The Seventh Annual Remix Technology Awards

INDIVIDUAL PLUG-IN

Universal Audio Moog Multimode Filter
Put some of the biggest brains in hardware synthesis together with some of the craziest crainiums in software emulation, and you predictably get the mind-melting creaminess of this filter plug-in, which combines the classic sound of Bob Moog’s most famous filters with features from the Moog Voyager synth.

EFFECT/DYNAMIC HARDWARE

TL Audio Fat Track Tube Production Suite
With all the tube stank of a Crest factory, the Fat Track drops thick, vintage-console sound in the laps of bedroom and smallstudio producers. With 3-band EQ, flexible monitoring options and plenty of analog I/O, it covers you for tracking, analog summing and even mastering.

BEST HARDWARE VALUE

Novation Nocturn
This year should be a huge one for two things: unemployment lines and this killer universal plugin controller. Novation’s Automap technology makes building a library of custom control maps for all of your plug-ins (or other MIDI software and hardware) simple, and at only $149 MSRP, this is a great product that your broke ass can still afford.

HARDWARE SYNTHESIZER

Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ‘08
This 8-voice synthesizer with a 100-percent analog signal path uses the same Curtis filter chips as in Dave Smith’s classic SCI Prophet-5, but it’s not mired in the ways of the past. Its modern feature set includes a 4-by-16-step gated sequencer and unparalleled modulation abilities.

AUDIO EDITOR

BIAS Peak Pro 6
In a year fraught with excellent major upgrades to audio editors, Peak Pro 6 wooed voters with its redesigned interface, large pack of bundled plug-ins, and dozens of new features and improvements, including the Vbox sound-design tools.

MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCT

Trinity Audio Group Indamixx
Open-source software is about as punk as (legal) computer geekery gets, which makes the Indamixx, a tiny touch-screen music computer preloaded with a full array of open-source programs, the Johnny Rotten of our world. However, Trinity has already topped itself with a more powerful Indamixx model coming in the form of a mini-laptop for only $500.