Effects

Brief appraisals of another selection of software Plug-ins from Disco DSP, Cutter Music, Kjaerhus Audio and PSP.

This versatile effects processor has not only been designed for guitarists and bassists, but also for the home studio owner.

Roger Linn Design have updated their versatile instrument processor, which still produces an array of unusual effects not normally available from a single box, but is now claimed to be easier to use.

Line 6 give their PodXT the Pro treatment, adding comprehensive I/O and flexible output configurations to their successful modelling processor.

One of Yamaha's most well-known studio products receives a makeover for the 21st Century.

As well as a bundle of 50-plus effects plug-ins, Quantum FX provides all the tools you need to design your own.

We check out two more useful plug-ins, one for Powercore and one for PC VST/Direct X.

Convolving reverbs are coming down in price as more manufacturers make their own. We check out Emagic's new plug-in, which is one of the more affordable ones around, but still allows you to create your own reverbs from favourite spaces.

Can you please tell me how to set up the Korg Kaoss Pad KP2 as an ordinary pitch-bender?

TC's plug-in powerhouse is now available as an external Firewire-connected rack unit.

TC's flagship reverb processor, based on the System 6000 hardware, combines 16 channels of world-beating processing with flexible and lightning-fast operation.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.