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Toontrack go fretless with a new EZbass expansion.

With their impressive sound quality and adjustable attenuation, these off‑the‑peg earplugs give even custom‑moulded designs a run for their money.

UJAM add some vintage vibes to their range of user‑friendly effects plug‑ins.

If you prefer delays that are a little more ‘out there’, this one is aimed at you.

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.

Overloud’s plug‑in suite has everything you need to equip a virtual vintage studio.

Sennheiser’s latest stage mic puts one of the company’s premium wireless capsules into a conventional wired mic format. We put it to the test.

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.

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.