Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.

← XLR MAG Archive

Sample Library ReviewGear

Westwood Instruments Releases Trinity Brass

11.11

Westwood Instruments has released Trinity Brass, the third and final instalment in its Trinity Ensemble series of hybrid orchestral instruments, following Trinity Strings and Trinity Winds.

Orchestral & acoustic

Read at Sample Library Review ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Westwood Instruments Releases Trinity Brass

Related

GearBlack FREE-DAY Part 1 • Free VSTs, Kontakt Instrument, Decent Sampler | Acoustic & Keyboards Sample Library Review

GearImpact Soundworks Releases Lamina Orchestral Textures Sample Library Review

GearStewart Copeland is bringing Police Deranged For Orchestra to Australia in 2027 Mixdown

ScenesSTEWART COPELAND: POLICE DERANGED FOR ORCHESTRA TOUR IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA Australian Musician

EuropeSmiodair – England/Ireland France Tour 2026 UK Jazz News

EuropeSoweto Kinch and the LSO – ‘Trilogy’ Live at the Barbican UK Jazz News