Plug-ins

The Receptor lets you use VST plug-ins without a computer. How does V2 improve on the original?

FabFilters powerful plug-in suite brings us advanced modulation possibilities, filters with multiple personalities, and plenty of overdrive.

In its new Direct Note Access, the latest version of Celemony's Melodyne introduces what might just be the most hotly anticipated piece of music technology ever. Will mixing and remixing ever be the same again?

• Softube Spring Reverb & Tube Delay • Audio Ease Speakerphone 2 • Ametrine Audio Ravernator

• Image Line Ogun • Image Line Gross Beat • VirSyn FDelay

There are lots of reasons why you might want to write your own VST plug-ins. The learning curve can be steep, but there are development environments out there that can help. We take you through the options.

Just in case the line-up of plug-ins available for the UAD cards wasnt tempting enough already, Universal Audio have now added emulations of classic SSL hardware.

• D16 Silver Line • Sonic Charge Synplant

A couple of years ago, the bass player in my band announced proudly that he'd bought himself a Markbass combo. I wasn't very...

Most of us cannot afford to have Tony Maserati mix our tracks — but thanks to Waves, we can now use his personal effects and processing chains in our own mixes.

Auto-Tune has been the industry-standard pitch-correction tool ever since its 1997 release. Does the latest Evo version keep the competition at bay?

Working with a mouse and keyboard neednt compromise real-time control, as Sugar Bytes clever interface design demonstrates.

Pod Farm, which replaces Line 6's earlier Gearbox software, is a VST, RTAS and AU plug‑in for Mac and PC that offers Line 6's...

• Stillwell Audio BadBussMojo • Abbey Road Brilliance Pack • Cableguys Filtershaper

• Overloud Breverb • TC Tube-Tech CL1B

Digidesign get into the 'virtual guitar amp' game with a plug-in that emulates a selection of classic amplifiers and cabinets in impressive detail.

Intrusive sibilants can ruin an otherwise good-sounding vocal track, and conventional de-essers are often of limited use. Can Eiosis's radical new design do any better?

Unique Recording Software have modelled a vast array of vintage compressors and EQs and presented the results in a single plug-in.

New plug-ins continue to emerge from Universal Audio HQ at a scary rate, and their DSP-based effects and processors are now available to laptop users for the first time.

This month we test two soft synths: Image Lines Toxic III and Astralis from Homegrown Sounds.

More and more material needs to be delivered in surround formats, but what if you dont have the time or the budget for a 5.1 remix? We test the current crop of unwrap plug-ins that can create a surround master from a stereo mix.