Plug-ins

By Barry Rudolph ⋅ Published: 03/01/2004

The polymaths at iZotope, the company that came up with the innovative Spectron and Trash plug-ins, have significantly redesigned the manufacturer's popular Ozone 2...

By Barry Rudolph ⋅ Published: 03/01/2004

We've always thought of Waves as a manufacturer of solid, straightforward studio tools, but recently, the company has branched out with some really creative...

By By John McJunkin ⋅ Published: 02/01/2004

Berlin-based Native Instruments is known for its innovative approach to software synthesis, with unique sound creation tools that appeal across the professional spectrum, from...

By By John McJunkin ⋅ Published: 08/01/2003

Virtual Vocoder/Processor/Synth/Sampler Today, improved technology has resulted in much more powerful vocoders than their disco/new wave-era counterparts ever hoped to be.

By Kevin Becka ⋅ Published: 07/01/2003

It would be hard to find anyone who's worked in and around pro studios during the past 30 years who hasn't used an Eventide...

By Michael Cooper ⋅ Published: 07/01/2003

PSPaudioware's VintageWarmer plug-in delivers creamy-sounding dynamics processing in two flavors: via its wideband compression (with shelving pre-equalization) and multiband compression modes (the latter followed...

By By Erik Hawkins ⋅ Published: 06/01/2003

There are plenty of native virtual instruments in a rainbow of formats, but the development of software instruments for TDM has been largely neglected.

By Robert Hanson ⋅ Published: 05/01/2003

Have you ever sat there in front of the console, putting the final touches on a track, and felt like something was missing?