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The Computer Music 2021 Awards!

This awards ceremony is brought to you in conjunction with Black Friday…

App watch

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

Get with the educators

A change of format as we catch up with a legend in music tech circles and presenter of your Live Lite videos this issue, Mr Ski Oakenfull …

10 years back

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

Create a great guitar sound: part 3 - the effects

Vibrant, quirkily-named effects pedals of varying shapes and sizes are the guitarist’s most treasured playthings. But, the right software selections can not only reproduce such pedal-based effects with aplomb, but exceed what a humble foot pedal is capable of

Guitar effects plugins

Effects in the box, that’ll knock off your socks

15 questions with…CINTHIE

DJ and producer Cinthie is pretty much living the clichéd life we believe all Berliners do – DJing across the world, producing music in a bespoke studio, and has even worked for Ableton. Not that we’re jealous or anything…

BLUCK & BLINKIE

Rising star of dance, producer James Bluck, has teamed up with hitmaker Blinkie to make one of the tracks of 2021, On Your Mind (featuring vocals by Taet). And between them, they not only have a ton of software, but advice too…

ABLETON LIVE 11 LITE

It’s a momentous month for Computer Music as, for the first time ever, we have a free version of Ableton Live. So over the next few pages, we’re bringing you not one, but two tutorials on how to create a track, using this most amazing musical application. So let’s go Live 11 Lite!

ABLETON LIVE 11 LITE

TUTORIAL PART 2

TECH ON TOUR WITH TS7

Producer-DJ TS7 needed some specific solutions to take his computer-based creations into the live arena. writer and music technology trainer Martin Delaney had the honour of taking a supporting role, and reports back from the road…

TS7 on his music

TS7 takes us through some of his most notable releases

Vocals for mood or atmos

Vocals are an instrument like any other. Want to distort or flange it up to create mood? Go ahead! Ashley Thorpe shows you how…

Pumping synths

This month’s versatile synth patch resides in enigmatic music or hardcore extremes, in equal measure. Dave Gale gets pumping

MiniFuse 1 & 2 £89/£129

If you’re in need of a sturdy and compact audio interface, Arturia might have a firecracker or two for you. Stand back and light the fuses

Logic Pro 10.7 £174.99

Apple’s point updates have become almost as dramatic as many developer’s full updates, but is 10.7 worth possible macOS update hassle?

Convolver €3 9

Kilohearts’ latest lean, mean plugin may seem like just another convolved reverb processor, but reverbs are just the start…

Taip $69

Want a fresh approach to analogue tape emulation? Baby Audio’s Taip could be the highly creative tool that you’re looking for

NoiseShaper $60

ShaperBox 2’s latest addition breaks free of the multi-effect format, offering creatively shaped sampled noise. So how’s it shape up?

Elements - Modern Scoring Synth £80

Breathing new life into contemporary scoring, Zero-G’s new suite earns a rightful place on the periodic table of music production

cm mini reviews

A rapid-fire round-up of studio essentials (and not so essentials)

Track builders + kits!

All-new track builder samples for easy song creation in Live 11 Lite and classic toolkits. It’s double the usual content, all downloadable from filesilo.co.uk

Loopmasters cm 304 samples

01 Famous Audio Terra: Synthetic Lo-Fi 02 Abstract

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Download this month’s videos: filesilo.co.uk/computermusic

BASS

It’s the bedrock, base, backbone and any other word we can think of begining with ‘b’. So you’ve got to get your bass right, right? Here’s how…