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Toontrack's virtual bass player should have its human counterparts very worried indeed.
The Tetrapad and its expander, the Tête, offer a wealth of functions based around four touch- and pressure-sensitive...
How close do these modelling plug‑ins sound to the real thing?
The Jupiter name comes loaded with expectation. Can Roland hit their own high standards?
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Density is designed primarily as a tool for media composers and includes sounds suitable for the epic/trailer genre.
Just over a year ago I reviewed the Tiptop Audio Z‑DSP NS. It's a large, flagship, modular effects processor...
Want your spine chilled and your nerves jangled? Sonokinetic are on the case.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Motion Keys is built upon a 12GB sample library derived exclusively from keyboard-based sound sources.
Does Modartt's Organteq do for the pipe organ what Pianoteq did for the piano?
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Mountain Girl brings the haunting sound of Balkan vocal styles to composers everywhere.
Is Native Instruments' virtual picked acoustic guitar better than the real thing?
Spitfire's latest Albion library heads north in search of new scoring directions.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This library focuses on orchestral trumpet and horn sections played with maximum resonance to recreate the rich, full-bodied tone heard in classic Hollywood 1990s film scores.
Ever wondered how a Leslie cabinet with four different speakers would sound?
These intriguing new mics are designed for loud environments where spill is an issue — so that's exactly where we tested them!
McDSP's software-configured analogue processing system now has new hardware and software options — and support for more DAWs.
This studio VCA compressor in a pedal employs THAT VCA chips like those found in, for example, modern iterations of the SSL bus compressor.
Made specifically for use with electric guitars, Teleport has been designed with an appropriate sensitivity and high input impedance.
JBL's compact new PA speaker is small and cheap — but sounds quite the opposite!
This book by Rolf-Dieter Leib and Ulf Kaiser is aimed at beginner to intermediate synth scholars and, in 300 pages, seeks to explain all technical aspects of modular synthesis.