118 Results for "Review"

Review: Design sounds by drawing with Tsugi DSP Action and DSP Motion

Tsugi DSP Action and Motion let you ditch your MIDI controller for drawing to generate cinematic sound effects like the industry's best libraries.

Arturia SQ80 V First Look Review: A modern salute to 8-bit Ensoniq grit

For their first Ensoniq emulation, Arturia chose a crowd favorite - the SQ-80. Expectations are understandably high, but does the SQ 80 V rule?

Novation Circuit Rhythm: The Review

Can Novation's sample-based groovebox open up a new world of beats for you? We took the sleek, fun Circuit Rhythm out for a spin.

Review: Korg Modwave Wavetable synthesizer

Korg's Modwave wavetable synthesizer is a fun and exciting digital synth that suffers from an abundance of modulation - and that's a great thing!

Review: does UVI Asteroid strike movie composers and sound designers?

UVI Asteroid throws mix-ready drum and percussion hits at composers and sound designers with plentiful, but non-excessive creative headroom.

First Look Review: Crazy Tube Circuits TI:ME, a retro digital delay pedal

Crazy Tube Circuits' TI:ME is billed as a retro-flavoured, warm-sounding delay pedal - does it hold up to the hype? We take it through its paces.

First Look Review: Analogue Solutions Leipzig v3, analog in its purest form

As the successor to the Leipzig-S, the Analogue Solutions Leipzig v3 offers analog synthesis in its purest form. We've given it a good test run.

Review: Minimal Audio Rift pushes the creative distortion envelope

Rift splits waveforms in two, destroying each half in more ways than you could possibly imagine. Our verdict: No distortion plug-in comes close.

Walrus Audio Polychrome Review: quality analog flanger tones?

Walrus Audio recently released its latest pedal, the Polychrome Analog Flanger. If you're a fan of flanger effects, then you need to check this pedal out!

Fender Mustang Micro headphone amp review: Plug in and go

Does the Fender Mustang Micro - a €99 headphone amp - have the chops to impress experienced tone hounds? Jef Stone took it through its paces.

Moog Sound Studio: The Review

The Moog Sound Studio offers all you need to start making music with Moog semi-modular synths. We check out this pricy but fabulous bundle of noise.

Boom Library Enrage review: multi-FX plug-in that needs some taming

Boom Library's Enrage is a beast of a modular multi-effects plug-in for music producers and sound designers - we took the animal out of its cage.

Strymon NightSky Review: Reinventing the Reverb?

Strymon lent us its latest reverb unit, the NightSky "Time-warped Reverberator" with a step sequencer, for a test run. Here's our review.

Fender American Professional II Stratocaster Review: The new flagship

We take an in-depth look at Fender's new flagship American Professional II Stratocaster! Has Fender created a must-have guitar for the modern player?

ADPTR Audio Streamliner: preview your masters for the major streaming platforms

ADPTR Audio's Streamliner lets you preview your masters through the same compression algorithms used by the major streaming services, as well as A/B mixes and masters with reference tracks.

Review: Overloud Gem Voice – great vocal sounds without the complexity?

So you want comprehensive digital tools to get the best out of your vocals? Overloud Gem Voice can get you some great sounds, but keeps the learning curve nice and flat. Check out our full review.

Review: Is the Arturia KeyStep 37 the perfect MIDI and Modular controller?

More keys and arpeggios, a display, polyphonic sequencing, an expanded Chord mode, MIDI controls and loads of tweaks: the KeyStep 37 packs a punch for modular and MIDI control. Here's our review!

Review: Manson MBM-1 Meta, a Matt Bellamy signature guitar that pulls no punches

Manson Guitars and Matt Bellamy of Muse designed the MBM-1 to offer players an affordable, flexible guitar that doesn't skimp on quality. Have they hit the mark? Here's our in-depth review.

Soma Pulsar-23 organismic drum machine review

An immense analogue drum machine is being cooked up in Soma Laboratories called the Pulsar-23. It's like plummeting through the beating heart of a planet, while on fire and having your soul modulated. I like ...

Roland SE-02: The first reviews, user demos and shoot-outs are here!

Roland's recently announced SE-02 caused some shockwaves to ripple through the synth community - now the first demos and reviews are in! Sit back and enjoy some twiddling!

We say farewell to Zenon Schoepe (of Resolution magazine)

This news comes as a shock to many as he was seen only last week at Musikmesse. Zenon was a strong figure in our industry and will be greatly missed.

Sonnox’s new Oxford Envolution on trial

Sonnox released their new Envolution plugin before the new year, so I put it through its paces to see if it's worth the old-school price tag.