Techno logic

When you write regularly about music technology, as

Loopcloud 6 can use AI to recommend sounds for your latest track

Loopmasters’ sample store also adds new search  tools, extra effects and much more

Focusrite buys Sequential (and Dave Smith’s analogue synths)

> In a significant music tech industry development,

Ableton Loop Create event will connect musicians from around the world

> Following its enforced postponement last year, Ableton’s

Antelope Audio’s Axino Synergy Core puts an audio interface inside a USB microphone

> There are plenty of USB condenser microphones

UVI’s Super-7 combines Juno-106 and 707 sounds to recreate an ’80s groove

> Released in 1986, Roland’s MKS-7 was a

M-Audio update the Oxygen MIDI keyboard range

> M-Audio continue to revise and reboot their

Akai go old-school with the ’80s-style MPC One

> If you’re a longtime user of Akai’s

Free firmware update means Arturia’s KeyStep Pro now does even more

> We’re as keen as anyone to talk

Modal Electronics say the Skulpt SE is the most affordable MPE hardware synth out there

> Modal Electronics have taken their original Skulpt

Universal Audio’s LUNA update turns the DAW into an API analogue console

> UA’s LUNA recording platform has always had

Ishmael Ensemble Visions of Light

Severn Songs

Perila How Much Time it is Between You and Me?

Smalltown Supersound

40 YEARS OF TECHNO PRODUCTION

Since its birth in the early 1980s, techno has taken over the world and remains one of dance music’s most enduring genres. This issue, we delve back through nearly 30 years’ worth of interviews to discover how the changing face of technology has shaped the sound of techno

Telex

Belgian trio Telex was one of the first to bring electronic pop to the European hit parade. Danny Turner chats to Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers about the band’s past and present

Sample synthesis

Rob Redman cuts and shuts, granularises and mangles samples to discover new sonic possibilities

Wave shapes

Fundamental waveshapes have plenty of value but we

Samples for texture

1Using a sample in your music doesn’t have

THREE OF THE BEST

Native Instruments Pigments £159 1 Pigments is one

Making a usable instrument

Playing a custom kit can be just as

Andrew Hung

Left dissatisfied by his debut solo debut album Realisationship, Andrew Hung felt the need to brush up on his craft and break through some mental barriers. Danny Turner discusses the follow-up, Devastations

Oramics

From founding the Radiophonic Workshop at the BBC to her unique Oramics machine, Daphne Oram was a pioneer

Keeping the Oram legacy alive

Oramics (2007) > This definitive compilation of Oram’s

Hannah Peel

Peel’s new album, Fir Wave, sees her resampling, re-imagining and re-dreaming the music of celebrated electronic pioneer Delia Derbyshire and the Radiophonic Workshop. Hamish Mackintosh found out more

“Electrocution while poking a compressor isn’t the death I hope awaits”

Simian Mobile Disco’s Jas Shaw has spent much

DO NOT MAKE A TEMPLATE

“I see a lot of this ‘have everything

Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things

Rephlex, 1996

Track by track with Squarepusher

Squarepusher Theme “The guitar chords were sampled from

The Beacon

Knee Deep In Sound, 2021 VIDEO ON FILESILO

Making The Beacon’s deep piano lines in Live

Simon uses the classic Korg M1 plugin with judicious application of effects to create a majestic piano

IK Multimedia UNO Synth Pro from £399

Rob Redman checks out this duo of synths from the budgetfriendly Italian brand

THE ALTERNATIVES

Korg minilogue £430 Korg’s minilogue is a polyphonic

Roland Verselab MV-1  £599

The MV-1 prioritises vocals – as per the name – but it still covers you for samples and instruments says Martin Delany

THE ALTERNATIVES

Boss VE-500 £359 Still hardware, but even more

VPME Euclidean Circles v2 £235 and Six Switches £42

If you are interested in creating sequences that

SPRING REVERBS

We’ve tested five plugin emulations of this characterful reverb tech. Which of them would you be proud to coil your own?

Black Lion Audio Revolution 2x2 £399

Quality audio is at the heart of this firm’s ethos. Jon Musgrave tests their first fully fledged audio interface

Strymon NightSky £439

Bruce Aisher explores the infinite world of modulated reverb with Strymon’s new time-warped reverberator

Pulsar 1178

>The Urei 1176 is one of the most

Roland Patch Collections – various synths $19.99 each

(or included with active Roland Cloud subscription)

Generate new musical ideas in Ableton Live

PROBLEM: How can I make things more creative when I’m playing layered instruments?

Essential Tools For Music Making

STANDALONE MUSIC MAKERS Roland Verselab MV-1 £599 Full