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    Ppg Wave 2
    While a student at music college, a kindly and respected professor offered to introduce me to a composer who was something of a hero of mine. Paddy Kingsland had been one of the second wave of composers at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. A timely trip
    Music Tech Magazine12 min read
    Give Peace A Chance
    The name of Ólafur Arnalds new album is Some Kind of Peace. We wish. Clearly fate took an ironic opportunity to intervene shortly before we had a chance to talk to him about both the new album and his approach to creativity more broadly: an earthquak
    Music Tech Magazine3 min readTechnology & Engineering
    SIX OF THE BEST All-purpose headphones PART ONE
    Contact europe.beyerdynamic.com They may be one of the older entries on this list but Beyerdynamic’s DT 1990 Pros are far from dated. With their open-back design, these headphones deliver an uncoloured and spacious sound ideal for music-making, mixin
    Music Tech Magazine1 min read
    KLEVGRAND Skaka
    Price £40 or £15 iPad Contact klevgrand.se Programming the nuances of a live shaker or percussion sound can be notoriously difficult. New plug-in Shaka offers flexible and natural-sounding percussion patterns with 12 sequence slots that can load any
    Music Tech Magazine1 min read
    LOOPMASTERS Jungle Drummer: London Wake Up Drums
    Price £25 Contact Loopmasters.com Loopmasters has again teamed up with Jungle Drummer for a pack of live new-school jazz and breakbeat drum loops. The content is comprised of the drum parts for Extinction Point’s recently released London Wake Up EP,
    Music Tech Magazine1 min readTechnology & Engineering
    PRODUCERTECH Rebuilding Unstable Condition with John Tejada
    Price £25 or £10 per month Contact producertech.com This new Producertech course sees producer John Tejada recreating his 2011 minimal house track Unstable Condition using Ableton Live. There are 11 videos in total, spanning more than two hours, and
    Music Tech Magazine7 min readTechnology & Engineering
    ERICA SYNTHS Syntrx £2,700
    Erica Synths has garnered a respected reputation over recent years – and it’s the company’s development of interesting Eurorack modules coupled with wide support for the Eurorack community that is the backbone of this success story. While breaking ou
    Music Tech Magazine1 min read
    LOOPMASTERS Bad Taste Recordings: Malux
    Price £20 Contact loopmasters.com With a stream of releases on labels such as Bad Taste, RAM, Visions and more under his belt, d’n’b producer Malux brings his tech-driven sound-design skills to Loopmasters. There are about 80 loops and about 140 one-
    Music Tech Magazine9 min read
    KORG Opsix £700
    Of the many consumer-facing and industry-changing technological battles that have been fought over the years, some have had clear winners that have set new standards against which their rivals are judged. Synthesisers have seen their fair share of co
    Music Tech Magazine1 min readComputers
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    Music Tech Magazine5 min read
    ROB PAPEN Blade 2 £80
    Familiarity breeds comfort. But there are some forms of synthesis that still feel under-represented by the market. It might be because synth-makers do not want to confront customers with drastic change. It may be because these more alien synth types
    Music Tech Magazine5 min readTechnology & Engineering
    RØDE PodMic £100
    Røde has made some smart moves in the world of podcasting in recent years. With its PodMic, the Australian company is creating tough competition for classic broadcast microphones at a fraction of the price. For this review, we’re pitting the PodMic a
    Music Tech Magazine6 min readComputers
    MODAL ELECTRONICS Cobalt8 FROM £500
    When Modal Electronics first burst onto the synth scene back in 2015, it made quite the impression. The mesmerising 002 and 008 drew high praise, despite their lofty price points. Having set a high bar, Modal has more recently turned its attention to
    Music Tech Magazine6 min readTechnology & Engineering
    NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Guitar Rig 6 Pro £180 OR £90 UPDATE
    Guitar Rig Pro is a legendary processing workstation. Like many of the hardware counterparts from decades before its existence, Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig has slowly become a staple of software-based multi-effects processing. At its core, the pro
    Music Tech Magazine6 min read
    VOCHLEA MUSIC Dubler Studio Kit £260
    Virtually every producer has at one stage wanted to realise the brilliant concept in their head but lacked the means to translate it into sound. With the Dubler Studio Kit, British music-tech company Vochlea aims to help you quickly turn that idea in
    Music Tech Magazine3 min read
    TOONTRACK Classic Rock EBX £60
