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Pausing by the buffet, we check out what Propellerhead have brought to the Rack Extension party.

As they celebrate 20 years in the business, sample library pioneers EastWest are on the verge of relaunching LA's legendary United-Western studio complex. They've also developed an innovative sample-playback engine to power their next generation of virtual instruments.

Offering built-in mixing facilities and DSP functionality, there’s more to these self-powered speakers than meets the eye.

With the ability to blend between valve and solid-state circuitry, Lewitt’s LCT940 is a genuinely innovative and versatile microphone.

New products to be released before the end of 2007: Ableton Live 7, several new add-on instruments, and Ableton Suite...

The original VOGAD compressors may not have been developed with music in mind, but listening to this one you wouldn’t know that!

Waves’ latest equaliser can be five different virtual analogue designs at once — and it has some other neat tricks up its sleeve too.

Put your own stamp on synthesized sounds with Logic Pro's powerful sound-modelling system, Sculpture.

Put together quick and easy drum tracks with Sonar 8.5s Session Drummer 3.

This month, Session Notes goes upmarket, giving readers a chance to get their mitts on a professional multitrack session from the world's most famous studio.

Our august Editor In Chief, Paul White, wonders why synth presets sound good when auditioned on their own but don't cut the mustard in a song arrangement...

Royer Labs have created the worlds only stereo ribbon microphone that has active, valve-powered electronics. So what does it have to offer that conventional ribbon mics dont?


In the P67, Peluso have sought to recreate a bit of Neumann history. Does it offer the same sound that made the U67 a classic?


Heavyocity's Evolve is packed full of all kinds of high-quality sonic weirdness and looks set to become a popular tool for anyone involved in soundtrack work.

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

Hank Shocklees 1988 collaboration with Public Enemy brought a new aggression to hip-hop — both sonically and politically...