Review: iZotope Alloy Dynamics/Channel Strip Plug-in

Markkus Rovito puts iZotope’s Alloy plug-in through its paces, finding it extremely useful to both the seasoned pro, your cousin Moe, and the average Joe.

Review: Quantum Leap Silk Virtual Instrument

Quantum Leap Silk encompasses traditional acoustic instruments from the Silk Road trade route first established during the time of Ghengis Khan, spanning China, India and Persia.

Free Stuff: Embrace the Inner Miser and Rebel Against Consumer Confidence!

This run down of recent free music goodies includes some items that require previous software or hardware purchases, but they’re still bargains by any stretch.

A ‘Verb-al Agreement: Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Plug-in Bundle

Warning: nostalgia alert! In my early days of reading gear magazines in the late ’90s, I saw the Lexicon PCM 80 multi-effects and PCM 90 digital reverb units turning up in the studio lists for a lot of big-name drum ‘n’ bass and other electronic and rock artists I was paying attention to.

Choir-izer Plug-ins: Virsyn Klon and Antares Harmony EFX

This week, a couple of vocal harmony plug-ins popped up, both with introductory price offer. Virsyn Klon and Antares Harmony EFX.

Native Instruments Komplete 6: Heavy-hitting software bundle’s price drops like a brick

Sometimes, and especially in the last two years, price breakthroughs are more exciting than technology breakthroughs in new music products. In September, Native Instruments announced Komplete 6, which retails for less than half the price of Komplete 5.

Presonus Studio One Pro and Studio One Artist — New DAW on the block wants to be your one and only

As a journalist, the one business I wouldn’t be starting right now is a newspaper, and as a musician, the area I wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot USB stick would be DAW software.

Flavor of the Week: Korg SV-1 Stage Vintage Piano, MicroSample and Wavedrum — This Tasty New Trio Rekindles Hardware Lust

While I often like to champion obscure software from boutique companies and the idea of keeping your studio compact and efficient (as much out of necessity due to a cramped apartment than out of a sense of resourcefulness), I’m still occasionally as susceptible to the charms of hot new hardware as a drunken businessman is [...]

Flavor of the Week: Roland AX-Synth Shoulder Synthesizer

I can hear the sighs, chortles and disgusted grunts already, and lovers of the conventional wisdom can settle deeper into their self-satisfied stance that only wussies or total dorks would be caught dead playing a keytar. I will relent that a lot of wussies and/or cheeseballs probably have played keytars, but if the efforts from [...]

Flavor of the Week: U&I Software MetaSynth 5 — Virtual Instrument & Sound Design Workstation

When I first learned about MetaSynth in 1998, it seemed like an appropriate example of the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

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