SOUND ON SOUND
We test this affordable complete vocal PA you can carry from the car to the stage in one trip!
Sample libraries with virtual-instrument wrappers are nothing new, but Ueberschall's new Liquid Instruments have an extra twist — the front end is derived from Celemony's Melodyne, offering you complete freedom to change the pitch of the phrases in the library.
Tried and trusted design principles have been combined with quality components to create this new range of high-spec studio monitors.
Novation have an elegant solution to the tedium of configuring hardware controllers — the Remote 25SL can read your sequencer and automatically map plug-in instrument parameters to its controls. Is this the first 'intelligent' hardware control surface? We find out...
Loopmasters Afro-Latin Producer • Tekniks The Mixtape Toolkit • Big Fish Audio Funk City • Big Fish Audio Big Beat 2
VSL, makers of the world's largest orchestral library, have unveiled their next phase of development. SOS were at the launch...
We test another group of hot plug-ins: Universal Audio Dimension D • Ugo Rez, Texture, String Theory & Motion • TC Electronic VSS3 Stereo Source Reverb.
After more than five years, Yamaha's AW range boasts a new flagship, offering 24 tracks, a sweeter-sounding automated mixer, four multi-effects processors, and convenient USB file transfer. We find out if it has been worth the wait...
The celebrated mix-buss compressor design from the G-series consoles has been brought up to date using SSL's latest Superanalogue circuitry.
Audio Technica's new entry-level mic puts in a star performance.
We feature the Vox AC30 Custom Classic amp and Fliptone v.25 Instrument amp with Flat-panel Speaker — plus Big Bends Nut Sauce, tips on miking up your Line 6 POD, and more...
Can analogue summing really make a difference to the sound of digital mixes? We test out a new unit which offers this controversial facility.
Korg are continuing to develop virtual instruments based on their hardware synths. This time, it is 1988's classic M1 workstation that has been rendered in software...
It may look like just another mixer, but this new entry-level model from Alesis also packs in a hefty 18-input, stereo-output Firewire audio interface. Too good to be true?
Combining several types of sound generation in one instrument, Clavia's Nord Stage harks back to the multi-keyboards of the 1970s. Is it a funky revivalist, or should it be considered a thing of the past?
With version 2 of Guitar Rig, Native Instruments are taking amp modelling into the realms of modular synthesis.
Line 6's latest products are USB boxes that turn your computer into a low-latency amp-modelling system.
Where do you turn when you need a multicore that will handle two MIDI lines, a 9V DC power line and a voltage control line?
A recording amp with switchable choice of output tube type...