Reviews
Throw open the large oak double doors and step inside the dusky library. Leather bound books line the walls and you trace your fingers…
Today we’re reviewing Joyo D-SEED, a budget friendly delay pedal that sounds very nice and feels rather well built, despite its relatively affordable price. Currently…
Shreddage Bass 2 ($119) is a detailed sample library of a six-string bass guitar for Native Instruments Kontakt and the free Kontakt player.
I check the Instruments forum at KVR semi-regularly to look for new synths, and ones like ArcSyn are the reason why. Clicking on the…
Orchestral Tools Metropolis Ark 1 is a huge orchestral library in two senses of the word. First, even compressed it takes 70 GB of…
With the rise of home based studios, independent musicians of today are often handling multiple tasks that would normally be handled by a larger…
Today we’re reviewing the MicroBrute, Arturia’s ultra compact analog hardware synthesizer that shares quite a few similarities with its big brother MiniBrute, but still…
Dusk begins to descend and darkness chases away the last hints of light. You turn your head from side to side, straining to hear…
Strobe has been a permanent fixture in my VST collection for several years, and the sequel expands on it in a number of ways…
IK Multimedia’s Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is a much bigger (with over 55 GB of content) successor to the classic Miroslav Philharmonik sampler soundset and plugin.…
Vocals: the final frontier. The human voice might not be as complex as a grand piano when it comes to the number of moving…
If your memory goes all the way back and beyond the MIDI controller boom, you’ll remember that Novation once manufactured some pretty cool synthesizers. Not…
That Sound’s new DrumLine library ($35 for samples or loops, $45 for both, deluxe edition including both plus sampler mappings is $55 with a…
Producers these days can easily collect an incredible array of instruments on their home computers, ranging from digital synthesizers more powerful than anything that existed…
There are plenty of adequate resonator effect plugins out there, most of which offer ugly user interfaces and fidgety controls. Often, they are highly…
ModeAudio has a talent for avoiding the slavish mainstream soundware paradigm. If you are looking for out-of-the-box Beatport Top 100 sounds, then I encourage…
The first entry in Rattly And Raw’s new series of signature sample libraries is a big one – over 12 GB compressed and packing more…
On a Friday night in January this year, I was looking around for a challenge. After searching through the latest remix competitions, I came…
Dehumaniser is designed to do exactly what the name says – make human voices sound inhuman, and turn them into monster voices for movies, games,…
Every once in a great while, I sit down with a new software synthesizer (well, new to me that is) and I’m just floored…
Bitwig Studio has been out for a good while now, and although there were a number of features missing in the 1.0 release, it’s…
Weighing in at more than 13,000 samples and 5 GB of disk space, Shreddage 2 IBZ ($139, or $119 for owners of Shreddage 2,…
We’re taking a closer look at the Arturia KeyLab 49 Black Edition controller, a high quality mid-range MIDI keyboard aimed at electronic musicians, beat…
There’s been quite an arms race in virtual pianos over the past fifteen years, with some sampled pianos now featuring tens of thousands of…