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We get hands-on with the most unusual device yet to spring forth from the IGS workshop.
In a world of reissues and recreations, the Hypersynth Xenophone is resolutely doing its own thing.
The success of Deftones’ Gore album is reward for the band’s restless experimentation — and for the work of engineer, producer and mixer Matt Hyde.
The K-Mix squeezes a mixer, an audio interface and a MIDI controller into one very tactile box.
SOS has been reviewing modular systems since the 1990s, but this month seems like the right time to embark on a regular column covering this ever-expanding, highly popular sector.
If you’re feeling limited by your existing limiter, perhaps DMG Audio have the answer?
John Carpenter is not only a cult movie-maker, but also a pioneering electronic composer. John, his son Cody and collaborators Alan Howarth and Daniel Davies explain how it’s all possible.
We explore some useful functionality in Ableton Live’s often-overlooked Arrangement page.
Tighten up your timing without sounding robotic, using Logic’s quantisation features.
Designed in collaboration with SpaceHardware, the Quadnic packs four digital oscillators into an impressively compact 12hp...
For many, an analogue synthesizer is defined by its low-pass filter. There have been numerous notable examples of this,...
Mutable Instruments’ Rings introduces the idea of virtual strings to generate its own flavour of polyphony.
Unlike the majority of noiseless single-coil designs, Quet Coil utilises side-by-side coils, rather than the commonly favoured stacked-coil configuration.
How can we expect people to value music when we don’t keep track of who owns it?
Sometimes a make-or-break opportunity can make you and break you...
The Southern Wild: our engineer reminds us that you don’t have to cram every mic signal into your mix just because it’s available.
Can a tiny box like this really deliver the classic vari-mu sound for so little money?
I Wish is a granular synthesis plug-in that uses incoming MIDI notes to play very short loops of audio.
Waves took on the challenge of modelling four modified EMT 140 plates used at Abbey Road Studios on countless classic recordings. Did they succeed?
B-Scanner replicates the vibrato and offers far more scope to create effects outside the range of Hammond’s original ‘scanner’ chorus/vibrato circuit.