SOUND ON SOUND
ROLI’s luminous keyboard offers MPE control and a very colourful way of working.
We put AA’s new open-backed mixing and mastering headphones to the test.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. These high-quality WAV samples would most certainly feel at home dropped into a high‑end blockbuster movie, action trailer, or AAA video game.
M‑Audio’s 88‑note controller significantly improves its bang‑per‑buck ratio.
Novation’s Circuit Tracks is a portable musical playground.
If vintage samplers butter your muffin, Isla Instruments have got a full afternoon tea for you.
Antelope condense their considerable know‑how into an affordable, bus‑powered interface.
This book is essentially an autobiography of the author's experiences in buying and selling all manner of vintage pro‑audio equipment, combined with some fascinating history about the leading manufacturers and their products...
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Performance Samples’ description of Vista as a ‘larger‑than‑life’ chamber ensemble aptly describes this beautiful‑sounding string library.
Think you’ve heard everything a compressor can do? It might be time to think again...
This powerful digital stompbox is far more than just a distortion pedal...
Detroit microphone maker Deni Mesanovic applies his considerable knowledge of transducers to produce an impressive debut studio speaker.
We try out the second coming of MXL’s affordable valve mic. Was it worth the wait?
UA have long been among the best developers of analogue‑modelling software, so the world is expecting great things of these little boxes. Do they deliver the goods?
“I believe both producing and engineering are about serving the artist’s needs to help them accomplish their goals,” writes...
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.