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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5/5 Stars. Unique, but designed to fit together, Westwood Instruments’ Novella series provides diverse toolkits for scoring and songwriting.
Xvive’s ingenious modular interface puts foldback in the hands of the performers.
Baby Audio escalate their war on bad‑sounding audio with a vastly more powerful toolset for tackling problem resonances.
Part fuzz, part guitar synth, this quirky pedal was conceived with horror soundtracks in mind. But it’s not a one‑trick pony...
The Archaea Exchange falls into what is possibly the author's favourite category of modules: essentially very simple but with massive scope.
If you want proof that original independent music software is still flourishing, you need look no further than Stacks.
Updated for a new generation, can the microKORG2 live up to the huge success of its predecessor?
With four stages to play with, Articulate offers a little more control over the attack and sustain of a sound than most other transient shapers.
Network cables don’t have to carry digital traffic. As Ashton Research’s debut range capably demonstrates, they can also work well in the analogue domain.
In updating their classic M Series, Dynaudio Acoustics show that passive doesn’t need to mean low‑tech.
Lake People’s no‑nonsense, engineering‑led design of headphone amps has previously impressed us. Will the Dante version do likewise?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5/5 Stars. Void & Vista’s latest release is framed as “an exploration of experimental sounds, prepared instruments and extended techniques”.
Offering all the essential facilities at a lower price point, could the new Core version of the Tube Amp Expander be a serious competitor to the original flagship model?
This compact converter offers an easy way to expand your audio interface.
The Lublin 1957 from XAOC Devices is a two‑channel pingable VCA module with three ping responses and a gain limiting circuit to prevent peaking or distortion.
Soundpaint’s affordable wind instruments contain some hidden treasures.
Analogue Solutions’ AS500‑Seq is defiantly old‑school, eschewing quantisation, MIDI and encoders...
These modules pair a vintage‑style EQ with a clever saturation feature — and the stereo MQ‑2 also brings controllable compression to the table.
While most reverb devices and plug‑ins either take an algorithmic or convolution approach, Utopia can dynamically reshape the spectrum of the reverb to remove elements that might clash harmonically with the input signal.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Damage Guitars 2 continues the metal mayhem with a collection of leads, riffs, grooves, motifs, shredding licks and a host of extras.