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Extinct Audio bring some fresh activity to their popular ribbon design!

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Sandstorm provides an easy‑to‑use platform for creating evolving soundscapes and sonic textures.

If you want to add a little weight to your live vocal sound, A‑T’s new handheld dynamic mic could be just the ticket.

Sofia is an oscillator that synthesizes vocal‑like formants without filtering, achieved by superimposing decaying sinusoidal tones onto each individual cycle of a fundamental base waveform.

Sonicware’s SmplTrek packs an ambitious sampler, sequencer and recorder into a single portable box.

Could a CSD desk form the heart of your studio?

The Tonex Pedal makes IK’s powerful amp‑capture technology available in a standalone hardware unit.

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. The instrument allows users to pick any two clarinet textures from a library of 15 available textures, blending and shaping them with onboard tools.

There’s more to this desktop preamp than turning up your mic!

Neumann continue to set new standards in compact nearfield monitoring.

Sony’s first open‑backed headphones offer an intriguing alternative to the established classics in the field.

Perkons is the Latvian name for the Baltic god of thunder, a fitting name for a thunderous drum machine.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. The second instalment in Spitfire’s new modular series is a direct continuation of the first.

We begin an in‑depth, two‑part examination of Apple’s M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, and the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini computers that house them.

Controllable carnage is the name of the game, but the Punishr can do warmth and subtlety too!

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. If you have a passion for composing for film/TV contexts, or for more experimental song‑based production, then Void & Vista Strands may be worth auditioning.

These audio examples accompany the review of the Electric & Company EC5B Limiting Amplifier in the SOS May 2023 issue.

KIT’s latest collaboration with Blackbird Studio brings us their take on the Neve 1073.

Yamaha’s new all‑in‑one speaker packs a lot of sound into a portable package.

This isn’t the first virtual Leslie speaker plug‑in — but it might just be the best one yet!