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This great‑sounding processor does more than make your music loud — but does it do enough?
Thomas McRocklin’s first foray into the world of guitar rig emulations treads a slightly different path from the competition.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Sam Thomas is a composer, producer and session musician who describes his debut solo plug‑in as being somewhere between a synth, guitar and organ.
The latest pedal from Warm Audio pays homage to one of the all‑time pedalboard favourites, the Fulltone OCD pedal.
KMI’s latest keyboards offer MPE control in compact and colourful packages.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Bunker Samples return with their new library Bunker Perc, recorded in the bomb shelter that gives the company their name.
Mesanovic’s three‑way speaker offers outstanding performance, wireless connectivity — and a cardioid bass response.
Rating 4.5/5 Stars. UK producer Trevor Horn was a dominant force in 1980s pop, and this collaboration with Spitfire Audio gives users instant access to the maestro’s sound world.
Three years ago, HEDD Audio developed the world’s first AMT‑based headphones — and before anyone else has had time to catch up, they’ve now replaced them with the second generation.
Mic preamps and DIs all sound the same, right? Nope!
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Jade Evolutions can be regarded as a partner product to Strezov’s existing Jade Orchestra, but with all‑new content and a substantially different instrument construct.
Shure’s classic mic celebrates a milestone birthday with the addition of a built‑in preamp. We test the new SM7dB and explore its fascinating history.
With the UNO Synth Pro X, IK have upped their synth game and targeted ‘serious’ synthesists.
It’s nearly half a century since the first guitar synth became available commercially — and, boy, have they come on a long way since then!
Scatter is a very simple‑to‑use granular delay that generates up to 64 grains with randomised positions, with stereo placement based around a fixed one‑second recording buffer.
There are now some impressive offline source separation tools — but this one works in real time!
Tired of keyboards? The Digit Music CMPSR might be the MIDI controller for you...
Sonuscore combine organic percussion sounds with a creative sequencing engine.
Arturia have another classic on their long list of software synths: a special little squelchy box.