The subject of consuming music outside of the accepted norm of stereo is a subject close to my heart. I’ve long advocated multi-channel audio and alternative methods of listening to and recording music. One of these methods is binaural recording. This is a fairly simple process whereby the sound is recorded via two discrete channels [...]

In what is an unprecedented, yet completely welcome, move by our friends across the English Channel, UVI have released their first ever “Try Before You Buy” version of one of their major product lines. And it’s their latest and greatest one too, Vintage Legends. This 233MB download contains a .ufs file that you can use [...]

Prince famously announced a few years ago that the internet was dead. Now, there once was a time when the world sat up and listened to stuff Prince said, but on this particular matter, we all knew he was wrong. It was merely his reaction to something that, whilst trying to embrace, and becoming a [...]

Well, isn’t January turning into a month of comebacks!? Although, it is fair to say that Adam Ant’s return to studio recording some 18 years after 1995′s “Wonderful”, for his ninth studio album, is somewhat less of a surprise than that of Mr Bowie. But has it been worth the pain, anguish and wait? Let [...]

Unless you live in another universe or parallel dimension, you are probably well aware of the fact that, after 10 years away from the studio, 7 years away from a stage and the not too insignificant serious heart attack he suffered a few years ago, David Bowie has returned with an album of new music, [...]

Here’s a very quick demo I did of the UVI CS-M, available as part of their new Vintage Legends collection, just before I went to bed and just before Santa arrived! I couldn’t resist recreating one of my favourite pieces with this classic synth line… Full video reviews will follow in the coming days. I [...]

A suitably quirky and fantastically amusing Xmas greeting from our friends Dave Spiers and Chirs Macleod at GForce Software! Created using M-Tron Pro and various Optigan & Chamberlain add on packs.

The old saying goes, “There you are, waiting for a bus, nothing for ages then two come along at once”. Well, it should be brought up to date… “There you are, waiting for some new content from UVI, nothing for ages, then SIX come along at once! Oh, and an update to their UVI Workstation [...]

Right now, I am snowed under with reviewing UVI‘s latest library, ‘Vintage Legends‘ but I just got an email from another developer, AcousticSamples, who also compile libraries for the UVI engine which also includes MOTU‘s MachFive3 sampler as well as UVI’s own Workstation host. This little, and I use that word deliberately, gem is called [...]

Those crazy French sample library creators, UVI, have been letting slip a few teaser images over on their Facebook page. Judging by the wording, more is to come but this is what we have so far… First up, a Rhodes Chroma clone… Then we have something clearly inspired by Yamaha’s CS-M (20/40/70) range of analogue [...]