Paul White

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | Kontakt Instrument |Paul White

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 StarsBack in 2020, Dave Stewart reviewed the original Poiesis Cello for Kontakt, from Sonora Cinematic, and he had a lot of very good things to say about it. Rather than straightforward cello notes, the library comprises atmospheric articulations performed by principal cellist Alan Black, so although the note might not change throughout the duration of a sample, the playing technique is often varied to give the samples an evolving, cinematic quality.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | Paul White

Ted Fletcher breathes new life into this venerable old name. Ted Fletcher has been involved in a number of audio companies over the years. He designed the original Alice consoles, for example, and was behind both the original JoeMeek and TFPro brands, whose gear earned plaudits. Today, Ted’s again designing for Alice, who recently acquired the PYE brand name, and he was invited to design and build a high‑end stereo compressor that would be worthy of the old name.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | Paul White

EasyVerb 2 has a very different look from PSPaudioware’s original EasyVerb, along with an enhanced feature set. It supports AU, VST, VST3 and AAX formats on macOS and Windows, and uses iLok protection (hardware iLok or machine‑based). Once you have a PSP account set up, you can also avail yourself of the free PSP Chamber plug‑in, which has a red rather than blue GUI — this runs only the chamber algorithm, but is otherwise identical to EasyVerb 2.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | Paul White

Softube's plug-in version of the Drawmer 1976 offers three‑band saturation and stereo widening. My first encounter with three‑band saturation was when reviewing the Drawmer Masterflow 2476 hardware processor, way back in SOS October 1999.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | Paul White

Not sure which type of delay might best suit your song? German plug‑in developers HOFA might be able to help you solve that dilemma, as their Colour Delay not only offers a choice of Tape, Bucket Brigade, Digital and Destruction delay types, but also allows these styles to be combined before further treatment by some onboard effects. It supports all the common plug‑in formats for Mac and Windows machines, and can be authorised to run on two computers.