    It was mere months ago that we got our first taste of Toontrack’s EZBass package. Supplying the Swedes’ typically slick EZ treatment but this time for bass, it’s a polished product that saw us award it the highest accolade. Our only real criticism wa
    Music Tech Magazine4 min readTechnology & Engineering
    ARTURIA KeyStep 37 £180
    The latest addition to Arturia’s Step family, the KeyStep 37 feels reassuringly sturdy as soon as we remove it from its trendy box. There’s a real sense of weight behind this to stop it sliding around when played. But it’s the range of ins and outs t
    Music Tech Magazine3 min readTechnology & Engineering
    IZOTOPE Nectar 3+ £190 OR £60 UPGRADE
    We reviewed Nectar 3 about two years ago and found it a jam-packed package for all vocal-production needs. Since then, it has found a place on millions of vocal tracks and its tools have proved invaluable for quick and precise mixing. One area that w
    Music Tech Magazine5 min read
    UVI World Suite 2 £270
    There’s a sizeable market for plug-ins that cover world instruments. From the African udu to the West Indies’ sun drum, from the well known to the lesser known, almost any instrument can be found in sampled form. The problem is that, in most cases, y
    Music Tech Magazine5 min read
    Creative Vocoding in Fl Studio
    Revolutionary since its timely invention in 1938, the vocoder has miraculously granted all the power to sing for almost a century. It has become a staple of the electronic musician’s sound-mangling toolset too. Conceived on the cusp of World War II,
    Music Tech Magazine9 min read
    SPITFIRE AUDIO Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations £400
    Those who have followed the Spitfire story will know that this UK sample developer’s sound was born and largely raised within AIR Studios. Though last year’s impressive flagship BBC Symphony Orchestra libraries were rightly recorded at Maida Vale, AI
    Music Tech Magazine6 min readComputers
    Performing With The Show Page in Studio One 5
    Fans of Studio One are always on the lookout for the next addition that will further streamline their workflow. By this point, users are well aware that PreSonus always has its ear to the ground and works tirelessly to put its most requested features
    Music Tech Magazine6 min read
    Synthesising Drums in Cubase
    We all love the big, fat thump of an 808 kick as much as we love the tight crispness of the 909’s snare. If you could audit every computer and device in the world, you would likely find petabytes of storage given over to these tiniest of samples. But
    Music Tech Magazine6 min readTechnology & Engineering
    Brand-new And Updated Devices in Ableton Live 11
    The Ableton Live 11 beta has brought us new and updated devices – some instruments, some audio effects. These novel updates, however, are not all obvious at first glance. Live 11 boasts many new flagship features too, such as track comping, which we’
    Music Tech Magazine6 min readComputers
    Multi-sampling With Sampler in Logic Pro X
    If there’s one word that sums up Apple’s revised version of sampling in Logic Pro X, it’s “immediacy”. If you’ve followed our previous workshops on Quick Sampler and Auto Sampler (featured in issues 211 and 212, respectively), you’ll know that Apple
    Music Tech Magazine10 min readTechnology & Engineering
    Public Service Announcement
    Having explored a diverse range of sonic concepts across three dizzying records, Public Service Broadcasting have earned their reputation as one of the UK’s most distinctive acts, recognisable for their driving synth sound and for incorporating vast
    Music Tech Magazine7 min read
    Recolour Your Tracks
    There are infinite ways to affect the colour of a sound when recording. Take, for example, a vocal part. You’ve got the fundamental choice of who you want to sing a part, you can dictate how they deliver it, and you can select where you record them.
    Music Tech Magazine9 min read
    History In The Making making Scoring Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
    Now in its thirteenth year, Ubisoft’s open-world action-adventure franchise continues to go from strength to strength. Renowned for its distinctive combination of historic fiction and sci-fi elements, recent entries have seen the award-winning series
    Music Tech Magazine6 min readTechnology & Engineering
    Get Your Pitch Perfect
    Drums and rhythmic loops are a big part of sampling but things are different when it comes to sampling pitched instruments. Early samplers lacked the memory to capture sustained sounds in full – a single piano note allowed to decay naturally could be
    Music Tech Magazine3 min readTechnology & Engineering
    Striving For Authenticity
    By allowing you to capture more of the subtly varying timbres produced by acoustic instruments, multi-sampling helps to make sampled instruments more expressive and realistic. Sampling multiple notes produced by an instrument and spreading them over

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