Propellerhead Reason 7 Review
When one of the world’s best loved DAWs gets an update we’re always excited to see what’s new. Hollin Jones lifts the lid on Reason 7 Reason is one of the most popular music-making applications around. For More...
Native Instruments Komplete 9 Review
Today’s producers are always hungry for more sounds, but could Native Instruments have come up with the ultimate toolkit? Hollin Jones gets busy with Komplete 9… There are few companies that can rival Native More...
Cubase 7 Review
C ubase remains one of the most popular and best known DAWs around, and you can trace its lineage back to the days when people first started making music with computers. It had a complete rewrite around a decade More...
Native Instruments TRAKTOR DJ For iPad First Review
Here’s an exclusive Music Tech.net review of the newly released Native Instruments’ TRAKTOR DJ app for iPad. By Liam O’Mullane: TRAKTOR PRO for Mac or PC, is without a More...
Sonar X2 Producer Review
Cakewalk’s SONAR, now owned by Roland, is one of the industry’s longest-running DAWs, having been around for almost as long as it has been possible to make music with computers. The last major update – X1 More...
ARC 2 Review
The ARC system, from IK Multimedia, is claimed to be the first DAW-based acoustic room-correction plug-in with 64-bit native plug-in compatibility. The system is based on Audyssey MultEQ XT32 patented technology More...
Mixcraft Pro Studio 6 Review
When we reviewed Mixcraft 5 two years ago, we considered it a very impressive low-cost recording package with a staggering array of features. Originally fashioned after GarageBand, its easy-to-navigate GUI and More...
Statix FX Review
Most of the Sound FX sample packs we get sent here at Music Tech are based around bombastic, in-your-face synth build-ups and intense robotic glitches. However, Static FX, from Samplephonics, is a little different, More...
R_Mem Review
There are two approaches to processing. The first aims to make a sound the best it can be. This is when EQ, compression and the usual mixing tools will come into play. Then there’s the second approach – that More...
Bass Pedals Review
Bass Pedals is the second meticulously sampled analogue instrument from Wave Alchemy, a company best known for its extensive libraries of carefully crafted drum hits. Where the first instrument took apart the classic More...
