Eventide has re-created its original ground-breaking processors in plug-in form. Dubbed the Clockworks Legacy Bundle, this group of five plug-ins for Mac-based Pro Tools TDM systems brings a seventies vibe to a desktop near you....
Trillium Lane Labs TL EveryPhase is a phaser plug-in for Pro Tools systems. It supports RTAS and TDM formats and offers some unique processing features....
With all of the contemporary pop and R&B songs that he mixes, Dave Pensado has become a huge fan of plug-in effects. In the April 2004 EM cover story,...
A studio pro explains how split-band (aka multiband) compression works and how it can improve your mixes and solve everyday audio problems. Then he looks at several choices you have when selecting a split-band compressor...
Devine Machine Software's Devine Machine is a loop-manipulation tool that gives users unprecedented control over multiple loops in real time. Because...
France’s INA-GRM has been producing innovative sound-processing software for a number of years. Starting in the 1990s with their original GRM Tools standalone application and continuing to more recent TDM plug-ins, they’ve earned a reputation for powerful and imaginative products. The new GRM Tools ST (Spectral Transform; VST $399, RTAS/HTDM/AS/VST bundle, $549) is the latest installment in the evolution of their processing tools....
SFX Machine RT ($150) carries on the tradition of Earl Vickers's extremely versatile SFX Machine plug-in (formerly in Adobe Premiere format). RT stands for real time, which is the big change in this new version that now comes in VST (OS 8 and 9, OS X, Win) and Audio Units (OS X) plug-in formats....
A quick look at the plug-in marketplace reveals that EQ plug-in prices are all over the map. Is there a correlation between price and performance? How much difference is there in sound quality among the different EQs? And are some types of EQ better than others?...
Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition is a VST instrument plug-in that plays electric guitar samples. Like the original Virtual Guitarist, VG EE effectively substitutes for a rhythm guitarist when you’re sequencing tracks in a DAW. It also includes Virtual Guitarist Electric FX, a pedalboard plug-in for processing guitar sounds....
We’ve scoured the Web for the past few months, checking out all sorts of freeware and shareware that creative programmers have made available for little or no money. We’ll focus primarily on newer software, though a few of our old favorites have received major facelifts recently, and we’ll include them as well....
We’ve scoured the Web for the past few months, checking out all sorts of freeware and shareware that creative programmers have made available for little or no money. We’ll focus primarily on newer software, though a few of our old favorites have received major facelifts recently, and we’ll include them as well....
A review of AmpliTube, from IK Multimedia, an effects plug-in that models guitar amplifiers, speaker cabinets, and effects processors. It supports VST, HTDM, RTAS, and DX formats....
A great many audio restoration products are available at nearly every price point, running native on Macs and PCs as well as on high-powered custom hardware....
Destroy FX (DFX) offers an impressive collection of effects plug-ins by programmers Marc Poirier and Tom Murphy. All DFX plug-ins are free, but donations...
offers a number of sharewhare VSTi soft synths that use subtractive synthesis techniques as well as newer techniques, such as physical modeling and wave shaping. The instruments include the the JunoX2 , Beast, QuadraSID, PlastiCZ, and Slayer....
Some products make our lives easier simply by doing one thing and doing it right. Wavemachine Labs' Drumagog 3.0 ($269) is just such a product. It's a...
Izotope Ozone (Win, $199; upgrade, $49) is a 64-bit DirectX mastering plug-in. Version 2 adds more than 30 new features, including 5 different noise-shaped...
Since its release in 1999, Cycling '74's Pluggo has become a popular tool in music recording and production studios around the world. This is due in large...
