2023 Gear Of The Year!
The SOS team pick their highlights from the past year of hardware and software launches.
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The SOS team pick their highlights from the past year of hardware and software launches.
The green front panel of Antelope’s first monitor speaker conceals an unusual design approach.
Ufx Reverb might sound like a conventional effect but, fear not: Reverb can do conventional things, but there’s a good dollop of UJAM creativity here too!
Tonemission, founded by John Petrucci, guitarist and founding member of prog metal band Dream Theater, recently released a...
Drift is a plug‑in that embraces all those things that old‑school engineers used to hate about analogue tape!
There’s a lot of competition in the 500‑series preamp market, but this one offers something a little different.
These remarkably affordable speakers raise the bar for ultra‑compact monitoring.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. It makes sense that Heavyocity, devotees of dangerous, destructive, distorted brain‑crushing timbres, turn their attention to heavy guitar.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The latest sample library from Kirk Hunter Studios is designed to cater to all your strings section needs.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Quiet Music may not be the biggest name in software instruments, but for those producing ambient, chillout or lo‑fi music, the company’s products are a real find.
Sonible’s AI‑based EQ processing just got easier to use and more affordable.
Gliss is the new Eurorack offering from innovative company Bela. A capacitive touch sensor with alleged sub‑millimetre accuracy(!) that promises a whole lot...
Night Rider from RYK is a Quad Sequential Resonator, offering four resonant filters that can be sequenced.
Modbap Modular’s Meridian is a dual digital filter that can switch between an array of modes and signal path...
Strymon’s Brig is a digital pedal that runs analogue ‘bucket brigade’ delay emulations, and offers three switchable delay voicings.
The ever‑growing UAFX stompbox line‑up now includes a range of more affordable single‑function digital pedals: 1176 Studio Compressor, Orion Tape Echo, Heavenly Plate Reverb and Evermore Studio Reverb.
The war of the clones shows little sign of ending — and Warm Audio have now trained their sights on a very classy optical compressor.
Music production has changed a good deal since Harrison’s most famous in‑line console enjoyed its heyday — so they decided to bring it up to date.
Akai’s APC64 is much more than just a successor to the APC40 — in fact, it’s much more than just an Ableton controller...
Arturia have designed the AudioFuse 16Rig specifically to cater for electronic musicians. What does it offer that other interfaces don’t?