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Despite its decades‑old design, the Rogers LS5/9 can still compete with some of the best monitors around today. We put this faithful recreation to the test.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Scoring Acoustic Guitars is most likely to appeal to media composers or more experimental musicians. The quality of the sounds is most certainly big budget, but the price of access is not.
Rating: **** 4.5/5 Stars. A mouthwatering library of samples from reputedly the largest modular setup in Europe, owned by media composer Lester Barnes.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Electric Vintage has been created around samples and performances from a vintage ’50s Fender Telecaster.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. A new strings library from Vienna Symphonic Library comes as no great surprise, but this one’s a bit special.
With selectable analogue drive paths and a fast limiter, this box is designed to add controllable vibe and colour as you capture your analogue mix.
Sennheiser’s latest stage mic puts one of the company’s premium wireless capsules into a conventional wired mic format. We put it to the test.
With applications in stereo mixing and immersive surround, this plug‑in is not your typical auto‑panner!
With their impressive sound quality and adjustable attenuation, these off‑the‑peg earplugs give even custom‑moulded designs a run for their money.
If you prefer delays that are a little more ‘out there’, this one is aimed at you.
In Studio One, Layers are all about the wonderful world of managing multiple takes.
A renowned producer straddling the worlds of hip‑hop and alternative music, Nick Hook speaks to me from thespacepit, his...
Toontrack go fretless with a new EZbass expansion.
UJAM add some vintage vibes to their range of user‑friendly effects plug‑ins.
Hyperion is a hugely capable synthesizer with a complex modular heart.
When I was but a wee lad, I loved things that were noisy. But as I got older, I started to appreciate moments of calm...
by John Walden
These audio examples accompany my Cubase workshop in SOS August 2021, in which i...
At its core, the Recombination Engine is a triple analogue VCO module based around reissue Curtis CEM 3340 VCO chips. How it combines the three, however, is quite unique...
Maestro is a six‑channel clockable and programmable LFO with an unusual button‑based front panel.
The Filtamp 1006 is a combined 24dB ladder VCF and VCA module with two mixable audio inputs, three modulation inputs, filter resonance and amplifier gain with linear or exponential control.