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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.

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

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

Magma offers a one‑stop shop for analogue‑style attitude and warmth.

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.

Rode’s new desktop mic gives you a broadcast‑ready sound out of the box.

Meet the Seaboard Rise 2, the squishy sequel to ROLI’s original expressive keyboard controller.

Roland’s SH‑4d is an ambitious amalgam of synth and sequencer in a battery‑powered box.

HALion is back, and it’s bigger, better and FMier than ever!

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. A huge 362GB collection of complex, playable, largely chromatic long drones created by Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Sound Dust’s Felt Dulcitone is a rather oddball instrument created by abusing a dulcitone portable keyboard.

This classy vocal mic brings studio sound quality to the stage.

Spitfire’s new symphonic double‑bill combines two complete orchestras and a host of extras.

FabFilter go back to their roots with a brand‑new version of their Twin soft synth.

Croatia‑based manufacturer DryBell’s Module 4 design aims to recreate the famous Orange Squeezer compressor.

Lauten Audio’s LA‑120 is not so much a pencil mic as an entire box of crayons!

Do you really need another filter plug‑in? We didn’t think so either — until we tried this one!

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This library is a collection of drum samples from seven‑time Grammy‑winning recording/mixing engineer John ‘Yosh’ Jaszcz, whose credits include George Clinton and Bootsy Collins.