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Having acquired the Rockman brand, Jim Dunlop set about recreating the Rockman X100 under their MXR brand, but this time in pedal form and with a bypass footswitch.
JMG’s DarkFire is a harmonic enhancer plug-in whose added harmonics can be shaped by a three‑band EQ to put them precisely where you want them.
The puntastic name and the faders on the GUI of Poseidon leave you in little doubt as to which famous console EQ it sets out to emulate...
The Vector is a digital sequencer with eight parts assignable as quantised mono or chord tracks, or four‑lane drum tracks.
The Mutant Machine is a little like its own miniature modular system for drums...
They’ve engineered synth noises for years, but this is the California‑based company’s first foray into the guitar‑pedal world.
If you do much work with surround or immersive formats, upmixing and downmixing are a fact of life. With Penteo, good results needn’t cost the Earth.
Play All Day’s debut outing takes a novel approaching to hands‑on hardware control.
Pro Tools has many features aimed at post‑production. Could they help you with music production too?
Are mixers smart enough to know when a signal coming into the XLR is at line level and to adjust accordingly?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Emergence Audio apply their Infinite Motion Engine and Non‑Static Sampling technology to another member of the woodwind family in their latest release.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Dreamtonics add a further voice database expansion to their voice generator software.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Osmosis provides a wide palette of cello articulations and experimental techniques that help inspire creativity.
Sample Logic rev their own engine, cinematic style.
Love it or hate it, pitch‑correction is here to stay — but there can be way more to it than fixing performance issues.
With the introduction of CV Instrument, you can control your modular rig from Studio One!
Brothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke and Kyoto‑born Midori Hirano are Berlin‑based producers and artists who have come together to produce a collaborative album called Split Scale.
Are buzzes, hums and hisses ruining your guitar recordings? Here’s how to keep the noise to a minimum.
Audio examples to accompany the review of the Soyuz 011 FET (SDC) Small Diaphragm Capacitor microphone from SOS February 2025.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. A collection of cinematic‑flavoured drum and percussion sounds, aimed squarely at composers.