Many of us have been witnesses to a golden age of music tech, one in which digital music tools have come of age, developed their personalities, honed their craft, and become stone-cold masters of audio jiu jitsu. In the last decade or two, digital tools have gone from barely passable, to completely viable, to indispensible and widely adopted.
Last issue we explored some of the most innovative software based on ‘old’ sounds: analog circuit components, amp simulators and reverbs. While the technology of these are sopshisticated enough to make a time-traveling 1970s mixing engineer fall to their knees, the tools would still
