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… and iZotope, Avid and Presonus staff didn’t get summer holidays after all

Synchro Arts unveil RePitch for natural tuning

Cher look away now. You won’t ‘believe’ what

IK enter the big league with new speaker range

IK Multimedia took us completely by surprise with

WA Production let their new Halo slip

WA Production are another company – see Baby

Baby Audio make another trip to New York

It’s hard to believe that Baby Audio are

App watch

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

Melda in Dream(Machines) land

DreamMachines is a new instrument from Melda that

Apogee go Boom

Apogee are well known for their high quality

United are trapping your tunes (or tuning your trap)

United Plugins have announced TrapTune, a plugin for

WA’s Instachord 2

WA Production have announced the follow up to

Nektar go wireless

MIDI controller experts Nektar have branched out –

It’s a knob. For bass

Swedish developers Bogren Digital have announced a follow-up

10 years back

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

SampleScience reclaim their old slot. Right here

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MONEY-SAVING STUDIO

The first thing to consider when powering up your sound, is your studio. Does it fit your music, is it a creative space… If your studio needs changing or upgrading, we have some great value solutions

Power up your electronic music for less than £500!

Building your studio to cater for the dancefloor – or headphone-based connoiseur – is easy

Get a set-up for making soundtracks and earn from your music

Fancy yourself as the next Hans Zimmer? If you’re set on a career as a soundtrack creator then you’ve come to the right place…

Get powerful pop sounds without shelling out

You think you’ve got what it takes to climb the charts? It’s surprising how little you need to build a playlistfriendly banger…

Get a big rock sound for less than 500 pounds!

You don’t need to have walls of amplifiers and a spacious LA studio to conjure hair-raising rock’n’roll. In fact, it’s one of the easiest genres to go large on, for less

Create an amazing hiphop setup for under £500. Yes, really!

You don’t need a million dollar studio to tangle with the big boys. Here’s our penny-saving guide to becoming a grandmaster

Be the best singer/ songwriter without breaking the bank

Powering up your singer/ songwriter studio will require heavier investment in some areas, but you’ll be able to dispense with more advanced kit that other approaches demand

Become a better mixer with the best tools (but for less cash)

As well as producing music of different flavours, training your focus on the mixing process in general will mean you’ll want to allocate your budget to some more specialised tools…

How to get better song masters without shelling out

The final stage of preparing your music can be costly, unless you take the reins yourself. Here’s our guide to building up that solid mastering hub

Big guitar tones for zero outlay

Need oomph for your guitar tone on a budget? The CM Plugin Suite has just the thing

Free sound design with Synapse Audio Dune CM

Available from the Plugin Suite right now, Dune CM can be used as a solid – and free – sound design synth

Budget mixing in Garageband

Essentially a lite version of Logic, Garageband has all you need to record and mix a superb demo…

Bigger vocals for free with zplane Vielklang 2 CM

Bolster your vocal performances with zplane Vielklang 2 CM from the new CM Plugin Suite…

Budget beat-building with XILS-lab StiX CM

Included in the new CM Plugin Suite and will have your beats building in no time for no cash…

ZebraCM Laser Harp

This month, we recreate one of the most iconic synthesiser sounds from the last 50 years, the Laser Harp

Get more from Drummer

Ashley Thorpe reveals why you should be exploring Logic’s intuitive Drummer tool. Even non Logic users will be tempted…

DC GORE

DC Gore is reinventing the sounds – and synths – of the 80s in a completely new and unique way. We dig deep into his mind (and hard drive) to find out why that decade has stuck with him and how he gives it a very 2022 twist

Sound Design practices

When it comes to choosing your sounds, and your synth patches, how much sound design do you get into?

Cherry Audio

Elka-X $59

Apple MacBook Air M2 from £1249

Apple’s latest laptop is the company’s lightest and sleekest. It’s also quiet, and could be the music production laptop we’ve all been waiting for

UVI Mission 6 €79 PC MAC

Inspired by a lesser known, but respected analogue classic, UVI’s latest Mission visits the limits of Andromeda

EastWest Forbidden Planet £245 PC MAC

An expansive odyssey of evolving sci-fi synth sounds, these evermorphing sonics will delight all Earth-based shapers of new frontiers…

IK Multimedia PC MAC MODO Drum 1.5 £250 £250

With some of the most expansive tone-shaping control we’ve ever handled, IK have augmented an already unparalleled drum workstation

Minimal Audio Morph EQ

Bored with your regular EQs? This new Minimal Audio EQ with its morphing design could be just what you need to spice things up

Best audio interfaces under £200

It’s our budget studio special so it’s time to round up the best audio interfaces that won’t break the bank for recording into your Mac, PC and even your phone…

AUDIFIED IRONVERB CM

This month we have a great new addition to the Computer Music Plugin Suite from long-running supporters, Audified

Rough bass samples!

Let’s roughen up your low end with two new packs of dirty bass samples and a classic pack of extreme bass sounds. Your bottom end will thank you, trust us

Classic samples

1,758 extreme bass sounds

Loopmasters 314 samples

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

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