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Love stompboxes but find pedal compressors frustratingly untweakable? This one’s designed with you in mind...


Nektar keep doing what they do best: making solid, capable, no‑nonsense MIDI controllers.

PreSonus’s Revelator io24 is packed with useful features for podcasters, streamers and even common‑or‑garden recording musicians.

Clean‑gain ‘booster’ preamps are popular accessories for ribbon and moving‑coil dynamic mics — but what if that gain were deliberately made more characterful?

Mojave’s new valve mic pays tribute to a neglected classic.

Slate have taken the famous OTT effect and added a whole load more control, creating a unique dynamics processor.

We talk you through the various metering options available in Studio One.

Georgia‑born, Nashville‑based Niko Moon gets the 10-question treatment...

Novation’s Circuit Rhythm offers portable immediacy and a surprising amount of depth.

Korg add more instruments to their growing stable of software classics.

His remarkable versatility has made Federico Vindver the go‑to collaborator for Timbaland, Kanye West, Coldplay and more.


The music of Priya Ragu is, on the surface, a solo project. However, a closer look at the Sri Lankan Tamil‑Swiss artist’s work reveals a close songwriting and production partnership with her brother, Japhna Gold.

We all know you can score a movie or compose a symphony from the comfort of your DAW, but what can orchestral sample libraries do for other genres of music?

Can a solid‑state microphone really give you the sound of Sony’s classic valve C800G?

Reunited with the much‑loved Alice brand after many years, has Ted Fletcher managed to breathe new life into this classic compact mixer?

Dynamics processing is a core mixing technique, but it’s often misunderstood. We explain how to make a compressor do what you want it to!

The WaveLab department at Steinberg have been very busy indeed...

Imagine uses physical modelling to let you create any acoustic instrument you can, er, imagine.