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Live 11’s new Take Lanes make creating a composite from alternative takes (comping) much easier for both MIDI and audio tracks.
This solid state homage to the line output section of The Big Trees is an amplifier‑style preamp pedal that can be set anywhere from a nicely rounded clean tone to convincing valve‑amp‑style break up.
It’s not often that we review guitars in SOS, but the Aum guitar, brainchild of Gareth Whittock, is such a radical departure...
SILO combines granular processing with reverb and pitch change, the aim being to produce complex, musically involving effects...
If you use software synthesizers, the name U‑he will be familiar to you. Their virtual synths —...
HOFA‑College’s tutors have analysed more than 21,000 student mixes. We draw on this practical experience to identify the five most common mistakes made by beginners.
We explore some ways in which creative mixing can add life to a sample‑based production.
Let Neuratron take the misery out of copying musical notation.
Orange Tree Sample’s Famous E may be the best virtual Rhodes you can buy.
Sounds of voices and strings rise from the chilly shores of the Baltic.
We explore some of the less common uses for Markers and Memory Locations.
Overloud’s plug‑in suite has everything you need to equip a virtual vintage studio.
Is high‑passing the Sides with an M‑S EQ. the same as making the bass mono, as with Boz’s Moongoose or...
Want the classic Lexicon sound without having to dive deep into the parameter pages? You’re in luck...
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.