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Rating **** 4/5 Stars. As with its predecessor, this toolkit lacks any rhythmic material, but its astonishing sounds are well worth the entry price.
When weighted with sand (or another suitable mass) the bag can be placed across the legs of lightweight tripod stands to make them more stable and safer...
Rating **** 4/5 Stars. While Fractured Strings is a fully paid‑up product, Broken Strings is a freely available instrument, with samples drawn from a warped‑Nyckelharp and a broken Autoharp.
These RATIO tuners take the geared tuner concept further, in an attempt to solve an issue that most players probably don’t even recognise as being a problem...
Rating ***** 5/5 Stars. DEEP’s drum sample content and collections of drum pattern style sets give it a distinct musical flavour within the UJAM drum line‑up.
It’s a reflection of how big the modular‑synth world has grown, in the last decade or so, that a book like this can be commercially viable.
Some of Studio One’s hidden gems are now available to users of other DAWs.
The Vienna samplemeisters expand their Synchron orchestral range.
Newfangled Audio’s Generate soft synth embraces chaos...
We look at the Gospel according to Toontrack.
Does Roland’s software Juno 60 capture the magic of the original?
We kick off a new series profiling classic studio equipment with a look at a humble dynamic mic that has passed into Liverpudlian legend.
With plenty of performance features, DAW control and programmability, have M‑Audio found the winning formula in the MIDI controller‑keyboard game?
Embody offer a unique way to tailor their room‑simulation system to the individual user.
Korg’s SQ‑64 step sequencer bridges the gap between ‘deep’ and ‘hands‑on’.
Could this plug‑in be both the quickest and the best way to achieve a range of familiar vocal effects?
Cinematic Studio’s eagerly anticipated Woodwinds library does not disappoint.
Steinberg’s mobile DAW just got even better!