Article section list

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!

While UltraTap can go some way towards replicating a multi‑head tape echo machine, it also excels at artificial double-tracking, dreamy ambient delays, vocal thickening and gentle tremolo...

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Rhythmus is built from over 2.5GB of samples taken from a variety of ‘found’ percussion.

With 32‑bit recording, six inputs and a stereo mix facility, as well as impressive battery life, this versatile compact recorder should have wide appeal.

Tegeler add convenient plug‑in remote control to one of their best‑selling processors.

RME’s PCIe audio interface card gets a major overhaul.

Created in partnership with Empirical Labs, these two emulations form a characterful yet capable channel strip.

The JD‑800 is the latest instrument to join the Roland Cloud.

Mackie’s latest cans prove themselves to be serious monitoring tools.

Roland’s venerable SPD range just keeps getting better...

Fideleater is a lo‑fi chorus, vibrato and delay pedal whose six controls can be used to access a huge palette of sounds.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars.Terracotta is based around samples taken from recordings of 25 different Terracotta pots, divided into four round‑robin and four velocity layers.

If you’re looking for one reverb to rule them all, HOFA’s massively comprehensive plug‑in ticks all the boxes.

Given the significant cost of this pedal, it’s probably going to appeal mainly to those who already know what to expect from it, though the limited production run may also make it of interest to collectors.

Almost half a century after its initial release, Yamaha’s classic three‑way monitor remains an impressive speaker, and it pioneered the use of diaphragm materials that are still considered cutting‑edge today.

So far, monitor and headphone calibration systems have targeted music makers exclusively. Sonarworks’ SoundID aims to solve the problem of mix translation from the consumer end too.

Mastering engineer Ian Shepherd’s first plug‑in has been completely redesigned — with both mastering and mixing in mind.