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...
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...
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...
CDP's Composers Desktop Project 4.5 (CDP) is a huge sound-processing library that has been in development for personal computers since 1986. CDP includes...
Nomad Factory's Blue Tubes VST Bundle 1.01 ($156; available for download at www.nomadfactory.com) is a collection of six commonly used processors for...
Polish developer Professional Sound Projects (PSP) has introduced a plug-in emulation of Lexicon's PCM 42 hardware, and it bears investigation. But first,...
Going head-to-head with TC Works' PowerCore system (reviewed in the April 2002 EM), Mackie has introduced the UAD-1 Powered Plug-Ins bundle, another option...
BeatBurner (Win; $50; www.beatburner.com) is an addictive VST plug-in that can be used to lightly touch up or completely revamp a loop in real time. BeatBurner...
PSPaudioware.com's VintageWarmer ($149) is a plug-in emulation of an analog multiband compressor. It is available in VST and DXi formats for the PC as...
Imagine using a sample editor to change a vocal melody from major to minor or to accent the third beat of every measure using an amplitude boost. Sound...
Waves is renowned for its high-quality software plug-ins and hardware processors. I use Waves tools almost every day. However, when I heard that Waves...
In the early 1980s, I had the pleasure of conceiving and designing a true classic, the Lexicon PCM42 digital delay. At that time, I was interested in...
Tech 21 designed the SansAmp XDI ($95) primarily as an interface for its PSA-1 Pro Tools plug-in the software version of the company's popular PSA-1 guitar...
Dutch developer Audio Ease recently broke new ground with Altiverb, the first real-time reverb plug-in that bases its presets on sampled acoustics. As...
Ohm Force's multiplatform effects plug-ins OhmBoyz 1.20 and Predatohm 1.10 deliver some unusual twists to two common digital signal processing (DSP) effects:...
TC Works' PowerCore is a PCI card incorporating a Motorola PowerPC CPU and four Motorola 56362 digital signal processors. The PowerCore hardware comes...
German manufacturer RME attracted a lot of attention a couple of years ago when it released the Project Hammerfall audio interface, a PCI card that combined...
Download of the Month: BeatBurner
