2023 Gear Of The Year!
The SOS team pick their highlights from the past year of hardware and software launches.
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The SOS team pick their highlights from the past year of hardware and software launches.
Arturia’s latest offering bundles together a collection of hardware and software aimed at musicians, producers and content creators looking for an all-in-one recording solution.
Lynx talk us through the free firmware upgrade that is now available for the Aurora (n) which enables Dolby Atmos Compatibility.
Universal Audio Apollo x16 users now have the ability to monitor a range of immersive playback formats including Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D, Sony 360 Reality Audio and more.
Arturia have released the MiniFreak hybrid polyphonic synthesizer, MiniFuse 4 audio interface, MiniLab 3 MIDI controller, and Augmented Grand Piano, a software instrument that combines high-quality piano samples with modern synth engines.
Symbolic Sound say the Pacamara Ristretto delivers on average a 2.5 times jump in performance, more connectivity options and seamless integration with audio and MIDI applications.
Genelec's speaker calibration software is now the first in the world to provide a complete acoustical room analysis.
If you need more audio interfacing, do you really have to trash an interface that's otherwise perfectly satisfactory and buy a bigger one? Maybe not, as ways of using several smaller interfaces together are becoming easier to find.
The new PC interfacing standards of USB and Firewire brought with them the promise of 'hot-plugging' and easy interconnection. But some musicians have discovered, to their cost, that the reality doesn't always live up to the promise. We investigate...
If you are tempted to go and make a cup of tea in the gap between pressing a note on your keyboard and hearing it play on your soft synth, you need help! Read on...
An hour spent fine-tuning the performance of your soundcard can yield permanent improvements in background noise, distortion levels and frequency response.