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The reborn Rhodes piano is a stunning showcase for British manufacturing.

Avantone’s newest monitors revive a classic speaker brand and channel the ’70s West Coast studio sound.

Bite Harder combines push‑pull EQ with familiar bit‑crushing and sample‑rate reduction functions, though there are further controls to facilitate more creative audio destruction. 

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Nova is a sample‑based virtual instrument built around a collection of textures, pads and soundscapes.

Groovesetter’s developers claim that it offers low‑latency, multitrack collaboration between multiple people in different locations. Does it live up to its promise?

The MPC Studio provides an affordable middle ground between Akai’s software and hardware MPCs.

This expansion pack, which has been approved by the Hendrix estate, requires Positive Grid’s Bias 2 FX plug‑in or Spark amp to run and adds the extra pedal and amp models needed to recreate Jimi's classic sounds.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. As a type of tuned percussion, Hang Drum's roots in the steel drums of the Caribbean are obvious but, in the right hands, the sound can be both beautiful and hypnotic.

The 67A adds some useful features to a nice Altec valve preamp emulation.

Mojave’s new valve mic pays tribute to a neglected classic.

Derived from the custom valve console in Brittany’s famous Kerwax studio, the Replica harks back to a bygone age.

There are now two ways to buy Reason, but whichever you choose, v12 is an essential upgrade.

Apple’s most powerful laptop computer ever has been explicitly designed with music in mind.

This inexpensive Stardust 201 plug‑in borrows features from the original Roland RE‑201 and RE‑301 hardware, including the chorus section and spring reverb.

Another of Eventide’s excellent plug‑ins makes the transition to the popular pedal format.

DP11 might not be any louder than DP10, but it’s got plenty more to offer.

Slate have taken the famous OTT effect and added a whole load more control, creating a unique dynamics processor.

The masters of convolution have finally produced a reverb, but it’s far from being a straightforward convolution reverb.

SSL Native X‑Echo is a tape‑echo plug‑in that’s inspired by the sound of early hardware units, not least the Echoplex...

The latest lavish offering from Bjooks collects some of the world’s rarest and most desirable synths between its covers.