MachFive 3 Review
Updates to MachFive don’t appear very often. When they do, though, they are always substantial. This time, eight years after its launch, MachFive 3 has a redesigned interface plus brand-new scripting More...
Razor Review
Reaktor has been a breeding ground for some of the most unusual and distinctive software synths in music production, particularly those that show little regard for the conventions of subtractive synthesis. The More...
Geist
FXpansion leapt to everyone’s attention with BFD, an outstanding software acoustic drum sample player that brought a level of realism to sample-based drum performances that simply had not been achievable previously. More...
Speaker Junk Bass heavy House
Superstar DJs Hervé and Trevor Loveys – AKA Speaker Junk – have spent the last few years smashing up dancefloors around the world with their blend of heavy bass, wonky synths and fidget grooves. The latest More...
miniDRUM PRO
This iPad-only drum machine has eight sample pads that can house whatever samples you’d like – either from the large library that’s included or sounds you’ve imported. Patterns are programmed on a simple More...
Glitch & Twist
Released in 2001, Daft Punk’s Discovery was one of the first albums to bring aggressively cut-up glitch samples into the mainstream. These days, heavily effected vocals and stutter edits can now be heard More...
aurora sound studio HD
After many apps have let us down, Aurora finally provides a decent set of sound sculpture and song-writing tools especially for the iPad. It includes up to 16 simultaneous samplers, drum machines or synths, and More...
microSAMPLER
To a large extent, the old-school sampler has been replaced by our DAWs. Audio can be created, repeated, topped and tailed, pitch-shifted or timestretched effortlessly onscreen with a mouse. Who needs a separate More...
Dubstep Nation
As more and more producers enter the dubstep arena we’re seeing a more diverse range of styles, from club-based dark, aggressive, happy and jump-up styles to more downbeat tracks. Dubstep Nation is the latest More...
MORPHESTRA
Sample Logic’s Morphestra is one of a growing number of products directly aimed at the busy media composer, whether they’re producing music for film and TV, game soundtracks or the web. In a similar vein More...
