Jesse Gay Archive

It can be challenging to make a multidimensional sampled orchestral string instrument. There are a number of titles that can do bombastic or single-dimension strings reasonably well, but

With FM4 Primal Audio accomplished 2 seemingly mutually exclusive tasks. They’ve created an credible instrument based on the original Yamaha DX series (complete with all its idiosyncrasies), yet

Wave Alchemy established a strong precedent with their Transistor Revolution MkII Kontakt instrument. It’s my go-to sample-based instrument for 808 and 909 sounds that approach (and in some

Native Instruments has partnered with Swedish modeling wizards Softube to release Vintage Compressors. Their VC76, VC2A, and VC160 are based on 3 studio classics, the Universal Audio 1176,

Here we are again, more news from NAMM 2011… Vintage Vibe Electric Piano Last year we saw the rebirth of the Rhodes Piano from the re-formed the Rhodes

Earlier this year I reviewed Aether 1.5, the flagship reverb plugin from 2CAudio. It was (and still is) my favorite algorithmic reverb. However, sometimes its powerful/complex architecture can

I just found my favorite reverb plugin. In fact, Aether 1.5 (OS X and Windows, AU, VST, and soon RTAS plug-in, no PPC version) may be my favorite