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Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. 5Elements utilises almost 6GB of samples sourced from a selection of handmade Indian Instruments, but you won’t find any sitars, tamburas or tablas here...

In-depth Hands-on Test: SSL’s new control surface is very much the SSL of control surfaces — at an affordable price!

Sample Logic have teamed up with Red Room Audio to deliver a highly animated orchestral instrument.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars.  This Kontakt‑based library comes with the subtitle Boutique Cinematic Guitars, and that captures the essence of what’s provided in the 6GB of sample content.

Drum re‑synthesizer instrument or sound designer’s new best friend?

The concept behind the Soundevice Digital DIFIX is, as the name implies, to ‘fix’ your DI recordings.

The SWN is a fairly big 26HP six‑voice module capable of creating slowly morphing drones, polyphonic melodies, evolving sequences and a vast range of rich textures.

We put Mackie’s diminutive multimedia speakers to the test.

This delicious‑sounding phaser should fill the needs of funk players or those trying to replicate some of the gentler Jimi Hendrix and David Gilmour effects.

We check out IK’s latest refresh of their popular amp and effects modelling suite.

Qu‑Bit’s Surface collects together several percussive‑style physical modelling algorithms in one 10HP module.

For anyone with an interest in recording classical performances of any form — whether they’re an amateur, a professional or an academic — this is absolutely essential reading.

Synth fans of a certain age will remember the Keyfax books by musician and sometime SOS contributor Julian Colbeck. Back in...

Famed for its speed of use, the latest version of FL Studio is a highly sophisticated music production environment.

Euporie is a ‘multi‑response’ analogue low‑pass filter whose resonance can be switched between a Moog and Sallen & Key characteristic, giving you two filters for the price of one.

Earthworks throw their hat into the podcasting ring, with the chic and refined Icon Pro.

ZoneMatrix transforms a single instance of Kontakt into a multi‑instrument performance environment.

BDE, or Big Distortion Engine for long, is the second plug‑in from producer and engineer Jordan Swift.

The physics of loudspeakers have hardly changed in a century — but DSP and material science have come a long way, and the Pulsar takes full advantage.

The kings of dynamic convolution take on producer Mike Dean’s signal chain.