Cherry Audio Octave Cat review
- £43
- €48
- $49
Emulating a key ’70s synth scene disruptor, Cherry Audio’s new creation adopts feline tendencies. We take a prowl…
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Analog Lab Play is a free Arturia plugin with a simplified interface and V Collection and Pigments sounds
New instrument comes with 100 easily-browsable presets that can be tweaked with macro controls
Roland Gaia 2 review
- £766
- €869
- $769
Roland’s ‘hands-on’ virtual analogue returns with some fresh tricks up its sleeve. But does it still have one foot stuck in the past?
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Enter the digital realm with our pick of pianos from Yamaha, Roland, Casio, Kawai and Korg
Orchestral Tools new library features instruments that have never been sampled before
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Korg Modwave mkII: what's new in the latest version of the hybrid wavetable monster synth?
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Roland's new augmented reality service lets you place a grand piano in your bathroom
See how a grand piano fits anywhere in your house without a delivery driver saying "it'll never get through that door"
Solid State Logic Blitzer review
- £96
- €120
- $120
SSL’s latest plugin delivers a variety of classic compressor colours, but can it match dedicated emulations?
JMG Sound Bitpunk review
- £68
- €79
- $83
Bitpunk offers the means to craft crunchy bit reduction, or glitched-out sonic destruction. We get brutal…
Audio Imperia Dolce review
- $499
Audio Imperia brings us a package of chamber-sized strings, inspired by a golden Hollywood age. Who said romance is dead?
GForce Software M-Tron Pro IV review
- £150
- €196
- $190
With an update to an established icon, GForce makes the case for the tape-based arts (albeit in software form)
FL Studio's latest version has an iconic synth, stem separation and will upload your music to Spotify – and it's still only a point update
Take note, software developers... this is how to do an update!
IK Multimedia Pianoverse review
IK's latest instrument ecosphere promises to deliver the ultimate piano sounds to your hard drive (and all by way of robots)
BLEASS Voices review
- £60
- €69
- $69
BLEASS’s latest allows you the ability to create exciting and complex harmonies with ease. We channel our inner choir master
Sound Dust Plankton Drummer review
- £60
- €70
- $80
Sound Dust’s new Kontakt instrument blurs the waves between percussion and harmony. But is it sea-worthy? We set sail…
Eventide releases immersive versions of its Blackhole and MicroPitch plugins
A stereo Blackhole becoming 3D should be enough to blow anyone's mind…
Could Lambda Synthetics' PolyPulse revolutionize live electronic music performance?
With five tracks, six engines, effects, sampling and sequencing built-in, this performance workstation could be the ultimate live electronic music tool
