Spitfire Audio Albion Colossus review
- £399
Should the world ever entertain an Apocalypse, it’s great to know that we have the correct scoring tools to hand. Spitfire’s latest epic goes colossal!
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Spectrasonics’ Keyscape 1.5 includes a Double Felt Grand piano, and existing users get this “#1 most requested sound” for free
If an upright felt piano isn’t cutting it for you, maybe try this…
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Modartt Pianoteq 8 review
- €139 to €799
The highly-regarded piano – and so much more – instrument reaches version 8, but is Pianoteq still one of the best you can buy?
Tracktion Dawesome Kult review
- $129
With ‘Strange Attractor’ oscillators – 30 of them – plus easy FM and AM synthesis, Kult might well be the synth of the year. And it’s only March
Behringer says it’s slashing the prices of its synths by up to 60%
The end of the semiconductor shortage could be good news for your bank balance
Arturia MiniFreak V review
- €199
Having emulated practically every significant synth ever made, Arturia turns its attention to one of its own creations
Suzuki is marking its 70th anniversary by releasing a new version of the Omnichord
Someone call Damon Albarn
Korg’s Liano is now available in 6 different colours, so which one looks the best?
Black, white, grey, silver, blue or red?
FabFilter Twin 3 review
- €129
Twin is one of the few softsynths to have reached ‘legendary’ status. After 14 years, it now reaches version 3, but was it worth the wait?
Klevgrand and Wintergartan have created Speldosa, a magical music box plugin
The man behind the marble machine gives you his “secret sauce”
Focal ST6 Sub12 review
- £2149
We take a deep dive into this behemoth of bass from premium audio brand Focal
MIDI’s 40th anniversary is set to be celebrated at the 2023 NAMM Show, and MIDI 2.0 is also being previewed
Plus, Chuck D will be on hand to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop
Tony Banks on why he would have “screwed up” In The Air Tonight if Phil Collins had given it to Genesis
“I bet I would’ve said, ‘Phil, what are you doing, you can’t use just three chords in a song”
Roland’s Zenology Pro plugin hits version 2.0: more sounds and a refined user interface
The Zen-Core-powered soft synth gets an update
A firmware update for the cut-price Yamaha DX9 synth makes it more like a DX7
40 years after its release, an alternative ROM removes some of the DX9's artificial limitations
Peter Gabriel on music and AI: “I think you do better if you work with a powerful new tool than just grumble or pretend it doesn’t exist”
Of the end of Genesis, he says: “I had been there at the beginning, so I should be there at the end”
