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Four hot Sample Collections get the SOS Sample Shop review treatment: • Big Fish Audio Chill • Best Service Chris Hein Horns Volume 1 • M-Audio Premium Electric Pianos • Loopmasters Soulful House Sessions
Better use of your Mac’s Spotlight feature could save you hours of arduous searching...
In part two of this series, we explore more simple ways to spice up your chord sequences.
Leeds Media Centre (LMC) have announced that they're offering special summer deals on studio bookings. The community...
Live opera can be a life-changing experience — and London’s premier opera house is using immersive sound to explore new ways of sharing it.
Maximising A Minimal Arrangement: Our engineer tackles the recording of some stripped-down electric-guitar and vocal arrangements.
John Walden examines the new collection of 62 construction kits from BFA.
How to drag all your instruments into the same instance of Kontakt and set them up to use separate Kontakt MIDI inputs and audio outputs...
IK Multimedia have announced that they're shipping the iRig 2, the sequel to the most popular guitar...
Cinematic Samples take a refreshingly simple approach to the Hollywood orchestral sound.
Behind every virtual band, there are real producers and engineers. In the case of Gorillaz, they were Anthony Khan and Stephen Sedgwick.
I've just bought a new MIDI controller keyboard that has a selection of velocity curves. How should I go about choosing which...
Regular readers of our sample library reviews might be forgiven for thinking that Ueberschall's Score FX II is just the same...
Last month, Paul Wiffen looked at how virtual synthesis can emulate analogue synths whilst going beyond their hardware-based limitation. Now he looks at its applications for imitating and exceeding older instruments such as electric piano and organ.
The Civil Wars chose to avoid the usual studio trickery for their debut album, and have reaped great success as a result.
The hottest Broadway show for decades has spawned a smash hit album. But, as engineers Derik Lee and Tim Lathan explain, Hamilton is not your average ‘original cast recording’.
When we compared eight mic preamps with very different designs and price tags, we found it hard to tell them apart. Could SOS readers do better?
Last month, we recounted our experiences of tracking a jazz big band on location. Now we explain what it takes to turn the raw multitracks into a nicely polished production.
