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Rating **** 4/5 Stars. While Fractured Strings is a fully paid‑up product, Broken Strings is a freely available instrument, with samples drawn from a warped‑Nyckelharp and a broken Autoharp.
Rating **** 4/5 Stars. Auddict are back with a further library that uses the PercX engine: Raw Drum Kits, aimed more at songwriter/producer types.
Rating **** 4/5 Stars. As with its predecessor, this toolkit lacks any rhythmic material, but its astonishing sounds are well worth the entry price.
Rating ***** 5/5 Stars. DEEP’s drum sample content and collections of drum pattern style sets give it a distinct musical flavour within the UJAM drum line‑up.
Black Corporation have taken a single monophonic voice from Deckard’s Dream, made a few tweaks and packaged it into Eurorack format.
This may offend certain modular enthusiasts, but I’m a big believer in restriction aiding creativity. Eurorack designers...
I don’t think I’ve ever been as pleasantly surprised by a module as much as I have with the Data Bender...
Audio examples to accompany our May 2021 review of the Warm Audio WA-87 R2 capacitor mic.
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Audio files to accompany SOS May 2021's Saturation Stratgeies workshop.
Embody offer a unique way to tailor their room‑simulation system to the individual user.
Musician and Technologist Tim Exile chats to Caro C about the creation of the Endlesss project and the benefits of immersive, collaborative music creation in real-time.
Eddie Bazil of Samplecraze explores the various ways that delay effects can be used and applies these techniques to a finished composition.
Innovative MIDI plug-in boasts intelligent, scale-aware pitch-bending, micro-tuning options and an 'MPE Upscale' mode.
New plug-in combines EQ, resonance suppression and spectral compression techniques.
New MkV MIDI keyboards boast Smart Scale and Smart Chord features, plus arpeggiator, note repeat and more.
Sequential founder Dave Smith has described the move as "a perfect cultural and technological fit".
Flagship orchestral library expanded, and now includes eight individual mic signals plus three mixes engineered by score mixer Jake Jackson.
New library comprises choir, chamber orchestra and organs, captured in the mediaeval Church of Niguliste, Estonia.
M1-equipped iMac features a six-speaker Dolby Atmos array, while the new iPad Pro boasts Thunderbolt connectivity.