welcome

In what is fast becoming my magazine equivalent

Software bundles of fun

An update to two major software bundles you might just not know about…

App watch

We report on the latest developments in phone and tablet music making

Get with the programmers

MeldaProduction have more than 130 great plugins and a ‘mixing revolution’ planned. The teasers…

10 years back

Our monthly shake-of-thehead at our younger selves’ news choices…

UVI’s new Quadra synth

Quadra includes an arp and performance player to

BACK ISSUES

IS HARDWARE GOING TO KILL SOFTWARE? *

New hardware DAWs giving  software a run for its money!

JIMMY EDGAR

Playing games with music, using three EQs, no compression,  nor reverb. Welcome to the glorious mind of Jimmy Edgar 

The guide to MODULAR SYNTHESIS

Modular, aka Eurorack, synthesis has  taken the production world by storm.  Here’s your complete guide on how  to get going, as we go from zero to  modular hero…

TOM HOLKENBORG

Having just scaled his personal ‘Mount Everest’  with a four-and-a-half-hour score for Justice  League: The Snyder Cut, Tom Holkenborg  reflects on isolation working methods, casting  out his old kit and his enduring passion for  boutique Eurorack synths

SNARL

Snarl might not be old enough to set foot in a club yet,  but he’s already producing tracks so good that he has  been described as ‘dance music’s next great prodigy’. Not  that Prodigy, although he does come from Essex…

KIDEKO

Cm Producer Masterclass

The Kideko studio up close

Ryan’s studio features the best in software  and a few choice pieces of hardware.  Let’s take a closer look at his setup…

#12 Chromatic mediants

Sprinkle a little magic, wonder and even soul into your chord progressions with this neat music theory device…

#01 Creative Zebra oscillation

Our new synth columnist Dave Gale goes back to basics with Zebra CM and its oscillators –a great place to start a new synthesis journey

#09 Dub techno chords

Learn how to create moody dub techno chords within Xfer Serum

GForce Software OB-E

We love a good vintage synth emulation, but does this latest offering from GForce honour an Oberheim synth classic? OB one way to find out

Spitfire Audio Contemporary Drama Toolkit

Spitfire invite you to enjoy a world of effortless, feel-based scoring. But are these simple routes to sonic success just smoke and mirrors?

Neuratron PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate 2020

To scan and edit existing musical scores, the best option is a dedicated application (and one with a very long name)

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Reverb plugins

Caelum Audio Tape Pro £39.99

Tape saturation can be an excellent flavour-enhancing tool. Let’s see if this new affordable plugin from Caelum Audio tingles the taste buds

Tom Wolfe Premier Collection

This preset collection for softsynth classics could catapult your next soundtrack into the top division, but is it in the premier league?

Soundware round-up

Audiotent Artist Kicks £57 The kick is the

Soundware round-up

Undrgrndsounds Soulful House Vocals £19.95 The three US-sounding

KILOHEARTS CARVE EQ

From the makers of our popular parametric EQ giveaway last year, get to know this issue’s free plugin, this time a graphic EQ

New keys samples

We have two all-new packs of highly-processed keyboard samples for you this issue. You can get both packs on the DVD or download direct at filesilo.co.uk

Spiritual Sounds

It’s time to raid the mighty Vault, and we have found a much-needed collection of samples to calm us all down a bit. One, two, three: breathe…

Loopmasters cm295 samples

01 Loopmasters Synth Explorer Pulse 02 Artisan Tension

Sample Market samples

Sample Market return to our special industry sample demo

Mode Audio cm295 samples

Mode Audio

PRODUCER MASTERCLASS

How Kideko and Armand van Helden produced the track The Fire together

cm/experts

Our resident music production gurus walk you through their  specialist field every month