If you ask professionals who use Digidesign Pro Tools about their favorite effects plug-ins, chances are good that the name McDSP will be frequently mentioned....
Amp-modeling plug-ins have been available to electric guitarists for years. Some include a few presets for bass guitar, but software designed specifically...
For as long as people have been singing, many have hoped for some miracle that would make them sound like better singers than they really were. Powerful...
IK Multimedia AmpliTube received much praise as one of the first guitar-amplifier and -effects plug-ins. But it began showing its age as new guitarcentric...
Several years after its release of GuitarPort, Line 6 has released its next generation of USB guitar processors the TonePorts. Currently offered in two...
When Guitar Rig 1.0 was released last year, it garnered acclaim not only because it offered a large model collection and flexible routing structure, but...
The main goal when mixing is to make a vocal sit properly in the music so it doesn't sound overprocessed. That requires a person to have years of experience...
PSP MasterComp ($249) for Windows from PSP is a VST, DirectX, and RTAS compatible compressor plug-in. The stereo-mono MasterComp has a 64-bit floating-point...
The first thing you notice when you open TrackPlug 5 ($199), the latest version of Wave Arts' channel strip plug-in, is its snazzy new user interface....
As the name suggests, the Universal Audio Plate 140 reverb plug-in ($149), designed for use with the UAD-1 accelerator card, is modeled after the German-made...
PSP Audioware has come up with another top-notch delay-based plug-in. The PSP 608 MultiDelay ($149) is an 8-tap delay line with the great sound quality,...
Audio Ease, the first manufacturer to release a real-time convolution-reverb plug-in, started the convolution revolution in earnest with Altiverb. Initially...
Red Microphones (a division of Blue Microphones) was originally created to serve as a source for vintage mic parts. The first branded mic from Red Microphones...
After its introduction in 1998, Line 6's Pod probably did more to popularize the concept of digital guitar-amp modeling than any other product. But another...
Following in the footsteps of their hardware counterparts, more and more software developers have been putting out products that feature guitar-amp and effects modeling....
Eventide has released Octavox ($595), a TDM plug-in that brings the diatonic pitch-shifting algorithms of their hardware processors to the world of Pro...
Auto-Tune 4 is the most powerful, flexible, and user-friendly version yet of Antares's popular pitch-correction plug-in. It offers numerous new tools...
Eventide's succinctly named Reverb plug-in brings the reverb algorithms of their hardware-based processors to the world of Pro Tools plug-ins. Reverb...
SoundToys PhaseMistress is an analog-style phase shifter plug-in for Mac-based Pro Tools systems. PhaseMistress includes RTAS, AudioSuite, and HTDM versions of the plug-in and is compatible with Mac OS 9 and OS X. An iLok hardware key is required for copy protection....