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It’s official: 80s best for synths

You overwhelmingly voted 80s synth sounds as the best. News to us!

App watch

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

Get with the programmers

With Orbitron just released, we put developers JMG Sound under the spotlight (and it turns out we helped!)

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10 years back

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

Use a Satellite to collaborate

Satellite Plugins 2.0 might well be the platform

Ins & outs

BREAK IN THE SOUNDCLOUD SoundCloud have announced that

BLAY VISION

Do you love a plugin so much you’d get a tattoo of it? Meet  Blay, a grime producer with Vision (and a hedgehog hero) 

MOGWAI

Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns from  Mogwai talk to John Thackray about the  making of the band’s 10th (and chart-topping) album As The Love Continues,  revealing what it’s like making an album  during lockdown and having legendary  producer Dave Fridmann monitoring  your every move via Zoom…

ROOSEVELT

After lighting up dancefloors and charts with his slick  electronic and vocal productions, Marius Lauber, aka  Roosevelt, has returned with his third album, Polydans.  Time to talk tech and how to let your plugins fight…

THE 40 GREATEST SYNTH SOUNDS OF ALL TIME

You voted for your favourite synth  sounds of all time, and over the following  25 pages we not only reveal the results,  but tell you how you can recreate every  single one of them, right now, for free!

The guide to Easy strings

Don’t put away the violins! We  reach the final movement of our  celebration of all things string with  a look at its silverscreen usage

General programming tips for authentic strings

01 ON THE DOWNLOW If you find your

The 2-5-1 building block

If chord progressions were prescribed in beard-scratching self-help books, this one would be the ‘closure’ chord. Dave Clews tells us more…

masterclass with Scot Solida

Free up some floor space and ditch the pedals, says Scot Solida

Rhythmic pads from scratch

Introducing rhythmical movement to your pads retains the energy flowing within your track. Here’s how to get those pads moving…

Ableton Live 11

Following on from the public beta, Ableton Live 11 is here in all its full release glory. Is this an update to get excited about?

Steinberg Nuendo 11

The latest iteration of Steinberg’s premium DAW promises a more potent toolset than ever before, but can it tempt the Pros away from Tools?

Lindell Audio\ 50 Series

Classic hardware emulation combined with Brainworx’s component modelling? Should make the perfect couple! Let’s see how it fares…

EVO Start Recording £199

Web audient.com Format PC/Mac/iOS We do love a

The Ultimate Guide to Achieving a Pro Sound £14.99

Web crowood.com Billy Decker’s mixing has helped shift

WIDI Master

£53 Web cme-pro.com , handinhand.uk.net Format Mac/PC/iOS Wireless

Dark Acid Techno £19.99 or 500 credits

Public health notice: this whopper of a 3GB

Hard Trap £19.99 or 300 credits

Quality loop library and songstarter kits, pumped full

Oldskool Jungle £25

Rewind back to the days of Rage, as

Mainroom Tech House $18.95

Across ten construction kits, the people behind this

Ventus Winds Native American Flutes £88.99

Super cool virtual instrument for Kontakt. The sounds

Acid Futures £19.95

They call it acid. The bleepy bloop Trax

Trippy Body Techno £29.95

Full-bodied techno selection, taking inspiration from Nina Kraviz’

Astral Phase £18

Intergalactic synthwave fun from the Mode Audio space

Hanz – Lo-Fi Hip-Hop £17.95

Beautiful pitched chord and pad sounds, track-owning bass

Joyce Muniz – House Analog Inventions £17.95

The silky Brazilian dance don takes us deeper

License Free Movie Clips Expansion £21.95

Sweet pot of ancient movie clip noises and

Psydub £34

Warped and distorted noises swirl and swell, as

Cinematic Horror Sounds & FX $8.00

Ghoulish, goose-pimple-summoning sound effects pack, designed to go

Ancient Analogue

Our Ultimate Synths Collection continues with 900 dusty WAVs to put the vibes up your tracks

Sparse Soundscapes

Our Ultimate Synths get moody now with a pack covering everything from analogue chaos to atmospheric collage

Modular Madness

As part of our spectacular Ultimate Synths sample collection we’ve donned our lab coats to bring you 900 of the craziest modular synth samples around

Modular Mayhem

The Ultimate Synth action continues at pace with 909 more plugged-in, analogue-heavy samples care of Groove Criminals

Analogue Circuits

Our Ultimate Synths Collection of samples goes down to circuit level with these amazing analogue sounds

New Wave Synth

Our next pack of synthwave sounds was put

Bass Boutique

Finally in our Ultimate Synths Collection, it’s time to get your subs shaking with these 900 bass samples