Spectrasonics’ flagship synth gets a major upgrade Recently, Spectrasonics shook up the softsynth world with an October surprise: Omnisphere 3,...
It’s a remarkably responsive MIDI wind and breath controller, as well as a portable practice instrument We saw the Odisei Music Travel Sax 2 and their...
The series is growing, but is it in the right direction? When I reviewed Prime Bass, it was the first entry in Native Instruments’ Session Bassist series....
Your outboard gear shows up as a plug-in inside your DAW Even if you’re not a Eurorack GUY, you’re familiar with patchbays. Well, Freqport has updated...
You might be surprised how much you still have to learn The web is flooded with tutorial videos, articles, and product reviews that explain almost every...
How many banjo players does it take to create four different sample libraries? The historical scarcity of decent, playable convincing banjo libraries for electronic musicians is...
Waving our hands at an affordable and universally available version of the 1968 Stylophone The Stylophone was born in 1968, and it threw a unique bridge...
It’s a self-contained version of the free VCV Rack modular softsynth, and we discuss additional options. There are two ways to look at the modular synthesizer...
Is it a “smart music assistant?” Devices that take away some of the hard work of composing music are not exactly a new idea. Sampled loops,...
In which the reviewer gets totally blown away (figuratively, and quasi-literally using a wind controller) Having to pull myself away from playing the Audio Modeling SWAM...
The Polyvoks rises again – Cherry Audio Atomika Cherry Audio has a habit of coming out with excellent sofsynths at a silly price – that is,...
Dynamic, frequency-dependent “tube” saturation that you’ll probably use somewhere on every project Do you have an affinity for “just make it sound better” processors? If so,...
26 ins, 30 outs, a unique easy reamping feature make it a contender PreSonus’ audio interfaces have a reputation for low latency performance, high quality preamps,...
An accurate reimagining of the original with many bonus features Several companies – notably Arturia, Cherry Audio, and WayOutWare – have released software emulations of the...
Roland’s top-of-line keyboard workstation gets a big upgrade. Roland set its aims very high with the release of the Fantom 8 EX update. This flagship synthesizer...
