welcome

“It wasn’t an easy task, nor did I

Volt to Spark: UA’s new electric avenue?

Spark service doesn’t need UA hardware and includes new UA instruments!

Get with the programmers

WA Production supplied our free sample pack this issue and also make some superb plugins. Here’s CEO, Roman Trachta, to tell us more…

COMPUTER music 10 years back

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

Loopcloud adds your Collections

Loopcloud is the easy way to make music

Ins & outs

RICK WRITIN’ He’s one of the most successful

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It’s the end of music production…

Sigala

His incredibly catchy blend of dance pop has lit up charts and dance floors globally and with 10 million worldwide sales, 3.5 billion audio streams, over 1 billion video views and eight UK top 10 singles, you could say that Sigala – aka UK artist and producer Bruce Fielder – must be doing something right. And he also knows how to tackle our 15 questions, dishing out some of the best tech advice ever…

Soft as Snow

Soft as Snow take on our 15 Questions challenge, in what is fast becoming the ‘Berlin-based artist’ section of Computer Music. The Norwegian duo have been lured to the city of forward-thinking music thanks to their own uncompromising sound, which mixes digital sheen with organic imperfections and distinctive vocals from Oda Egjar Starheim. They don’t use a lot of software, mind…

CM PLUGIN SUITE V2.0

We’ve updated the CM Plugin Suite with new titles and have stripped some of the older and less functional titles out. Here’s our guide to some of the best new additions of what is still the greatest free resource in the world for music producers (and one which still comes free with this very magazine!)

A NEW EERA

Former Ninja Tune artist EERA, aka Anna Lena Bruland, has just supported Public Service Broadcasting on a successful and extensive tour, produced a session for BBC 6 Music and also released her second album, Speak. Here she explains how her love for Queens Of The Stone Age and the odd Russian synth all combined to help her create her unique sound

Top 4 plugins used on the record

Photo © Tobias Humble Valhalla DSP Valhalla Delay

The 90s

As the 80s drifted from mostly analogue to largely digital, would the 90s be the decade when the synth scene settled? Not really…

Top 10 of the 90s

The most important releases that powered this most digital of synth decades

Air -Sexy Boy

For our first 90s sonic recreation, we create the formant filter effect from the opening of Air’s Sexy Boy with a little help from Zebra CM

William Orbit -Barber ’s Adagio for Strings

The mid-90s was all about the supersaw; an iconic sound, used on one of the most iconic dance tracks of the era, by William Orbit

6 of the best plugins to nail the 90s sound

Superwave P8 PC £Free The Superwave P8 draws

#03 Sidechain bass and drums

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use sidechain compression more effectively with your bass and kick drum

#14 Next level pad sounds

An essential part of contemporary production, this month we

The Pro Producer’s Guide To LIMITING

After guiding you through the basics of compression a few issues back, it’s time to look at its mastering brother in arms, the limiter, and all of its subtleties

GForce Software M-Tron MkII

If vintage kudos and retro styling appeal to you, the latest update from GForce Software may provide some contemporary inspiration too

Orchestral Tools Habitat

Linking synths, acoustic orchestral instruments and nature in exciting new ways, this is a great new resource for pads and creative textures

Cubase 12

It’s one of the major DAWs, with a wealth of awesome features. Let’s see how the latest version 12 of this iconic application stacks up

Playbeat 3

A virtual drummer like no other, Playbeat 3 not only suggests rhythmic strategies, but opens an online ecosystem of creative sample sharing

cm mini reviews

A rapid-fire round-up of hardware, samples, and much more

Soundware round-up

Zenhiser Didge – Didgeridoo £33 There aren’t nearly

CM SUITE V2.0

The Plugin Suite is world famous for delivering the instruments, effects and utilities you need to make music, and you get it free with every issue! Here’s your guide to v2.0

4 New Synth Packs!

After last issue’s vintage synths of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, we have four allnew 21st century synth packs! Get them from filesilo.co.uk or wetransfer

DOWNTEMPO DREAMS

We’re going back to issue 260 (October 2018)

Acoustic Samples V Horns

Ever wanted to add some of that horn-like spice to your tracks? A virtual horn section may transfer your dream into reality