Signal Processors

Like many of Sony Oxford's plug-ins, their new limiter takes a familiar concept and applies a novel twist.

Software guitar amp modelling has been around for a while, but GTR is Waves' first foray into the field — and as you'd expect, they have made a huge effort to get it right, even hiring guitar maker Paul Reed Smith to design a bespoke preamp.

In the recent TV ad campaign for Marks & Spencer, they use the Electric Light Orchestra track 'Mr Blue Sky'. There's a distinctive robotic vocal sound in it that I am curious about. How was it made?

Last month we discussed how to prepare mixes so that they are ready for the mastering engineer. This month, we look inside the mastering room during the processing of an album, to see what kind of equipment is used, and the sort of processes that are applied to finish the tracks to the required standard.

The new Tiger AUPitch plug-in promises better pitch-shifting performance, but does it deliver in practice?

Basement Arts Frantic, Cakewalk Z3TA+, and Progress Software Soup get the install treatment.

Native's sound design software is back, and with v5, you have more control over your instruments than ever — offering fully user-definable looks, the ability to construct your own modules from scratch, and an improved library. We get patching...

If you want your mixes to go to 11, Waves' new mastering limiter might be the weapon you need.

For those who want to put a human performance at the centre of their sequenced masterpieces, Circular Logic have developed software that can understand and follow tempo changes in real time.

Not content with offering some of the most fully-featured digital mixers in the world, Yamaha have now upgraded them, and are offering extra effects packs to further expand their capabilities.

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.

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