Signal Processors

You probably know Allen & Heath as a studio mixer manufacturer, but they also specialise in high-end DJ mixing and processing. Now they have combined their studio and DJ expertise into a multi-mode analogue filter with sophisticated MIDI control.

This slimline rack processor makes CEDAR's latest class-leading audio-restoration algorithms remarkably quick and easy to use.

Mindprint cram mic and line channel strips, monitor control, and talkback into a single desktop unit.

This unusual effects pedal combines a bank of eight band-pass filters with an analogue-style control sequencer.

Korg's new valve preamp and optical compressor is available not only as a stand-alone box, but also in a version which can be installed directly into either of their flagship digital multitrackers.

This range of valve processors offers a variety of character sounds for the more adventurous home recordist.

Thanks to the new MD3 package, Powercore users now have access to high-end mastering tools from TC's System 6000 processor.

Although convolution is often associated with high-end reverb processing, this technology makes many other new sounds available to you once you understand how it works.

We check out another batch of plug-ins destined to find a place in your virtual rack.

A premium compression sound lurks behind the no-frills cosmetics of this new Broadhurst Gardens processor.

This cross-platform package from BIAS offers high-quality denoising at an affordable price.

This new optical compressor not only has a smooth sound, but also offers gain-reduction metering to help you set it up.

Despite being both smaller and lighter, this new compressor yields little in performance to Dbx's flagship 160SL.

This new 1U rack from Drawmer offers their best-sounding compression yet.

If you are the kind of person who likes to accentuate the transients in their pitch-shifted recordings, before vocoding them and auto-doubling the results, Waves have the perfect plug-in bundle for you...

If you are an avid slicer of beats, then Zero-X's latest offering might just appeal. With its support for multitrack slicing and quantizing, is Beat Quantizer the best thing since sliced bread?

We test another crop of highly insertable software Plug-ins: Elemental Audio Eqium & Firium and TC Electronic TC30.

A Powercore version of Antares' ubiquitous Auto-Tune pitch corrector was announced in 2001, but it never appeared. Is TC's new Intonator HS plug-in a viable alternative?

If your computer could sing, what would it sound like? With the Cantor software synth from Virsyn, you can find out...

This high-end stereo compressor boasts three different flavours of optical compression.

If you are looking for effects and instruments to give your mixes a sideways slant, Cycling '74 might have just the thing...