Reviews
Over the past several years, USB microphones have come a long way. A concept that started simply as a way to make digital recording…
Ample Bass Upright II is a virtual double bass instrument from Ample Sound, a company which focuses mainly on developing guitar virtual instruments.
LEVELS by Mastering The Mix and 29 Palms (£69, free trial available) is an unusual metering plugin which is designed to give you the…
AmpleSound’s new Ample Guitar TC II ($119) virtual instrument is a recreation of a custom built Fender Telecaster electric guitar in VST/AU/AAX/RTAS plugin formats.
Kick drums have definitely changed over the years. From basic acoustic kick drums, they evolved into electronic kicks made with analog synthesizers, and more recently…
Drum Leveler by Sound Radix is a VST/AU/AAX/RTAS plugin for PC and Mac that is best described as a surgical gain tool, primarily suitable…
Output’s new product called Movement is a multi-FX plugin whose main function is to turn incoming sounds into rhythmic textures.
FabFilter weren’t the first to use colorful, informative and non-skeuomorphic GUIs in their plugins, but they are the first company that comes to mind…
Every so often, whenever I find myself underwhelmed by the current offering of VST plugins, I bump into something that previously had escaped my…
Softube Heartbeat ($169) is a modern plugin take on classic drum machines of the 70s and 80s. It’s a 32-bit and 64-bit compatible VST/AU/AAX…
Deep Drums is the latest drum sound library released by Drum Depot, a sound design company that focuses on crafting highly affordable and 100% mix…
If you’re into synthesizers of any kind, it probably didn’t take long before you came across the Moog brand. They are famous for a…
Lethal is the flagship rompler from newcomers Lethal Audio. Sleek, straightforward, and oriented towards the dance floor, it promises “a whole new world of…
Psychic Modulation brought out Phonec a fair while back, a synthesizer designed to create the warped, nostalgic leads, pads and washes that remind us…
I just don’t have the nerve to refer to myself as a “professional guitarist”. I’ve been playing for about seven years, and during that…
Digital Brain’s Voxpat ($159 standard price, $119 intro price until April 30th) is a piece of real-time FX software intended for creating monster and…
In a time when software instruments are more powerful than ever, it becomes increasingly more difficult to get excited about “the next big thing”…
Ample Sound’s product lineup includes three virtual acoustic guitars and one acoustic bass guitar. Ample Guitar L II samples an Alhambra Luthier classical guitar,…
Wiggle is a virtual synthesizer developed by newcomers 2nd Sense Audio, based on dynamic waveforms. The main premise is that each of the four oscillators are…
Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 ($149.95 or $49.95 upgrade) is a major update of Garritan’s classic orchestral library. It is a 32/64-bit plugin and standalone…
Ample Metal Eclipse II and Ample Metal Ray5 II (priced at $119 each) are metal guitar and bass guitar virtual instruments made using AmpleSound’s own…
KiloHearts Multipass is a streamlined multi-band effects processing suite with a lightning-quick workflow, intuitive and fun interface, and a selection of “Snap-In” effects, most…
It still amazes me that decades after Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi, Tom Oberheim and Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits originally discussed the general idea…
If all currently available digital audio workstations got together to take a picture, it would be a very crowded affair. Big names like Pro…