Reviews
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…
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…