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IK Multimedia’s ARC Studio room correction promises a monitor upgrade like no other…

Hoover this one up

TAL Software recently released TAL-Pha, a new software

Abit of a jumble

With Jumble, SoundGhost’s brand new VST/AU sampler plugin,

Wavetick: forging an equitable music market

Promising an artist-focused service that gives musicians, beatmakers and producers a free marketplace to trade their sonic wares, Wavetick aims to disrupt the current sample website paradigm in the creator’s favour. Let’s find out more…

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CREATIVE REVERB

Reverb has been relied on for its evocative sonic character ever since the first homo sapien warbled expletives into a dark cave. The transformative power of space is still a vital mix ingredient

Reverb types

Before you get creative, it’s important to understand how different types of reverb work

Deeper reverb manipulation

Now you know the basics, let’s delve into the more complex attributes of reverb control for our tracks

Reverb effects

While we can manipulate those regular sounding ’verbs with ease, it’s time to explore how to make all manner of reverb-based effects…

14 creative reverb pro tips

Take our advice, and become a reverb master in no time

COMPUTER MUSIC

ISSUE 333 MAY 2024

MARIA WHORN

An avid explorer of sound’s spectral properties, Maria W Horn’s work realises the potential of long-forgotten spaces. Via instrumental textures, room responses, the human voice and a specialised computer language, she synthesises entirely new sonics. We heard more about her processes and the at-times chilling story behind her affecting new album, Panoptikon

SEDIBUS

Detaching from The Orb mothership, Sedibus is the latest project of core figurehead Alex Paterson, accompanied by former Orb-member and key creative collaborator Andy Falconer. With a studio shorthand and a shared passion for flourishing ambient textures, the pair’s second record SETI gazes skyward for its inspiration. We spoke to Andy to learn more…

How to make a rave-style techno track

Prepare to get fists in the air as we learn the tools, tricks and tempos for nailing the basics of rave-ready techno

Sidechain compression

Sidechain compression is an excellent mixing tool and in this tutorial we pick apart this essential process

ALTERNATIVES

Your options for pumping sidechain effects don’t end

RADICAL RHYTHMS

From pepping up basic grooves to creating full-on 4/4-flouting madness, learn a multitude of timing tricks with our classic guide

Tempo and time signature

Central to the concept of musical time are

Recommended odd time listening

THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET TAKE FIVE When you

> Step by step 1. Odd time signatures in action

1 Although we don’t really consider 3/4 to

Anomalies and strangeness

You might well be wondering at this point

Manipulating time signature and tempo

There are many reasons why you might want

Syncopation

Fundamental to just about all modern music (and

Beat displacement and mirroring

So far, we’ve aimed our rhythmic telescope at

Rhythmic tips and tricks

01 There are several tried and tested ways

CM/ REVIEWS

The latest computer music gear tested and rated!

Ableton Live 12

£69/£259/£539

BLEASS Arpeggiator $39

Classic synth-based arpeggiators’ up-down patterns can be tedious, says Stuart Adams. Can Arpeggiator bring the variability he craves?

Cherry Audio Pro Soloist

$69

Synthogy Ivory 3 German D

$279

Audiotent Vapor

£37

Zenhiser Peaktime

£48

Bingoshakerz Wild West Stories

$24.95

Minimal Audio Elevate

$29

ModeAudio Bloom

£20

Sound Ghost Utopia

£20

MODALICS BITFUZZER

Distortion can be a great effect for enlivening and mashing up sounds, and this month we’ve got you a plugin that can do both

Stutter, glitch and Buchla!

This month we’re bringing you a selection of weird and wonky stutter and glitch sounds, as well as some slick West Coast Buchla synths

Classic samples

Extreme packs

Loopmasters 333 samples

This month’s demo sample selection highlighting Loopmasters’ latest releases

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cm/experts

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

Make a filter kick bass with BazilleCM

Following our deep-dive into the oscillator section of BazilleCM, we follow the signal flow to create a filter-thumping bass sound