The highlight of the month was undoubtedly the release of a new hardware instrument, the B4000+ organ. A miniaturized incarnation of an earlier Creamware 'Authentic Sound Box' product, but with improvements in sound and functionality. It is great to see Scope and it's related off-shoot companies such as Ferrofish and John Bowen's Solaris keep up the development in the instrumentation side of things, confirming Scope as the unique platform that it is.
Speaking of instruments, there are many instrumentalists using Scope including one from right here down under (Australia) called 'BassDude' using Scope to record the music of his band and his five string fretless bass. And let's not forget the ultimate keyboard 'Solaris', with JimmyVee giving us the low down on how it conquers all-comers and still doesn't fail to impress after several weeks of use (when the novelty normally wears off).
The fact is, with Scope, the novelty never wears off because there are always ways to extend it's functionality and with this in mind, we review four more record/mix/mastering plugins. The DAS 1610 Compressor we take for a spin side chain compressing a dance mix, the various Dynatube guitar amp combinations, Sonic Core's own ubiquitous EQ and last in the chain we explore the technique of multiband compression and some of the Scope plugins available to take on this job.
Finally, a small troubleshooting guide to aid with some solutions and common workarounds to installation issues that can come up with workstations running various combinations of Scope and Windows.
