SOUND ON SOUND
The M3 workstation, already a powerful beast, has gained impressive new features and an Xpanded name tag. Is it now top of its class?
Peter Siedlaczek's Advanced Orchestra was the must-have orchestral library for several years and set new standards for the...
Can condenser mics at this price really be worthy of a name like AKG? Actually, it seems they can...
Prominy have put 64 Gigabytes of lovingly sampled Stratocaster into their SC instrument. That's a lot of Stratocaster — so does the sonic end justify the means?
Discovery Sound are a Japanese company specialising in ethnic sounds, and in particular the traditional music of Asia. This collection focuses on the koto — the national instrument of Japan.
Need more PC power? Then meet the latest offering from Scan — and the fastest PC reviewed in SOS to date.
Getting the balance right between the benefits and disadvantages of ported and non-ported speaker designs is a tricky job, and K+H do it better than most with this ported model.
This new brand by revered high-end equipment manufacturers API is much more affordable than their established lines. So there must be a catch, right?
As well as the new user interface, MIDI and score editors described in Part 1 of our review, Pro Tools 8 offers an impressive collection of instruments and plug-ins, new ways of working with Playlists, and even the option of surround mixing in LE.
This affordable range of digital guitar and bass effects pedals offers good, dependable results — and there are a few hidden gems as well. Read on...
The successor to G-Forces popular M-Tron instrument brings dual layers and subtractive synthesis to the Mellotron party — but also manages to keep authenticity firmly in mind...
Roland's Fantom workstation reaches its fourth generation with the 'G' series. So just how great is the Fantom family's great-grandchild?
These compact, lightweight mixers are designed with live DJ-style performance in mind, but with an audio interface on board, there's plenty of flexibility when it comes to recording too.
Ian Boddy has been involved in the experimental electronic music scene for 25 years, and SOS readers will doubtless be...
Since we first reviewed Cockos' shareware Reaper multitrack recording package, it has undergone hundreds of improvements — but the bargain asking price has barely changed.
Steinberg's CC121 controller is, as you might expect, designed to work seamlessly with their DAW software — so is this the perfect companion to Cubase and Nuendo?
The Mac's most comprehensive stereo editor has just gained a whole new set of features...
The new audio interface from Focusrite offers an awful lot, for an awful lot less than you'd think. Let's find out what it can do...
Regular readers will know that our Technical Editor isn't prone to excessive use of hyperbole — so when he calls a product "awesome", "stunning" and "sublime", it's probably time to sit up and take notice...
More and more musicians are experimenting with the sounds of 'world' instruments — so is Best Service's Ethno World 4 Professional a one-stop-shop for all your virtual ethnic-instrument needs?