It’s always a pleasure to test new equipment like headphones, controllers, synthesizers or speakers. Recently I put my hands on the ELZ_1, a synthesizer built by the Japanese company Sonicware. Initially presented at NAMM 2019 in January, ELZ_1 has attracted a lot of interest among the sound design and music enthusiasts. It is presented as […]
Output’s Movement Review Today I have something exciting! Output – the creator of Exhale, Signal & Rev X – has introduced Movement – a powerful real-time processor, designed for both studios and live performance. This is a little unexpected, since it’s their first pure effects plugin, even if have shown in all the previous libraries, […]
Mastering, a world where every morning just before dawn grey bearded audio wizards get into their Hi-tech squiggly air driven speaker spaceships and collect the magical rainbow unicorn dust that falls across the spectrumlands each night as it is this dust that powers their magical analog mastering desks which makes anything that comes out of […]
Harmor is the flagship VST synth for Image-line, the same people who brought us FL studio. For this review, I had the chance to play with the synth and learn a whole lot about sound design in the process. Early on one thing became very clear, Harmor is a beast with an immense amount of […]
The ALK2 by ZenAud.io is a looper/sequencer hybrid, which in my opinion, is an excellent live performance loop sequencer with the potential to become the go-to tool for many musicians, songwriters, and producers. Meet the ALK2 The new ALK2 looper/sequencer software must have been the user-friendliest music software that I’ve used this far. I’ve noticed […]
“The NEW Reformer Pro & Total Bundle 1” by Krotos Audio & Boom Libraries, Coll Anderson, and SoundBits What’s up, everyone! Today I want to show a total gem for all of the Sound Design freaks out there. If you read some of my reviews before, you know I’m really into that kinda thing, and […]
What’s up producers? Today I want to take a look at something really cool with you. NOIR, the latest release from Sonokinetic, that is quite a bit different from what they are known for so far. NOIR comes as a NI Kontakt virtual instrument with over 60.100+ SAMPLES! Some of you might have noticed, that in […]
We are pleased to present you a new plug-in that we tested and excited us with all of its capabilities. More specifically, we are talking about the Weiss DS1 MK3 plugins launched by Softube. Weiss DS1 MK3 it’s all in one mastering solution, an emulation of the legendary Weiss DS1 MK3 hardware unit. The original […]
Hi everyone. We’ve got a new “Gravity Pack” by Heavyocity to look at. It’s “Gravity Pack 05” and it’s not just any pack. It is Scoring Guitars 2! Yes, that’s right. They hear our prayers and made a second Scoring Guitars pack after the first one was easily one of the most sought-after and highly […]
Sonuscore is, of course, a name most of you will be familiar with, especially from libraries like “Action Strings” or “Action Strikes”, but Vocal Lyrical Phrases is the first voice base NI Kontakt libraries I’ve seen from them, and so I was naturally curious. So let’s dive in! What it is? As we can clearly […]