Signal Processors

Although it certainly does sample, Roland's breakthrough 'Variphrase Processor' is far more than just a sampler — it offers a host of 'elastic' real-time pitch-shifting and time-stretching options the like of which have never been seen before. Derek Johnson & Debbie Poyser stretch the limits of sonic processong with the unique new VP9000.

Paul White changes his manual-gearbox compressor for an automatic model to see whether performance or economy suffer.

Back in the days when spring reverbs were all that the project studio owner could afford, nobody had a good word to say about...

In SOS June '99 we reviewed the original Tascam CD‑D4000, a 2U CD duplicator capable of replicating complete...

Paul White takes a newly reincarnated Focusrite classic for a spin in his studio and discovers that sometimes, they do make things like they used to.