43 Results for "sound"

The Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Joe Bonamassa – Sound and Gear

There are guitarists who are virtuosos and those who are sound tinkerers. And then there's Joe. We take a look at Joe Bonamassa's gear.

IK Multimedia T-RackS 6 features 8 New Processors

Now in version 6, IK Multimedia T-RackS expands with bass management, multiband saturation, advanced delay processing, and much more.

Boom Library / Boom Interactive sale: 20% off sound design plug-ins

Boom Interactive and Boom Library products are discounted by 20% until August 31, 2022. Get some plug-ins and sound libraries!

Samples of the week: Beat Machine, Vienna MIR Pro 3D, Empire Breaks

Samples of the week is here with new releases by IK Multimedia, Vienna MIR Pro 3D, Native Instruments, Rast Sound (VoxPlay), and freebies!

Samples of the week: Essential Bass, Electric Mint, Plankton, more

Samples of the week time! We report on 6 virtual basses from the collection of multi-instrumentalist Dan Dean and other good stuff.

Samples of the week: Lores, Soul Drums, Winds Boutique and more

Samples? Here we go with this week's crop of sample packs and sample-based instruments. As always, there are also free downloads. Have fun!

Samples of the week: Polaris, Polyscape 2, Voices of Wind and Freebies

This week, the samples party has Polaris and Polyscape 2 turning strings into radical sound generators. We have some freebies in there, too!

Pigments 3: New harmonics, utilities, wavetables, Jupiter-8 filter and more

"Revolutionary" new synth? A solid update, more like. Arturia's Pigments 3 adds Harmonic and Utility engines, Wavetables, a Jupiter-8 filter and new FX.

Give your drums some Backbone with Steinberg’s new drum designer and re-synthesizer

Steinberg has released Backbone a drum design tool that will level-up the way you generate drums with multiple layers of samples and re-synthesis in a neat and colourful interface.

Blind Noise: a touch-synthesizer that works on muscle memory

Out of the madness of Error Instruments comes Blind Noise, an experimental touchable synthesizer designed with the visually impaired in mind while being fun for everyone to play with.

When does ‘brown’ guitar tone get too brown? Dropping voltage to get the EVH sound

When does the 'Brown Sound' get too, well, brown? Guitar tone chaser Joan Segeborn has taken an old Marshall head and cabs and run them through a Variac, taking us brown sound tone adventure.

Soundbrenner Core: 4-in-1 smart watch for the gigging musician

Forget your iWatch and your phone apps, strap a useful tool to your wrist. The Soundbrenner Core has a pulsing metronome, a magnetic tuner, decibel meter, multi-sync, DAW sync and even tells the time.

Modular Synthesis School idea floated on Kickstarter

Modular Moon wants to open a Modular Synthesis School in Amsterdam to teach synthesis, sound and DIY modular to new generations of modular fiddlers. Is Kickstarter the best way to raise funds?

Melody Puzzle Modular Synthesizer: playful 8-bit handmade patch machine

A conundrum of a modular synthesizer waiting to be puzzled over. The Melody Puzzle experimentally patches together all sorts of combinations in the hope of finding the solution to your musical yearnings.

Love Hultén Noistation hand crafted space synthesizer

With the Axoloti core and Patcher software, Noistation can use many forms of synthesis and generate all sorts of sounds while being a fabulous looking piece of future-retro space furniture.

BBC archives release 16,016 sound effects online for personal use

An extraordinary historical archive of environmental sounds and sound effects. From every day sounds like "Department store atmosphere" to "Geiger counters" and "Austin Maestro dashboard audible warnings".

Wusik Station v9 music software is out with ample updates, affordable price

Wusik Station is a popular all-in-one audio workstation and effects processor. Version 9 of the software is out now, with ample updates across the board, a new single-file installer, and new readymade sounds.

Audified and DW Drums present DW Drum Enhancer, a shortcut to fine drum sounds

DW Drum Enhancer is designed to effectively streamline and simplify the typical drum processing chain by automatically applying appropriate settings for its in-built EQ, compression, and gate modules...

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier vs Line6 Helix: Can you hear the difference?

Take this blind test and see if you can hear the difference between a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier and a Line 6 Helix LT.

Ecosystem: Semi-modular environment for Max For Live

Ecosystem contains an organic, interconnected array of oscillating waveshapes, modulatable effects and automatable controllers. Patch it together into an evolving environment of sounds and discovery.

Cycling ’74 announce Max 8 coming after Ableton Live 10

With Ableton Live 10 absorbing Max for Live Cycling '74 are using that development and testing time to evolve the full version of their music application builder and bring us Max 8.

AES 2017: JBL 7 Series powered studio monitors now available

First announced at NAMM early this year, the JBL 7 Series comprises four models covering most common music, post, and broadcast production scenarios. They are finally available for sale now...

SynthFest UK 2017: show report

Sheffield hosted the second UK SynthFest on the 7th October presented by Sound On Sound magazine. I walked the floor, played with all manner of synths and noise machines and met the people who made them.

The Zoom ARQ AR-48 Aero RhythmTrak is ready for lift-off

A cross between a disco lamp and an all-in-one audio workstation, the Zoom ARQ AR-48 Aero RhythmTrak is a production and live performance instrument that looks like something from a toy store...