Future Music

Editor-In-Chief Si Truss, simon.truss@futurenet.com Reviews Editor, Music Technology

Push the envelope

Experimental music has a long and rich history.

Sketch brings nonlinear arrangement to Pro Tools

Plus, Avid brings back perpetual licences for its DAW

Waves’ AI Online Mastering aims to give your music a pro-level polish

>Waves has become the latest company to launch

Focal’s redesigned Trio6 ST6 adds a Dual Focus mode

>To say Focal’s studio monitors are respected would

Bitwig and PreSonus’s new open file format lets you save projects in one DAW and open them in another

>There might be industry-wide plugin formats – VST,

Native Instruments’ new Kontrol S-Series keyboards arrive with polyphonic aftertouch

>Native Instruments has introduced new MK3 Kontrol S

Viken Arman

TALKING SHOP

Black Dog Productions, Bytes

Warp Records, 1993

Oneohtrix Point Never, Again

ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Minor Science, Absent Friends Vol. III

Balmat

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This issue, let’s explore sounds and ideas that break with convention, from classic examples of gear misuse or manipulation to wild sound design and creative sequencing

SAMUEL KERRIDGE

Techno producer Samuel Kerridge on the cutting-edge technology and nonlinear approach behind his forwardthinking new ‘hybrid’ DJ sets

6 ‘wrong’ production techniques that turned out ‘right’

AND HOW TO RECREATE THEM IN YOUR DAW

Philip Glass

Avant-garde, classical, neither? We celebrate an artist who belongs to all worlds and none

UNDERSTANDING: Mics

What’s the difference between different microphone designs, and how do they work?

Taking an experimental approach to arrangement

ABLETON LIVE’S Follow Actions allow users to create

AMOTIK

Berlin-based producer Anil Chawla on how he wrings bass and percussion from his TR-09 and his less-is-more approach to arrangement

HAUSCHKA

Oscar-winning composer and producer Volker Bertelmann on prepared piano, the need for optimism and finding room to experiment

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

Instrumental rock quartet’s Chris Hrasky tells Danny Turner why Explosions in the Sky’s eighth album, End, isn’t a goodbye

FOREST SWORDS

Matthew Barnes’ third Forest Swords album delves further into his stark, sumptuous and singularly unique sound world. Danny Turner finds out more

Realistic instrument programming

Learn how to capture and program the nuances and subtleties behind real instruments – all with the right sort of fakery in your DAW

Roland Gaia 2 £789

Roland’s ‘hands-on’ virtual analogue returns with some fresh tricks up its sleeve. But, Si Truss asks, does it still have one foot stuck in the past?

Akai Pro APC64 £339

Not so much a tweak as a full upgrade, the Akai APC64 acquires new abilities – and a new audience?

GS Music e7 $1,600 plus import tax

This first poly from Argentina already sounds like a classic but has one or two tricks up its sleeve, says Andy Jones

Cableguys FilterShaper XL €49

The modulation-obsessed developer turns its attention back to its classic filter plugin. Si Truss gets moving…

the t.bone RM 700 £95

Ribbon mics make a great addition to your mic cupboard. Jon Musgrave plugs up this affordable option

OXI Instruments Coral £422

A polyphonic, multi-timbral synth in only 14HP! Simon Arblaster sees how deep this spin on a modern classic goes

SOUNDS & SAMPLES

Sampleson – SkyWaves $59 >Over the last

GEAR GUIDE

ABLETON LIVE CONTROLLERS Ableton Push From $999