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Waves Kaleidoscopes Modulation Plug-in • Waves breathe a little freshness into the familiar.

Austrian Audio Hi-X50 Closed-back Headphones • AA’s latest cans employ their successful high-excursion driver in a new on-ear design.

Black Rooster Audio KH-COMP1 Compressor Plug-in • This characterful compressor offers a little more control than most ‘vibe machines’.

SoundMorph Dust Synthesizer & Effect Plug-in • SoundMorph’s Dust takes an interplanetary approach to granular resynthesis.

Toontrack Legacy Of Rock SDX & Classic Rock EZX Expansions For Superior Drummer & EZdrummer • Toontrack recapture the drums of rock’s golden age with a little help from Eddie Kramer.

Arturia Modulations Modulation Plug-ins • Arturia add some helpful extras to their models of three classic analogue modulation effects.

Arturia Modulations $99 each

APS Klasik 2020 Active Nearfield Monitor • The revised Klasik from Polish company APS offers exceptional performance at a remarkably low price.

APS Klasik 2020 $1099

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Avid Pro Tools | Carbon Computer Recording System • Avid’s innovative ‘hybrid’ audio interface promises to banish latency for good.

Avid Pro Tools | Carbon $3999

AAX DSP FTW

Tascam Model 12 Mixer, Multitrack Recorder & USB Audio Interface • Tascam have done far more than shrink the Model 24.

Tascam Model 12 $600

UDO Audio Super 6 Polyphonic Synthesizer • UDO Audio’s highly anticipated debut instrument is a synthesizer with a sound all of its own.

UDO Audio Super 6 $2800

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Avantone CLA-10A Nearfield Active Monitors • Avantone’s take on the classic NS-10 is now available in powered form. We fire it up...

Avantone CLA-10A $999

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Audient EVO 4 & EVO 8 USB Audio Interfaces • Are Audient’s minimalist EVOs smarter than the average audio interface?

Audient EVO 4 & EVO 8 $129 & $199

iZotope RX8 Audio Restoration Software For Mac & Windows • Once again, iZotope have raised the benchmark for affordable audio restoration.

iZotope RX8

TC Electronic Finalizer Mastering Software For Mac OS and Windows • The processor that revolutionised home mastering is at last available in software form.

TC Electronic Finalizer $199

Free Online Analysis

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Spitfire Audio Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations • Sample Library Spitfire’s latest project marks a new partnership with an iconic London studio.

Spitfire Audio Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations $449

Things To Come

Not-so-shabby Road

Mojave MA-50 Cardioid Microphone • Mojave’s most affordable mic yields great results on a wide range of sources.

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Mojave MA-50 $599

ALTERNATIVES

MODULAR

Patching Panda Moon Phase • Eurorack Module

IO-Instruments Sponde • Eurorack Module

Heavyocity Damage 2 • Sample Library Heavyocity’s commando percussion team return to the sound stage tooled up and looking for something to break.

Heavyocity Damage 2 $399

Skywalker Sound

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Audified VocalMint Compressor • One-knob Compressor...