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Guitarist Steve Rothery is the longest‑serving member of prog‑rockers Marillion, and here he details how he got his favourite guitar sound on Marillion’s ‘The Great Escape’.
To perfect Olivia Dean’s intimate, personal sound world, the artist and producer/songwriter Zach Nahome decided to step outside the studio.
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. In the near term, my feeling is that the bigger transformation will be the quiet one wrought by assistive AI.
Alchemy’s granular engine is a sonic playground with infinite possibilities!
Brainworx’s latest offering is bx_pulsar, and just as bx_aura does for reverb, bx_pulsar can handle conventional delay treatments while also providing some very interesting creative options.
Mark J.T. Griffin’s unofficial biography stems from a long‑held interest in and passion for Vangelis’ work.
Warm Audio’s latest overdrive pedal is the Tube Squealer, and with its name and green case that slopes down slightly at the front, there’s little doubt as to what it’s based upon!
SED‑CSM, from Berlin’s Rides In The Storm, is a full analogue synth voice, with its own mixer, packed into a big‑but‑really‑very‑small 36HP.
SuperKar+ can produce up to 32 voices and has a bi‑timbral split to offer a Chord voice and a separate polyphonic Solo voice all within the one 12HP module.
Founder of Rides In The Storm, Berlin‑based Uwe George Giegler is a designer whose precocity is matched only by his talent at circuit building.
I have a tower PC that I had built specially for music production a few years ago. It used to work fine, but now I have to boot it twice before I can get Windows running.
I’ve had this a few of times now! I assume I need to do a better job of cleaning away all that detritus, but is there a ‘right’ way to do it?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Toontrack model a four‑string bass with two pairs of octave strings here and have used a Schecter model as the sound source for this library.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Sonora Cinematic Transfigured Orchestra Vol 2 delivers what are termed Hybrid Gestures, some of which have been treated using further processing or created from hybrids of other sounds.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Pocket Strings places only very modest demands on system resources, the idea being to provide a portable string instrument which packs a creative punch.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Vivaldi’s Solo Violin is a refined and expressive violin library that brings the essence of Baroque string writing into the modern producer’s toolkit.
Singular Sound’s revamped drum generator offers top‑quality sound and flexible playback options.
Spitfire have teamed up with composers the Newton Brothers to create something that’s truly terrifying.
We’re decades into the age of the DAW, but outboard channel strips remain popular for good reasons — and there are plenty to choose from.
This pedalboard‑friendly DI interface has been designed specifically for interfacing amp modellers and electronic instruments with PA and recording systems.