Sound On Sound is still free for everyone.
Best mag in da biz. https://www.soundonsound.com
Some great reviews in there, as always, including on the Arturia V Collection 9 and the Zoom F3 interface.
I really liked Liquid Notes, so when they got taken over by WAP, I enlisted for the successor. As a whole, I use this stuff as a (cheaper) alternative to PlugInBoutique’s Scaler for chord progressions.
I think the Augmented Grand Piano is an interesting alternative for Noire, as it also combines a regular with a felt version, albeit a Steinway D (while Noire’s is a Yamaha grand if I’m not mistaken).