Signal Processors

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.

Korg's AX1500G floor-standing guitar multi-effects processor offers tons of tone for very few pounds.

Line 6's acclaimed Delay Modeler pedal gets a rackmount makeover.

Eventide's new entry-level unit brings their high-end algorithms within reach of the serious home studio owner.

Modern digital effects units always include emulations of analogue effects such as tape delay and flanging — but none of them ever seem quite like the real thing. Paul White explains how these vintage effects worked, and offers insight into how our modern attempts could be made more accurate.

Lexicon's new mid-priced unit strikes a balance between the ease of use of their budget gear and the flexibility and sonic class of their high-end products. Paul White gets an exclusive first look...