Sample licensing has always been a thorny, potentially costly business, so back in September 2012 we showed you how to cut your potential royalty costs by ‘replaying’ a sound rather than using the original. A handy skill to have during a cost-of-living crisis, we think you’ll agree…
There was also a guide to recreating the off-beat organ stab in Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – already a classic, and now even more so – while In the reviews section, we had our eye not only on Sugar Bytes’ Cyclop (see what we did there?) but also Reason 6.5 and its “conceptually controversial” new Rack Extensions format. Still, we liked it.