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Live 8s Looper is ideal for quick, fun composition.
Here is a selection of audio files to accompany this month's Mix Rescue of Jay Menon's ballad 'Through My Eyes'. You can...

A new Prophet is always an exciting prospect, but the name certainly carries a weight of expectation. Can the latest model live up to its illustrious ancestry?

Are modern orchestral sample libraries really good enough to power an entire 90‑minute film score? Mark Russell found out the hard way...


Producer, singer/songwriter Trevor Horn has been at the forefront of technological innovation since his earliest work with The Buggles, in a career that has yielded countless classic singles and albums.

GForce’s acclaimed OSCar emulator gets a major update — and a deluxe control surface, in the shape of the Touch Digital IMP2C.

Vermona have beefed up their four-voice synth and the result is an analogue monster with the emphasis firmly on performance.

Six albums into their career, Glaswegian instrumental band Mogwai decided to take the producers chair themselves.

Tom Oberheim’s classic two-voice synth gets the Arturia treatment in the form of the SEM V.

Some record producers may object to having their work remixed, yet according to producer Charlie Mallozzi and Marco Sabiu — better known as the Rapino Brothers — remixing is an acceptable alternative way of viewing a track. Here they explain why there will always be room for the remixer...

Bedroom-based boffins the world over are manufacturing increasingly bizarre and esoteric synth modules. Come with us as we step away from the modular mainstream and take a look at some of the more eccentric Eurorack synth modules this weird world has to offer.

With an all-analogue signal path and total recall courtesy of digital control, this EQ promises a lot. Does it deliver?


Toontrack's DFH Superior received excellent reviews but perhaps didn't really make the impact that it deserved. Will the drums and cymbals of their new Superior Drummer 2.0 make a greater splash?

Just how do you mike up and multitrack a large ensemble in a less-than-ideal recording space, and then produce an effective mix of the resulting recording?

Optimising vocal recordings and tackling some troublesome mixes are on the agenda this month, as the SOS team travel to Paul Shepherd’s studio in Nottingham.

Though the Mac platform is often ahead of the PC for musical applications, it used to lag behind in the race to provide professional MP3 software. Simon Trask tries out a new program which aims to restore the balance.

Analogue drum machines are a rare species these days, so it’s a huge relief that a breeding pair have been found in Berlin...

The latest addition to Arturia’s Analog Experience series takes their hybrid software/hardware synth concept even further.