The annual SOS Awards are now underway, and as always, we’re asking readers to help us choose the best pro-audio releases from the last 12 months.

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. 

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. 

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 speakers in dialogue recordings, and more!

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 a distinctive sound to your usual C12-inspired designs. 

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. 

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.

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 jazz-tinged parts.

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 digital synths of the 1980s and 1990s.