New music tech gear of the month: review round-up (October 2010)
'The Damage' aren't shy about challenging conventional plug-in design...
Audio Damage Axon ($59)
Every month, MusicRadar’s industry-leading sister magazines - Guitarist, Computer Music, Total Guitar, Rhythm and Future Music - publish the best independent and in-depth music-making gear reviews.
We’ve collated the latest DAWs, synths, plug-ins and iOS apps to have fallen under the watchful eyes of Computer Music and Future Music’s test teams. All the gear on show here was originally reviewed in Computer Music issue 157 and Future Music issue 232 and published on MusicRadar throughout September and October.
Scroll on for this month’s top picks and click through to read each product’s full review. First up: Audio Damage Axon.
The Argon synth developer delivers a soft studio
iceGear Xenon (£2.99)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
Yet another EQ, but not quite your standard effort...
Voxengo HarmoniEQ 2.0 ($100)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
Flux and IRCAM join forces for this innovative audio transformation tool
Flux TRAX (£399)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
A new company offers up this solution to multi-mic phase coherence issues
Sound Radix Auto-Align ($149)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
Jack Joseph Puig puts his name to another Waves plug-in bundle
Waves JJP Artist Signature Collection (£646)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
One of the all-time classic synths returns. It's the SEM, but different...
tomoberheim SEM (€950)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
A bundle of synths, samplers, drums and effects; you've never had it so good!
Native Instruments Komplete 7 (£399)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
Unity's 'brutally honest tool', in the form of a Corian-fronted monitor
Unity Audio The Rock (£1,750)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
Does Sony's ACID Music Studio cut the mustard as a budget DAW?
Sony Creative Software ACID Music Studio 8 (£50)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
An update for one of the best bits of modelled piano plug-in software
Modartt Pianoteq 3.6 (€249)
MusicRadar’s verdict:
A budget version of the Axiom Pro, but much better than your battered old 'board