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Rating: ***** 4.5/5 Stars. Oceania II is not an upgrade, but a newly recorded library with additional features. Its remit is exactly the same: full‑on Mens’ and Womens’ choir performances.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Guitar Swell won’t replace your guitar player, but will help you produce a wide range of evocative sounds that might inspire you to take your compositions in a new direction.
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This cool virtual instrument will appeal to those looking for something a little different to spice up their virtual percussion arsenal.
SoundMorph’s Dust takes an interplanetary approach to granular resynthesis.
Analog Delay has been a stock Studio One plug‑in since the beginning, pumping out cool vintage echoes with its previously vanilla GUI, but with v5 it received a bit of an interface upgrade.
Tascam have done far more than shrink the Model 24.
The processor that revolutionised home mastering is at last available in software form.
The biggest investment most studios make is in bricks and mortar... and plasterboard... and Rockwool. But is there another way?
Toontrack recapture the drums of rock’s golden age with help from legendary producer Eddie Kramer.
Waves breathe a little freshness into the familiar.
UDO Audio’s highly anticipated debut instrument is a synthesizer with a sound all of its own.
The hugely successful teleconferencing platform Zoom has had some small but significant updates, making it even more useful to musicians in lockdown.
The following Audio examples accompany our Cubase: String Theory Part 2 workshop article.
The MP3 audio files on this page accompany the review of the Mojave MA-50 in SOS December 2020.
Apple recently announced a transition in the Mac’s hardware architecture that promises to be the most significant in the product’s history. But how will this affect musicians and audio engineers?
Compression in mastering is different — both the goals and the methods. Mastering engineer Ian Shepherd describes three different mastering compression techniques — how and when to use them, and why the goal is to be invisible.
The SOS team pick their highlights from 2020's hardware and software launches.
If you’ve not used this style of sequencer before, then it can be totally revolutionary in terms of what it does to your modular music-making.
Mat Gendreau shares his 5 top tips for using parallel processing techniques on voice, bass and drums.
Adam Shepard of ADAM chats to Sam Inglis about the distinctive technology at the heart of ADAM's loudspeakers and explains how they've achieved so much in a mere five years!