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eaReckon EARebound Review at Computer Music
EARbound is a fully featured multimap delay plugin (VST/AU), comprising 15 discrete delay lines, which along with the input signal, are activated and edited via a horizontal pad layout reminiscent of a drum machine sequencer.
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FXpansion Bloom Review At Resident Advisor
FXpansion's plug-in range continues to expand. And with the likes of Etch and Maul receiving positive reviews, Bloom, FXpansion's take on a creative delay plug-in, has prompted plenty of excitement. But if you're convinced that you already have ec...
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Cableguys Curve 2 Review At Music Radar
There are a hell of a lot of soft synths out there vying for the attention of the desktop musician, and it's all too easy to overlook a gem, especially if it comes from an indie developer rather than one of the big names. As such, you may have mis...
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Cableguys Curve 2 Review At Resident Advisor
You might not be familiar with Cableguys. Based in Germany, this small company boasts a growing roster of affordable effects plugins, including FilterShaper, VolumeShaper, MidiShaper and PanCake. These have all been designed to encourage movement ...
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Cableguys Curve 2 Review At Attack
In the saturated soft synth market of late 2012, it’s increasingly difficult for plugins to offer anything new. Time and again, we see developers follow the same well-worn formula: analogue-style subtractive synthesis, the occasional hardwar...
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iZotope Review Trash 2 Review At Attack
Version 1 of iZotope’s Trash lasted ten years without a major update. We put the newly updated distortion plugin to the test.
It’s difficult to believe that iZotope released the original version of its distortion modelling plugi...
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iZotope Alloy 2 Review At Electronic Musician
The Alloy 2 channel-strip plug-in incorporates an 8-band paragraphic equalizer, harmonic exciter, transient shaper, de-esser, limiter, two dynamics processors, comprehensive metering, and spectrum analyzer into one GUI. Clicking on a processor&rsq...
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iZotope Iris Review At Music Radar
It seems that the spectral revolution is in full effect, and high-end developer iZotope is embracing it fully.
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Can make any sound musical; visual spectrogram editing; maps pitch automatically; huge, high-quality library; MIDI Learn ...
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iZotope Iris Review At Resident Advisor
A little more than a decade or so ago, Aphex Twin introduced the concept of the spectrogram to the general public when he cleverly encoded a picture of his face into one of the tracks on his single Windowlicker. The spectrogram is an alternative t...
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FXpansion Bloom Review At Music Radar
Geek-friendly tape-modelling plugin
Fundamentally, Bloom (VST/AU/RTAS) is a delay unit with the usual time and feedback controls, quickly and easily providing you with usable echoes. More importantly, though, it has real complexity and depth in p...
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Wave Alchemy Transistor Revolution Review At Computer Music
You probably think that you already have your TR-808 and 909 needs covered, but Wave Alchemy’s 6GB scripited Kontakt libary might change your mind. Incorporating over 22,000 samples (that’s all parameters for all modules captured in &l...
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Sinevibes Sequential Review At Music Tech
Staying with the same iPad esque graphic design, Sinevibes has added another plugin to its range, this time providing multi FX step sequencing at a very affordable price. There’s the usual bitcrush, distortion and modulation effects on offer...
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Cakewalk Z3TA+ 2 Review At Music Radar
Like friends, soft synths come and go, but only a few will be there for you year after year. In this sense, Z3TA+ is a firm ally of ours.
Pros
Powerful synths. Waveshapers mappable in mod matrix. All-round great sound. Much bette...
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PSP Echo Review At Resident Advisor
PSP Audioware's name has become synonymous with the audio processing techniques of yesteryear. While plenty of their plug-ins produce effortlessly modern-sounding treatments, the popularity of their VintageWarmer and OldTimer show they've captured...
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AudioRaiders Sasha Soundlab Review at Future Music
This is more than a sound library “they” say and we agree, Sasha Soundlab is a vast Kontakt instrument that really feels like a bunch of synths and drum machines, by virtue of making great use of the Kontakt interface. And beneath the ...
