Скачать или смотреть Gear of the Year 2025 – Part 2: The best plugins and music tech software

As 2025 comes to an end, we're looking back on another exciting year of new music technology gear releases. In this second instalment of our Gear of the Year round-up, MusicRadar Managing Editor Si Truss and Reviews Editor Simon Arblaster pick their personal top 3 software releases of 2025, as well as nominating a few wild cards and honourable mentions.

These are our personal highlights of 2025, but there's so much other great gear we've not had time to mention. Tell us what you've been loving and using in the comments below.

*Please excuse our squeaky voices – the end of year illness is catching up on us
**at 9.40, we meant to say 'frozen reverbs and pitched delays'


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01:10 – Acon Digital Remix:Drums
02:53 – Remix:Drums demo
03:56 – Xfer Serum 2.0
05:32 – Serum 2 demo
06:20 – Arturia Mix Drums
07:50 – Mix Drums demo
08:46 – Valhalla FutureVerb
10:16 – FutureVerb demo
10:53 – Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3
12:28 – Omnisphere 3 demo
13:24 – Native Instruments Absynth 6
15:04 – Absynth 6 demo
16:20 – Forever89 Visco 2.0
17:53 – Visco 2.0 demo
18:20 – Cherry Audio
19:56 – Cherry Audio demos
20: 59 – What else?