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Sound on SoundVideoAvid introduce Pro Tools 2026.11 Pro Tools 2026.11 introduces built-in stem separation, a new Extensions format that brings an assortment of third-party sound libraries and creative tools directly into the Pro Tools environment…

Sound on SoundVideoGForce launch Oberheim Matrix-12 Designed in collaboration with Oberheim and Marcus Ryle, GForce's latest instrument is the only official software version of the Matrix-12 and Xpander, and pairs the iconic instrument’s modulation…

Sound on SoundVideoApple MacBook Pro PROLED XDR: First Impressions Apple's newly announced MacBook Pro features a cutting-edge tandem OLED display with touch — both firsts for the Mac.

Sound on SoundVideoAllen & Heath announce the Qu-3 & Qu-3D Allen & Heath's new Qu-3 & Qu-3D consoles are said to be perfectly suited to a wide range of tasks including corporate AV, broadcast, installed audio, live sound and home recording.

Sound on SoundVideoUniversal Audio capture Capitol Studios Universal Audio’s latest native room-modelling and reverb plug-in captures the sound of one of the world’s most iconic recording facilities, Capitol Studios.

Sound on SoundVideoSteinberg unveil Cubase 16 Steinberg have just launched the latest version of their award-winning music-focused DAW, kitting it out with a vast set of new recording, editing, sequencing, composing and mixing tools.

Sound on SoundVideoebbandflow introduce deCADE Built on the same framework as deFORM, deCADE comes packed with iconic sounds, and aims to offer a far more convenient and cost-effective option than sourcing, fixing and maintaining the real things.

Sound on SoundVideoModartt add YFX Japanese Grand to Pianoteq Modartt’s much-loved virtual piano suite has just been treated to another update, gaining a new instrument pack that recreates the sound of a popular Japanese-made grand piano.

Sound on SoundVideoExpressive E release GForce Collection GForce Collection brings together GForce’s MAP and Prophet-5 plug-ins, pairing each of them with 250 presets that take full advantage of the MPE protocol.

Sound on SoundVideoiZotope introduce Photon Developed in collaboration with Boris FX, Photon is capable of splitting music into four stems, separating drum tracks into individual elements, isolating vocals, identifying and separating multiple…

Sound on SoundVideoMyburgh launch the M28 Said to be the ideal choice for engineers in search of a mic with a sound of its own rather than a remake of a classic design, the M28 centres around a German-made CK12 capsule, but is said to offer…

Sound on SoundVideoBlox Rack from Pine DSP Pine DSP’s latest offering brings together a set of six virtual processors, houses them in a 500-series-style layout and complements them with a detailed horizontal editing panel.

Sound on SoundVideoVEMIA’s 63rd auction VEMIA’s latest vintage gear auction is set to take place between 7–14 November 2026 , and will be followed by their Second Chance Sunday on 15 November.

Sound on SoundVideoCelemony add Arianna Powell to Tonalic library The latest expansion for Celemony’s Tonalic library centres around Arianna Powell, a session guitarist whose playing ranges from fresh-sounding rock guitars and Americana to nylon-string pop and…

Sound on SoundVideoWaldorf announce the Crema The Crema expands on the concept behind the Waldorf Streichfett, which captured the sound of the analogue ‘string machine’ synths from the 1970s, and introduces a range of pad sounds inspired by the…

Sound on SoundVideoAudioscenic: Binaural technology update We recently caught up with Audioscenic to see how their technology has developed over the last year or so, and get an idea of where it may be headed next.

Sound on SoundVideoRapid Flow launch drumGRID Built around a library of over 1000 classic drum machine samples, drumGRID supports patterns up to 128 steps long, and boasts Euclidean sequencing, per-step sound shaping and a fully featured sampler…

Sound on SoundVideoNeve unveil the Elements range & 8424E console Neve's first foray into digitally controlled analogue comes in the form of three eight-channel rackmount processors and a new and improved version of their 8424 console.

Sound on SoundVideoAES Show 2026: Nashville The new and re-energised AES Show brings together audio professionals from a wide range of fields, as well as welcoming musicians, songwriters, students and educators.

Sound on SoundVideoBangZilla release Wave Theory BangZilla's debut plug-in release comes in the form of Wave Theory, a MIDI plug-in that generates melodic lines based on the shape of an imported waveform.

Sound on SoundVideoHEDD Audio unveil the Type 40 System HEDD Audio's new Type 40 System has been designed for studio users who are in search of more power and low-frequency extension, but want to avoid the complexities that can come with installing…

Sound on SoundVideoMusik Hack introduce Master Plan 2 Master Plan 2 represents a complete overhaul of the company’s popular all-in-one mastering processor, and is said to refine every part of the original while sticking to the formula that helped make…

Sound on SoundVideoKlevgrand release Altitude Harmony Klevgrand’s latest release offers a simplified take on Altitude, the pitch-correction and harmony-generation plug-in that was released earlier in 2026.

Sound on SoundVideoFender Studio Pro 8.2 now available The latest version of Fender’s DAW software delivers an array of new mixing capabilities along with a number of enhancements designed to help users work more efficiently.

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo