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NI’s new instrument makes owning and playing a Stradivarius easier than ever before!
The evolution of convolution takes several steps forward with Inspired Acoustics’ awe‑inspiring immersive reverb.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. If you're used to old-school percussion libraries consisting largely of single hits on individual instruments, this collection may come as a pleasant surprise.
Audio Modeling's SWAM range delivers a complete suite of virtual solo woodwinds and strings.
If you’re looking for one reverb to rule them all, HOFA’s massively comprehensive plug‑in ticks all the boxes.
Spitfire Audio, the makers of such compositional tools as...
Rating: **** 5/5 Stars. Spitfire have taken a series of common instruments (such as strings, percussion and classical singers) and combined them in ethereal fashion with less commonly encountered sound sources...
Veteran software Mellotron specialists GForce have recreated the sounds of the earliest models with startling accuracy.
Cubase can help you write and arrange realistic string parts.
Does EastWest's new collection of impulse responses take reverb to the final frontier?
Version four of Garritan’s powerful orchestral sample-library, Garritan Personal Orchestra 4 (GPO4), has been...
We explore some alien soundscapes, courtesy of Slate + Ash's Auras...
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Powered by their multi-layered engine featuring sequencers, modulators and effects, Sonuscore give you Elysion, the 'hybrid twin' that does for synthetic sounds what The Orchestra does for the orchestra.
Pianoteq 7 introduces new morphing features and an even more realistic modelling engine.
Intel’s latest CPUs promise big performance gains. But can they topple AMD in our audio benchmarks?
Analog Strings is a Kontakt instrument based on a dual-layer playback engine fed from sound sources that include orchestral strings, vintage synths and other sound design elements.
Unless you are using pre–recorded loops, there is still the rather significant task of building convincing performances and arrangements. Ensemblia attempts to give the user a helping hand.
San Francisco-based Soundiron’s impressively esoteric product list includes a substantial collection of choir and solo...
Rhythmic Robot strike again — and with a double whammy! I can only speculate about this labour of love, feeding an Emulator II with a near–endless supply of 5.25–inch floppy disks.
We find out how well Steinberg's new take on the virtual orchestra conducts itself...