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Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This sonic toolkit for the creation of New Age and meditation music ships with over 14GB of sample content.
FAST Reveal is designed to make it easy to tackle masking problems in your mix.
We look at the Gospel according to Toontrack.
Warm Audio’s revised take on the Neumann U87 gets even closer to the real thing.
Felt Instruments’ Blisko Collection offers a unique blend of sound and motion.
Arturia’s popular KeyStep controller goes up a gear.
We explore what’s new in Live 11’s Session View...
We take a look at what’s included with PreSonus Sphere.
We demonstrate how flexible Logic Pro’s MIDI processing tools can be.
Pop writing and production today is a team game, and the Monsters & Strangerz are one of the hottest teams around.
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.
Make your mixes easier by getting the bass sound right from the start.
Traditional hands‑on training gave Leslie Ann Jones the skills she needed to head up one of the world’s most advanced scoring stages.
Rating: ***** 4/5 Stars. This ROMpler-based instrument for Kontakt offers some fairly classic-sounding pianos and keyboards.
Based upon a sampled Steinway B-211, the addition of an impressive library of MIDI performances makes creating that perfect piano track as easy as possible.
Hone your listening skills, as we dissect more hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: Freya Ridings, Marshmello (feat. Bastille), Ella Mai, and our classic mix is Aretha Franklin ‘I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)’ (1967).
The latest version of Arturia’s celebrated V Collection bundle of modelled keyboards is out now. It...
Brighton‑based producer and multi‑instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett is in our Talkback hot seat.
Listing of all SOS February 2019 articles that hold associated media files for audio examples.
From sketches to final mixes, engineer Jonathan Low spent 2020 overseeing Taylor Swift’s hit lockdown albums folklore and evermore.