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Behringer's RD‑8 is a cut-price recreation of Roland's classic drum machine. We put it to the test...
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Behringer's RD‑8 is a cut-price recreation of Roland's classic drum machine. We put it to the test...

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Trident offers three analogue oscillators, but what's distinctive about it is the internal cross-modulation that can be set up between them.

Ocean Way’s newest studio speakers bring the sound of ’70s horn‑loaded mains to the nearfield monitor format.

We speak to Disclosure’s tech guru Guy Lawrence about their journey from bedroom production to working with top‑flight stars in some of the biggest studios in the world.

I picked up a couple of (large-diaphragm) AKG C214s, and they sound much more natural. Though that solved my problem, I'm still curious: is there such a thing as a 'soft'-sounding small-diaphragm condenser?

These two plug‑ins bring you the spirit of their 'unobtainium' hardware counterparts!

We explore DP’s tools for applying pitch-correction, harmony generation, pitch-quantising and pitch effects to vocal tracks.

To help you brush up on your listening skills, we examine the production of recent hits by Dominic Fike, Harry Styles, Joel Corry plus a 1995 classic mix from Oasis.

The updated FaderPort aims to give you comprehensive DAW control with a single fader.

A new Maschine Expansion created by one of New York hip hop’s biggest producers, Havoc. The samples were curated by Havoc himself and span his nearly 30-year career.

One look at the interface and you can tell right away that there's more to Hyperspace than your usual reverb plug-in...

Antelope Audio have turbo‑charged the desktop interface with their Synergy Core processing engine.

Frank Zappa was as fastidious about cataloguing his recordings as he was about making them. The task of mixing this enormous archive falls to one man...

Why ‘review’ a record company? Well, I believe that Opus 3 are unique in offering quarter-inch tape copies of their analogue tape masters.

To help you brush up on your listening skills, we examine the production of some recent hits from Logic, Ed Sheeran, Lil Nas X and Paul Hardcastle's No.1 sampling classic '19'.

MusicLab’s latest update makes RealGuitar more real than ever.

Drawmer's affordable EQ brings a '70s vibe to your studio.

Laptops, loops and layers are the tools that have taken Oliver Heldens to the forefront of the future house genre.

Reverb plug-ins can present a bewildering variety of parameters. We explain what they're there for, and how to put them to good use!