Andy Dollerson Archive
software reviews
Reverb is an essential effect for mix and sound design. Accordingly, it seems there are an infinite number of reverb plugins at your disposal. Fabfilter have just added
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software reviews
Spectrasonics definitely don’t rush their libraries of instruments, and with good reason: it takes a long time to make such massive, excellent musical tools. Keyscape is no exception.
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hardware reviews
StudioLogic earlier this year released some new master controller keyboards. They kindly sent us the SL88 Studio to review. So without further ado… The Studiologic SL88 Studio Keyboard:
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software reviews
The Unfinished (Matt Bowdler) and Sonic Mayhem (Sascha Dikiciyan) have teamed up for this set of presets for Native Instruments Massive and Absynth. 128 presets each, they take
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software reviews
I reviewed the Arturia V collection a while back, and while I was totally impressed with the sound, the reliability of the products made me hesitant to use
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software reviews
LEVELS is a mix metering plugin designed to give quick and easy to access information on all the elements of a good mix; the aim being to discern
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software reviews
Izotope RX5 is an industry standard software system for treating audio for the issues that can often appear in any recordings for music and sound design. RX 5
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software reviews
Output libraries are some of our favourite sample libraries at the moment; they are contemporary without being too ‘here today gone tomorrow’ sounding, but most importantly, both inspiring
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software reviews
Even though the software instrument market is exploding, and you can barely move for the plethora of absolutely fantastic tools that are at your disposal, I still feel
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software reviews
The idea for the new Madrona Labs synth/effect processor, Virta, first came about after a conversation about how to make expressiveness and dynamics more immediate when it cames
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software reviews
Sample Logic are continuing their trend of making very large sample libraries that blur boundaries between digital and analog, music and sound design. Morphestra 2 is based on
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software reviews
Myriad has been created by Audiofile (or Audiofile Engineering, as they used to be called in the past), based in Minneapolis. Myriad is heralded as the ultimate audio
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software reviews
I have been using the Cableguys Volumeshaper plugin in many of my recent projects. It’s so useful for emulating side-chain effects, yet having more precise control over waveshape
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books
BadCat samples founder Marcus Huyskens joined forces with Emmett Cooke of VSTBuzz and Sam Windell of FrozenPlain to release an educational pack containing a large pile of content
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software reviews
Sample Logic is a solid sample library company that has been delivering massive sound libraries for a decade. Its focus has always been on blurring the lines between
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