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There are times when a mix engineer needs to do more than just mixing — even if that takes you out of your comfort zone!
I record spoken‑word narration, close‑miked in a small room, with basic room treatment. While I have no noise‑floor problems, I’ve noticed that some of my mics have a lot less noise than others...
Is Roland’s new flagship TD‑50KV2 the best electronic drum kit you can buy?
ROLI’s Equator2 is less an update than a full rebuild.
Rating: 4/5 Stars. As the title suggests, the main instrument is a very decent Musser M250 concert marimba sampled at multiple dynamics over its full A2‑C7 range.
Rating: 4/5 Stars. If you need keyboard‑based parts but don’t have keyboard‑based skills (or a budget to hire them), EZkeys is a seriously good tool.
Rating: 4/5 Stars. Emerge is a huge collection of overtly processed sounds divided into categories and then subcategories for use in contemporary soundtrack composition.
This stereo/surround frequency‑based panner is dripping with creative potential.
Chopped‑up loops are at the heart of many genres of music. There’s never been a better time to get hands‑on with sliced samples.
Soniccouture’s new library steps into a strange new world of sci‑fi and horror.
Manipulate the timing of MIDI and audio with Studio One’s Tempo Track.
Now a globetrotting producer and DJ, Badsista's work with artists like Lei Di Dai Linn da Quebrada and the Multishow Brazilian Music Award winner Jup do Bairro has seen her grow into one of Brazil’s most eminent electronic music producers.
UJAM’s Groovemate ONE is a one‑stop shop for pop percussion.
The lovely thing about electric guitars is that you can tweak them to your own preferences in terms of both how they feel to play and in what features you add to them.
Can a solid‑state microphone really give you the sound of Sony’s classic valve C800G?
Introduce some creative weirdness with MIDI inversion.
Picnic Basket contains a sequencer, Pluck physical modelling unit, a CEM3340 VCO, multimode filter, kick, reverb, ADSR envelope and random voltage generator in its 42hp-capacity Lunchbox casing.
Interesting and unique synthesis techniques seem to be plentiful of late, and the E‑RM Polygogo is no exception. It’s...
Here the audio files that accompany the SOS October 2021 Cubase workshop.
These audio examples accompany the Mix Rescue feature in Sound On Sound October 2021.