
Mix Rescue: Max Farrar
Max Farrar: we take on a well–crafted contemporary pop tune with a massive number of tracks, and create two different mixes.
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Max Farrar: we take on a well–crafted contemporary pop tune with a massive number of tracks, and create two different mixes.

Formerly sold under the SE brand, these Andy Munro–designed Egg speakers have been given a major update. So what’s new?

NI turn their hybrid expertise to keyboard design with an innovative controller for Komplete and Maschine.

The Signature Three offers something no other EQ does — four inductor-based bands per channel.

Panda Audio’s MidiBeam wireless MIDI interface does pretty much what it says on the tin.


Can this tiny box deliver a big sound?

This month XILS Lab 'XILS4' and Digital Brain's 'Multiplex Vocoder'.

Pro Tools acting funny? Chances are you’ve just changed playback mode by accident.

Three-way speakers tend to reside at the higher-priced end of the market — can Prodipe succeed with a budget-friendly option?

Get to grips with Reaper’s range of automation facilities.

We look at ReGroove and the new quantise features in Reason 8.


Audiowiesel are a small fledgling company run by Austrian composers Frank Herrlinger and Daniel Szwedek.

Like its predecessor Action Strings, the Action Strikes percussion library is a collaboration between software giants Native Instruments and the production company Sonuscore.

Zero–G’s Electro Cinematic library provides approximately 2.5GB of sample material.
These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the January 2015 issue of SOS.
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A couple of years ago Sonokinetic released Carousel, a rather splendid Kontakt–hosted fairground organ. The Carnival is very much a ‘sister’ instrument to Carousel and presents two smaller-scale barrel organs.

This extensive and in-depth eBook explains so much more than how to process your kicks and bass sounds!
Brushes Held Like Hammers: Our recording engineer looks at ways to reduce spill without compromising a full–band tracking...