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With its combination of creative and corrective tools, HitStrip puts all the channel processing you’ll ever need in one intuitive window.
Space Rider offers delay, reverb and chorus, but also takes the concept of ducking and expands it to full parameter modulation.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Tonal Drums is a Kontakt instrument that focuses on the pitch and tuning of a meticulously sampled Canopus Yaiba drum kit.
Torso’s ambitious ‘sculpting sampler’ may be a work in progress, but it promises to be something very special indeed.
We check out this budget‑friendly tape delay that aims to stay out of the way!
New from Patching Panda are a pair of 10HP percussion modules, each offering a wide range of traditional sounds, but with some serious experimental potential as well.
Shure’s latest USB mic features a built‑in audio interface.
Black Lion take a different approach with their latest audio interface.
Fancy some modulation from the Dark Side? The enticingly‑named Wobbler plug‑in was inspired by some of the effects that producer/engineer Alan Parsons used on Dark Side Of The Moon.
The latest amp‑simulation pedal from Origin Effects recreates another much‑loved classic tube guitar amp: the iconic Tweed 5E3 Fender Deluxe.
Fancy composing a symphony on your commute? Steinberg have got you...
Elektron’s updated FM groovebox is a powerhouse.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Native Instruments are back with another gorgeous piano library, and this time, it’s Claire — a Fazioli‑based Kontakt instrument.
KRK’s Rokit series just keeps getting better!
Morphor enter the BBD delay arena with the Echo, a 4096‑stage bucket‑brigade‑based module in capacious 20HP.
If the classic side‑chain pumping effect is your thing, Submerge can do that — and a whole lot more!
It’s more compact than its predecessors, but the newest processor in Boss’ venerable VG range might just be their best one yet.
Relab are the latest to offer a plug-in emulation of the TC System 6000 reverb.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Kepler is inspired by the sounds and moods of film scores such as Dune, Tenet and Oppenheimer, and the aim is to give you a complete scoring toolkit.
The ET‑5 may have its roots deep in electronic musical history, but it’s very much a modern instrument.