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Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Guitar Swell won’t replace your guitar player, but will help you produce a wide range of evocative sounds that might inspire you to take your compositions in a new direction.
Tascam have done far more than shrink the Model 24.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This library features a rich close‑miked viola with the same depth of colour, wealth of articulations, and seamless ornamental transitions found in previous Emotional releases.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This cool virtual instrument will appeal to those looking for something a little different to spice up their virtual percussion arsenal.
The processor that revolutionised home mastering is at last available in software form.
Are Audient’s minimalist EVOs smarter than the average audio interface?
The EQ2 offers quality graphic and parametric EQ, with full MIDI capabilities, all delivered in a robust pedal. What's not to like?
This characterful compressor offers a little more control than most ‘vibe machines’.
Given its excellent price tag, this Eurorack mixer has more features than it has any right to, and it doesn’t skimp on the sound quality.
The revised Klasik from Polish company APS offers exceptional performance at a remarkably low price.
Eventide’s Spring is a meticulous emulation of the kind of spring reverb you might find in a guitar combo, but with an extended parameter range for more creative uses.
AA’s latest cans employ their successful high‑excursion driver in a new on‑ear design.
Much more than a crossfade tool, Transmutator offers multiple blending modes that allow you to combine or transition between two signals in creative ways.
The SOS team pick their highlights from 2020's hardware and software launches.
Heavyocity’s commando percussion team return to the sound stage tooled up and looking for something to break.
This stereo analogue filter allows different filter modes for the left and right channels, and then messes with the dimensions of space by applying mid‑side processing afterwards.
Arturia add some helpful extras to their plug-in models of three classic analogue modulation effects.
GIK Acoustics' portable vocal screen is sensibly-priced and reduces room coloration, but without adding any obvious boxiness from the screen itself.
Avantone’s take on the classic NS‑10 is now available in powered form. We fire them up...
If you’ve not used this style of sequencer before, then it can be totally revolutionary in terms of what it does to your modular music-making.