SOUND ON SOUND
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Scoring Acoustic Guitars is most likely to appeal to media composers or more experimental musicians. The quality of the sounds is most certainly big budget, but the price of access is not.
Orange Tree Sample’s Famous E may be the best virtual Rhodes you can buy.
This solid state homage to the line output section of The Big Trees is an amplifier‑style preamp pedal that can be set anywhere from a nicely rounded clean tone to convincing valve‑amp‑style break up.
Want the classic Lexicon sound without having to dive deep into the parameter pages? You’re in luck...
With selectable analogue drive paths and a fast limiter, this box is designed to add controllable vibe and colour as you capture your analogue mix.
It’s not often that we review guitars in SOS, but the Aum guitar, brainchild of Gareth Whittock, is such a radical departure...
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Electric Vintage has been created around samples and performances from a vintage ’50s Fender Telecaster.
Hotone believe you shouldn’t have to tweak a million virtual components to find a great guitar tone...
Baby Audio offer an intriguing take on frequency‑conscious dynamics processing.
SILO combines granular processing with reverb and pitch change, the aim being to produce complex, musically involving effects...
Struggling to drive multiple set of cans? DACS have an amp for that...
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. A new strings library from Vienna Symphonic Library comes as no great surprise, but this one’s a bit special.
We undertake the most comprehensive look at Apple’s M1‑based Macs from a musician and audio engineer’s perspective.
With applications in stereo mixing and immersive surround, this plug‑in is not your typical auto‑panner!
Sometimes the most familiar sounds are the hardest to get right...
If you use software synthesizers, the name U‑he will be familiar to you. Their virtual synths —...
Rating: **** 4.5/5 Stars. A mouthwatering library of samples from reputedly the largest modular setup in Europe, owned by media composer Lester Barnes.
Recreating a studio monitoring experience on headphones just got simpler, courtesy of dSONIQ’s improved Realphones.
Sounds of voices and strings rise from the chilly shores of the Baltic.
This box aims to provide all you need to use your pedals with a mixer or audio interface.