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Get with the programmers

This month’s free exciter was produced by plugin developers Venomode. Here’s the company’s founder, Adam Rogers, to tell us more…

App watch

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

COMPUTER music 10 years back

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

Two free plugins? Why not indeed

You can always rely on SampleScience to announce

Ins & outs

SHAPE OF PHEW Ed Sheeran was relieved last

Get a great vocal (without a singer)

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15 questions with… John Newman

John Newman may already be known as the charttopping singer with hits like 2012’s UK number one Feel The Love (with Rudimental) and global top 10 Love Me Again, but this year he’s taken his own advice – “move on before it’s too late”. He’s now embarked on a new chapter, John Newman 2.0, which is more dance-orientated, but actually returns to his production roots where he discovered computer music via some breakfast cereals…

15 questions with… Emily Nash

While we often feature artists making waves in the music industry in our 15 Questions With… interviews, Emily Nash is almost the definition of ‘the next big thing’. She already has acclaimed remixes for Little Mix and Navos in the bag and features heavily on both Beatport and Amazon’s ‘ones to watch’ for 2022. And with her first batch of singles notching up plays on Radio 1, Capital and Kiss, it’s time for Emily to answer the questions that matter…

What does A.I. mean mean for your music?

As artificial intelligence seeps into every aspect of modern life – self driving cars, telephone answering systems, speech and facial recognition – so its impact in the world of music production continues apace. Here we reveal how it will impact on your music making. The good. The bad. The future!

HANDS-ON TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

> Step by step 1. Building responsive reverb with

#15 Tong organ

Fancy a bit of house or garage in your bass? Let’s build a contemporary classic, with our similarly classic ZebraCM soft-synth

#04 Creating an 808 bass

You can get 808 sounds everywhere, but there’s a lot of fun in creating your own, so let’s make one tailored for today’s music

SOUND + VISION

A-V artist Halina Rice tells Martin Delaney about the evolutionary process that took her immersive live show from dream to reality

The 21st Century

As we waved goodbye to the ’90s, the bedroom producer concept paved the way for song writers and solo artists alike. And the synth was just about to explode everywhere…

Universal Audio Spark from $20/month MAC

With a seismic change in plugin policy, one of the world’s most renowned audio companies hopes to spark your imagination… without hardware

BLEASS Phase Mutant £32.99 PC MAC ios

FM synthesis is known for its deep expressiveness. With their new effect plugin, BLEASS aim to bring that quality to your audio parts too

Arturia Efx Fragments £80 PC MAC

Whether you want to build a glitchy vocal, stutter up your rhythms or just bring aural chaos, you’ll find a capable ally in this new sound reshaper

AudioThing Noises €69 PC MAC

Ever felt inspired by background hums and whirrs? Award-winning soundsmith Hainbach has made a plugin that takes them further…

Sinevibes Skew £22 PC Mac

Cleverly dicing your input signal, Sinevibes Skew manipulates the fabric of time via some complex reverse engineering…

Leapwing Audio UltraVox £59 PC MAC

Delivering a consistently sparkling vocal sound every take is the goal of this new algorithmically-directed vocal plugin

Soundware round-up

Hyper UK Garage & 2 Step £30 [Lifts

VENOMODE MAXIMAL 3 CM

This month’s free plugin is an update to an amazing maximising limiter. Here’s how to get the max from it…

All-new future sounds

It’s an A.I. theme, so what better to maintain that theme than two all-new packs of futuristic and sc-fi samples? Get them at filesilo.co.uk or WeTransfer

Loopmasters 309 samples

01 Blind Audio Inertia -Liquid DNB 02 Hy2rogen Hazy

Sample Market samples

Sample Market have another batch of demos from