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Steve Hackett rose to fame as guitarist with prog‑rock legends Genesis, but his sonic calling card is a guitar tone he created in 1979 on his album Spectral Mornings.
For as long as I can remember, British musicians have been indignantly complaining about the high prices of gear imported from the USA...
There are quite a few plug‑ins that emulate the famous Fairchild 660 and 670 compressors, but KIT Plugins have based theirs on specific units in John McBride’s Blackbird Studios in Nashville.
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.
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.
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.
Piano lessons from seven years of age and pipe organ fascination from the age of nine began a passion for keyboards. Now, aged 82, I love my keyboards.
Divisimate 2 brings a host of improvements and new features to Nextmidi’s orchestration software.
In this Case Study, we look at two very different users who have adapted to the immersive audio ecosystem within the Antelope Galaxy interface line‑up.