Sound On Sound is the world's best recording technology magazine, packed full of in-depth, independent product tests, including music software, studio hardware, keyboards and live sound (PA) gear. Every issue also includes SOS's unique step-by-step tutorial and technique columns on all the leading DAW programs, as well as insightful interviews with leading producers, engineers and musicians.

THE DEATH OF LIVE?

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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.

APS Klasik 2020 £950

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

ALTERNATIVES

Avid Pro Tools | Carbon £3839

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

AAX DSP FTW

Talk Back: Steph Marziano

Gear Of The Year! • The SOS team pick their highlights from recent hardware and software launches.

Audient EVO 4 & EVO 8 £99 & £159

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

Arturia Modulations €99 each

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

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 £2195

Voice Assign

Unison

Bootloading

MPE (Nearly)

MATT BERRY SONGWRITER & PRODUCER • Perhaps best known for his television work, Matt Berry’s true love has always been music and the analogue instruments he uses to make it.

Avantone CLA-10A £1150

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

ALTERNATIVES

ZOOM 5.2.2 The Musicians’ Update • The hugely successful teleconferencing platform Zoom has had some small but significant updates, making it even more useful to musicians in lockdown.

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

iZotope RX8

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

Tascam Model 12 £589

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

ALTERNATIVES

APPLE SILICON What Does It Mean For You? • Apple recently announced a transition in the Mac’s hardware architecture that promises to be the most significant in the product’s history. But how will this affect musicians and audio engineers?

Developer Transition Kit

Mojave MA-50 £560

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