Effects

Alesis continue to show us how to cram big spaces into ever smaller boxes!

Although most major MIDI + Audio sequencing applications include bundled EQ, dynamics and reverb plug-ins, they don't always sound too great, so many users are on the lookout for alternatives, like these two from Wave Arts.

These two new rack processors from Vermona offer flexible filtering and phasing with a range of interesting modulation options.

Lexicon update their MPX500 with more editing parameters, extra mastering processes, and more user patches.

This new version of Line 6's ground-breaking Pod guitar processor combines improved amp modelling with a host of high-quality effects plundered from the company's range of rack processors.

A low-cost multi-effects unit with a huge repertoire of effects.

Korg give their creative real-time effects processor a face-lift, adding new algorithms, extra sampling power, and tempo-matching facilities.

A new company adds another affordable effects unit to the market. But does it have what it takes to compete with the established big names?

It's a sequenceable filter, it's an amp modeller, and it's a drum machine... it's the AdrenaLinn, the new guitar processor from famed designer Roger Linn, best known for his classic drum machines and sequencing workstations.

The Holy Grail is probably the simplest digital reverb unit on the planet. Designed for guitar, the pedal will work with any instrument-level source...

Does this preset-based dual-channel multi-effects processor produce a performance that belies its entry-level price?

Despite cramming 48 effects and 144 adjustable parameters into a box the size of a double CD case, Ineko is remarkably simple to use.

Mutronics bring a blast from the past to a rack near you.

Two more visually distinctive rack units from Line 6, designed to model the hallowed sounds of antiquity.

Heavyweight TC effects processing but with a menu-free, easy-to-use, hands-on interface.

The enhanced V‑Amp 2 has more sounds and more features... for less money!

Yamaha' s cutting-edge reverberation processor uses convolution techniques to sample the ambience of real acoustic environments, allowing extremely accurate simulations.

The latest technological advances in reverb design have yielded expensive hardware units that can 'sample' the sound of real rooms. Now Audio Ease's Altiverb brings the same convolving technology to the Mac — at a fraction of the cost.

The market for hardware samplers may be on the wane, but Emu aren't abandoning their hardware customers; their RFX32 effects/mixer card can add tremendous processing and routing power to any of their Ultra samplers.

A plug-in card for the Yamaha AW-series workstations that combines Waves-quality DSP effects with eight channels of ADAT optical I/O.

TC upgrade both the hardware and the software of their cost-effective M•One multi-effects unit.