Spotlight Round-ups

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. Play a chord and Pathfinder Violin will react to the notes that you play, corresponding to selected patterns or shapes.

Rating: 4/5 Stars. Built in collaboration with Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Music collective, Fractured Strings is a compelling library full of personality.

Some love a Pultec. Others prefer a Neumann or a Lang. Marshall Terry decided to combine his favourite aspects of these much‑loved equalisers in one box!

Vintage Vibe’s Rhodes recreation just keeps getting better.

The follow‑up to Pamela’s Workout sets the gold standard for clock division and rhythmic trigger generation all over again.

Slice records audio and plays it back as a loop. Being clockable means that in‑time stutter, ratchet and glitch effects are yours to command.

Audient’s EVO ecosystem grows further with an unusually intelligent ADAT expander!

Audient’s iD44 was pretty good to start with... and now it’s even better.

With newly designed drivers and Sonarworks integration, ADAM’s new A series promises a lot of monitoring for your money.

Austrian Audio’s new instrument mics are intended to turn heads!

This classy analogue device boasts some impressive specs and has applications that extend way beyond summing.

Californian start‑up Groove Synthesis haven’t just recreated the PPG Wave, they’ve made it even better.

Kali’s new three‑way system brings serious monitoring to your desktop.

Polyend’s Play takes a unique, and very hands‑on, approach to sequencing samples.

These new all‑analogue simulations run a real tube on a high‑voltage supply, and cover a useful range of tonalities.

The idea of digitally controlled VCAs is far from new — but this implementation feels like the future!

Tonex lets you capture and share the sound of your guitar amps, pedals and miking setups.

Its combination of ‘See‑Saw’ band and filters make this classy EQ really versatile.

Compatible with both the 500‑series and the 51X modular formats, these classy Allan Bradford‑designed modules offer up analogue magic in spades.

What’s new in the latest version of iZotope’s market‑leading audio restoration app?

George Massenburg’s new plug‑in promises a different approach to dynamic control.