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Audio examples to accompany the review of the Soyuz 011 FET (SDC) Small Diaphragm Capacitor microphone from SOS February 2025.
Virtuoso pianist Rogét Chahayed has found a unique niche as a classically trained hip‑hop producer.
Piano lessons from seven years of age and pipe organ fascination from the age of nine began a passion for keyboards. Now, aged 82, I love my keyboards.
Tom Rhea’s colourful, comprehensive and insightful history of electrical and electronic music machines includes CDs with audio examples.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Emergence Audio apply their Infinite Motion Engine and Non‑Static Sampling technology to another member of the woodwind family in their latest release.
Soyuz’s latest pencil mic is as easy on the ear as it is on the eye!
Live 12’s new Tunings system is your invitation to explore alternative tunings and microtones.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Dreamtonics add a further voice database expansion to their voice generator software.
With polyphonic aftertouch, MPE and MIDI 2.0, Korg’s Keystage has a lot to offer.
Brothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke and Kyoto‑born Midori Hirano are Berlin‑based producers and artists who have come together to produce a collaborative album called Split Scale.
Love it or hate it, pitch‑correction is here to stay — but there can be way more to it than fixing performance issues.
The Vector is a digital sequencer with eight parts assignable as quantised mono or chord tracks, or four‑lane drum tracks.
Divisimate 2 brings a host of improvements and new features to Nextmidi’s orchestration software.
Yamaha’s FGDP‑50 drum pad is designed explicitly for the digital percussionist.
Novation’s updated Launchkey range introduces improved creative features and better DAW integration.
V‑Rack packs the Rhodes MK8 preamp and effects section into a plug‑in.
Friends is the first sample library created entirely by Song Athletics, and brings together a comprehensive selection of commonly used instruments with the aim of creating a go-to ‘studio essentials’ sample library.
Biverb is a dual reverb plug‑in that supports all the usual plug‑in formats on macOS and Windows platforms.
If you’ve never heard of the Datamix console, that wouldn’t surprise me — relatively few were made — but...
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. This library is Christian Henson’s attempt to combine the Yorkshire brass tradition with the sound of his favourite film noir soundtracks.