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.

Allen & Health'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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.