• Blue Cat Audio PatchWork V2

    One of the most frustrating parts of music production is running into software incompatibility problems. Your Pro Tools-based studio needs plug-ins to be in the ...
  • IK Multimedia Syntronik 1.2 for Mac/PC and Syntronik for iPad

    After spending the past few years focused heavily on developing hardware products, we’re happy to see that IK Multimedia has put a renewed development effort ...
  • XILS-lab PolyKB III

    Here in the U.S., perhaps XILS-lab doesn’t come to mind as quickly as other European software plugin companies, but we are thinking more and more ...
  • UVI Urban Suite

    We are always on the lookout for cool sounding virtual instruments. UVI has a number of intriguing plug-ins, and one that definitely exceeded our expectations ...
  • Applied Acoustic Systems Strum GS-2

    Six years ago, we reviewed the first iterations of Strum (see review here). We thought it was a very good sounding virtual instrument, particularly remarkable ...
  • Umlaut Audio PADS and ARPS

    Umlaut Audio may be not be familiar to many keyboard players, but they are certainly on their way. PADS and ARPS are two of their ...
  • UVI Falcon

    UVI is an interesting company, somewhat quietly producing quite a large number of quality sounding plug-ins. What some of you may not know is that ...
  • AAS Chromaphone 2 Acoustic Object Synthesizer

    When we reviewed the first release of Applied Acoustic Systems’ original Chromaphone, we were skeptical about it at first but came away very impressed with ...
  • Applied Acoustic Systems Strum GS-2

    Six years ago, we reviewed the first iterations of Strum (see review here). We thought it was a very good sounding virtual instrument, particularly remarkable ...
  • IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik 2

    We reviewed the original Miroslav Philharmonik in 2007, and it quickly became our go-to orchestra plug-in. Multiple people on our team have used the original ...