Anyone who says that music’s been devalued over the past 10 years could do worse than take a look at our cover feature from August 2010 ( 154), when we showed you how to make a track for free. Sadly, we can’t play it to you here, but we can assure you that it sounded like a million dollars (probably).
Our Burning Question for the month asked if live computer music could be made more engaging, a trifling concern now we’re in a time when most people would settle for any kind of live music that isn’t streamed from someone’s house. We also pre-empted the start of the hardware synth boom by discussing the pros and cons of adding some ‘out of the box’ gear to your studio setup, and there was a tutorial on using Propellerhead Software’s new Reason 5 and Record 1.5 apps, which would later become one.
Not sure if it was clear from the cover, but in cm154, we gave readers tips on making music for FREE!