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The latest update to PreSonus’ top of the line DAW introduces comprehensive Dolby Atmos integration and more besides.
Pro Tools users can now join the clip‑launching party without leaving the comfort of their favourite DAW.
Cubase Pro 13 may be light on headline features, but its raft of small improvements makes it a worthwhile upgrade.
The SOS editorial and authors team pick their standout highlights from the past year of hardware and software launches.
UFX Reverb might sound like a conventional effect but, fear not: Reverb can do conventional things, but there’s a good dollop of UJAM creativity here too!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. It makes sense that Heavyocity, devotees of dangerous, destructive, distorted brain‑crushing timbres, turn their attention to heavy guitar.
Arturia have designed the AudioFuse 16Rig specifically to cater for electronic musicians. What does it offer that other interfaces don’t?
Drift is a plug‑in that embraces all those things that old‑school engineers used to hate about analogue tape!
There’s something for everyone in beyerdynamic’s classic M Series microphone range.
These remarkably affordable speakers raise the bar for ultra‑compact monitoring.
Akai’s APC64 is much more than just a successor to the APC40 — in fact, it’s much more than just an Ableton controller...
Tonemission, founded by John Petrucci, guitarist and founding member of prog metal band Dream Theater, recently released a...
Thanks to its built‑in microphones, this unique IEM system lets you bring the outside world into your monitor mix.
Modartt revisit the richly complex world of the pipe organ, reducing one of the world’s largest instruments to a mere 30MB.
LANDR’s automated mastering service just got better... and it no longer requires a connection to the cloud.
The cab‑modelling pioneers take on the rest of the chain, right from the preamp input to the mics.
The green front panel of Antelope’s first monitor speaker conceals an unusual design approach.
Strymon’s Brig is a digital pedal that runs analogue ‘bucket brigade’ delay emulations, and offers three switchable delay voicings.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. This new Kontakt instrument started life as a viola da gamba; a string instrument from the Baroque era, which is generally regarded as the precursor to the cello.
Can Zoom’s new 32‑bit floating‑point interface banish clipping forever?