Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine that operates independently and is published by SOS Publications Group in Cambridge, UK. The magazine features reviews of electronic music performance and recording equipment, along with interviews with professionals in the industry. With its emphasis on technical details, it primarily targets the professional recording studio sector, as well as artist project studios and home recording fans. Since January 1994, the magazine has made all its news and articles available online on its website, often enhanced with multimedia elements like videos and audio clips related to the articles.

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Studio One: Cinematic Lights

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Robin Vincent

We explore the new Cinematic Lights virtual instrument. In January's v7.1 Studio One update, PreSonus gifted us a new virtual instrument called Cinematic Lights. It’s designed to blend heavily processed strings and brass with synth, modular and environmental elements to offer complex textures, smooth transformations and multiple layers of movie magic. Cinematic Lights is based on the core Presence XT engine and so is essentially a multisampled instrument library.
Inside Track: Producing & Mixing Ghost

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Paul Tingen

Swedish hard rock band Ghost have topped charts worldwide — with an album that was mixed twice!“One of the most interesting things of my career happened in November last year,” reports Dan Malsch. “Andy Wallace and I had mixed the entire Ghost album, Skeletá, over three weeks in August 2024 at my Soundmine Recording Studio in Pennsylvania, on my SSL 4000 desk. A few weeks later I received a call asking whether I could come to Stockholm and touch up all the mixes.
Xvive More You

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Robin Vincent

Xvive’s ingenious modular interface puts foldback in the hands of the performers. The Xvive More You is one of those rare finds: an audio interface with a unique feature. It has the uncommon ability to expand and daisy‑chain itself into a whole band’s worth of personal monitoring and recording. While the name may make it feel playful and toy‑like, the reality of the system is far from it, and the more you get into it, the more problems it appears to solve.
Multi-Tier Keyboard Stands

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Luke Wood

Is your synth collection spiralling out of control?
Soundtoys SpaceBlender

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Paul White

New Soundtoys plug‑ins don’t come around that often, but when they do, they’re usually well worth checking out. SpaceBlender is no exception... Both the algorithmic and convolution approaches to artificial reverb are now capable of incredibly convincing emulations of real spaces. But ‘real’ isn’t always what we want, is it?
Void & Vista Frames

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Dave Gale

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5/5 StarsContinuing their reputation for unique and inspiring Kontakt instruments, Void & Vista’s latest release is framed as “an exploration of experimental sounds, prepared instruments and extended techniques”. That’s quite a statement, but by design, V&V’s sonic offering is simplistic and engaging, thanks to the uncluttered interface which un‑hides parameters as you go. At the heart of each Snapshot (patch) is a two‑partial construct.
FlatSix Seventh Summoner

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Robin Vincent

FlatSix captured my imagination last year with the Arp Of Darkness. I was so enraptured by the simple yet fascinating functionality that I made it my Sound On Sound pick of the year. FlatSix have released another module based on the same hardware but with a distinct firmware. It’s called the Seventh Summoner, and I was keen to see if it could hit the same high notes.
Newfangled Audio Articulate

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Paul White

With four stages to play with, Articulate offers a little more control over the attack and sustain of a sound than most other transient shapers. Newfangled Audio’s Articulate, which is available through Eventide, is authorised using an iLok account, either to your computer or to a physical iLok key, whichever you prefer. It supports the usual plug‑in formats for Mac and Windows DAWs.So What Is It?
XAOC Devices Lublin

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Chelsea Bruno

The Lublin 1957 from XAOC Devices is a two‑channel pingable VCA module with three ping responses and a gain limiting circuit to prevent peaking or distortion. For anyone who doesn’t know, a pingable VCA has a Ping input which makes it possible to trigger short envelopes, useful for creating shortened sounds with a slightly rounded attack while retaining their harmonic value. The Lublin also has an Exponential input, meaning it can perform more conventional VCA duties.
Teletone Audio Tone Architect

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | Paul White

Teletone Audio’s Tone Architect might, at first glance, look like just another take on the old channel‑strip idea. But in reality it is quite different, and its main focus is on tonal shaping. Tone Architect, which supports all the mainstream plug‑in formats for macOS and Windows, offers a sensible balance between flexibility and ease of use, and combines three key processing sections called Saturator, Tone Shaping and Compressor.