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When is a piano not a piano? When it’s been ‘augmented’ by Arturia...

With its astonishing array of new and cherished effects, Eventide’s ‘everything pedal’ should appeal to guitarists, synth heads and mix engineers alike.

If you are working in genres such as lounge, hip‑hop, downtempo or lo‑fi, Tympo's  ‘performative drum instrument’ will be right up your street.

Cherry Audio recreate that rarest of beasts, the Elka Synthex.

Golden Age deem their take on Telefunken’s classic mic so accurate, they even gave it the same name.

Neumann’s first ever pre‑polarised mic is designed to reach the parts where their other models won’t go!

Designed from the ground up for processing multi‑channel Atmos sources, Spherix boasts some innovative and useful features.

Paul White and Hugh Robjohns pick their hardware and software highlights from the last 12 months, plus feature some late arrivals.

Waves have a knack of making sophisticated plug‑ins easy to use, and this one is no exception.

Bucket‑brigade delay pedals are making something of a comeback, and it’s almost certainly due to the unique way in which their delays degrade as they repeat...

Spitfire Audio launch their new flagship series with an intensively‑miked drum collection.

Rating **** 4/5 Stars. If you need something to help you cook up dynamic drones, creepy cues or surreal synths, Timedrops has a lot to offer.

Sonicware’s Bass & Beats has a lot to offer, but you’ll have to work hard to get it.

The MBox is back and it’s much better and certainly much bigger than it was before.

George Massenburg’s new plug‑in promises a different approach to dynamic control.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Vocalise 3 provides 7GB of vocal‑inspired sample data and runs in a dedicated front‑end within Kontakt 6.7.1.

Tonex lets you capture and share the sound of your guitar amps, pedals and miking setups.

Warmdrive replicates the sound of the original, ‘classic’ version of the pedal design that helped create the whole ‘Dumble‑in‑a‑box’ concept.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Sampleson describe their latest release, Alienize, as a cinematic sci‑fi instrument with mouse gesture‑based modulation.

Removing ‘baked in’ room sound is no longer the stuff of dreams, and this clever plug‑in does it better than most.