


Thankfully, the 12GB LPDDR5 RAM makes the Pixel 6 Pro a lot better about keeping apps cached in memory, so you rarely have to wait for apps to relaunch themselves completely. You can also choose between a healthy 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage when you buy a Pixel 6 Pro. There’s no 1TB option like you can get on the iPhone 13 Pro, but seeing as Google – or Android phones in general – doesn’t have a ProRes or ProRAW-equivalent video format, you should never need that much storage. Just make sure to buy a phone with all the storage you need as it’s not expandable. The real power of Google Tensor comes into play with its machine learning abilities. We were particularly impressed with the included time stretching features which allow very fine adjustment of time, tempo and pitch and the way that all the effects can be previewed from inside their own settings panels before committing to processing.Talking to your phone to look up things on Google feels even faster than ever.

You get a selection of high quality effects for processing your recordings, including compression, delay, EQ, reverb and various filters inveterate knob-twiddlers can fiddle with the effects manually, while there are plenty of well-described presets for those less aurally inclined users. Sound Forge includes a range of tools for precision editing of audio files including a pencil mode which lets you draw directly within the waveform and an envelope mode which is great for adjusting the way effect parameters are applied over a specific passage of audio. The interface is easy to customise and works well, even on a 13” MacBook screen. Find an individual audio file in the browser and it can previewed instantly or right clicked and added to a handy list of favourites.

The interface is sparse but well-organised into a collection of clever panels which contain the various editing views, the plug-in effects chain, browsers, file properties, meters and so on that can be arranged and switched on or off with a couple of mouse clicks.