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AudioRaiders Sasha Soundlab Review at Gear Junkies
Anyone into music production will be familiar with the production software tools from Native Instruments. Their sampler software Kontakt is one of the best out there. That’s just a fact. Native Instruments provides very high quality instrume...
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AudioRaiders Sasha Soundlab Review at Wusik
When it comes to DJ-ing, plenty have hailed Sasha as a master on the decks as well an accomplished producer. He has been featured in various publications, being named as one of the most relevant DJs of our time. His solo album releases speak volum...
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Sonnox Oxford EQ Review At Audio Media
It was the idea of the engineers at Sony to incorporate an EQ into the OXF-R3 Oxford console that took advantage of the flexibility of the platform, but that didn't end up without a personality. The solution lay in multiple personalities — r...
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Image Line Groove Machine Review At Music Radar
For a generation of producers who have grown up with DAWs, it's hard to imagine a time when you couldn't download the exact same tools that your idols use and get busy with them in your own productions.
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Good drum samples, exce...
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Cableguys VolumeShaper 3 Review at Bedroom Producer
Cableguys have recently released VolumeShaper 3, introducing a couple of handy new features to this tremolo effect on steroids. The two most important improvements in VolumeShaper 3 are the addition of an oscilloscope display and the ability to tr...
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iZotope Trash 2 Review At DJ Mag
iZotope’s Trash has been around for 10 years. First released in 2003, it has gone on to stand the test of time, being used on various dancefloor hits. It gained favour as it was useful on any audio source and could be applied with a de...
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eaReckon EAReverb Review at Music Radar
Natural-sounding true-stereo ambience at a price that's right.
eaReckon's latest release, EAReverb, is a reverb plug-in for both Mac (VST/AU) and PC (VST). It's designed to deliver what eaReckon is calling an "earthy" algorithmic sound....
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Audio Spillage DrumSpillage Review At Resident Advisor
Beat-making is such an essential part of music production, irrespective of the genre you favour, that it is no surprise that the market is saturated with drum plug-ins of one type or other. Native Instruments' Maschine and Battery products, BFD an...
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Audio Spillage DrumSpillage Review At Audio News Room
Drumspillage is an electronic percussion synthesizer plugin from Audiospillage. Rather than going the sample route of many of the percussion plugins out there, Audiospillage has chosen to use complex algorithms to model percussive sounds. This has...
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Blue Cat's Remote Control Review At Music Radar
If you want to wield greater power over your MIDI software and hardware, this suite of virtual control surfaces might be the answer.
For the past 25 years, MIDI has provided electronic musicians with a means by which the various elements of their...
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Blue Cat's Widening Parametr'EQ Review at Sound On Sound
Blue Cat's range also includes a healthy selection of EQs and filters, and their Widening Parametr'EQ is another mastering tool with a twist. It's a stereo equaliser that operates in M/S mode, allowing you to apply different EQ curves to the Mid a...
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AAS Chromaphone Review At Music Radar
Originally produced as Ableton's Collision synth, the Canadian software wizards at Applied Acoustics Systems have now refined their initial efforts to create Chromaphone - a plug-in that delivers the sound of pitched percussion and other acoustic-...
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AAS Tassman 4 Review At Sound On Sound
Tassman is not the oldest 'virtual modular' software synth, but it's always been one of the better ones around. We check out the latest version...
Ever since I reviewed version 1.2 of Applied Acoustic Systems' Tassman modular software synth...
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Gallien-Krueger Amplification 2 Pro Review At AudioFanzine
Getting Started
Audiffex's GK Amplification Pro is a plug-in that was designed by both Audiffex and Gallien-Kruger, who is a fine maker of bass guitar amplifiers. The plug-in is available in both VST and RTAS versions. I wasn't involved w...
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Audio Spillage Elecktroid Review At Resident Advisor
AudioSpillage may remain a company name with which you're unfamiliar but if it does ring a bell, it may be because you were persuaded to try DrumSpillage, the Mac-only drum plug-in which I reviewed in May 2011. Despite some gentle misgivings about...
