Signal Processors

Surround-capable reverbs don't usually come with a price tag of £100. However, nobody seems to have told Voxengo. So just how good is their Pristine Space PC VST plug-in?

As well as more-or-less conventional vocoding and pitch-shifting, DelayDots' new VST plug-in offers effects so bizarre they almost defy description.

Sony's Oxford digital mixers are out of many people's reach, but Pro Tools and Powercore users can now get their hands on the Oxford's sophisticated processing tools.

Antares certainly don't believe in the 'less is more' maxim, if this new filtering effect is anything to go by.

Two effect pedals from the celebrated synth manufacturer provide serious modulation flexibility within a stomp-box format.

This dual-channel compressor combines valve circuitry with an opto-compressor design. But does it deliver the best or the worst of both worlds?

Mindprint have overhauled the electronics in their popular valve recording channel, and have also added extra facilities and an optional USB recording and monitoring interface.

Ted Fletcher's new processor packs four different well-known compression types into a single box.

AMS Neve have reissued one of the most revered of the '70s Neve designs, but can it still compete in the 21st century?

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.

This Voice Modeler plug-in is designed to change the character of a recorded vocal, adding breathiness, chest resonance and 'growl', and allowing you to modify inflection and vibrato.

The biggest music technology manufacturer in the world has stuck to hardware — until now. Do Yamaha's first plug-in processors have what it takes to compete with the big names in Mac and Windows software?

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.

Version 2 of Celemony's revolutionary pitch- and tempo-shifting software includes new features, better sequencer integration and an improved interface.

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

A range of affordable third-rack units designed to cover a variety of studio tasks without compromising on quality.

There's already a decent range of products providing digital emulations of vintage guitar amps, but iZotope's Direct X plug-in goes a lot further, offering no fewer than seven processing modules, and is intended to model every kind of distortion you'll ever need.