Electronic Musician

The new ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN is a “must have” resource for anyone who makes music, plays music, and shares music. Every issue includes "gig tested" product reviews on music gear, tons of how-to's, and interviews with today's stars revealing the secrets of their songwriting approaches and audio-production concepts.

Tapes & Patch Cables

Electronic Musician

Moog adds a Matriarch to the Mother range

Patching in from Superbooth 2019

SOFT OPINIONS • Music plus Technology plus Time equals…

THIS MONTH IN SOFTWARE • The past and the future meet in a violent head-on collision, causing them to recombine in strange new ways to make some interesting tools

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO TAPE EFFECTS

Understanding IPS

Low End Considerations

Baked To Perfection

GUY CHAMBERS • We chat to the famed pop writer about his career highs and lows, from learning Kate Bush songs on piano to releasing his debut solo album

Learn a Few Guitaristic Pitch Bend Techniques • We continue to look to guitar players for some pitch bending inspiration.

Irregular Time Signatures • Go beyond the conventional four-to-the-floor beats and make your music count as we play with the fabric of time

ARP Odyssey • It’s alive! ARP’s answer to the Minimoog refuses to be consigned history, revived for the modern age in both hardware and software

Arturia MicroFreak • This funky French digital-analog hybrid aims to bring something new to the hardware synth table – but how will it fare? Joe Rossitter gets freaky and finds out…

PSP Audioware HertzRider • With LFO modulation and left/right processing, this plugin takes frequency shifting up a notch

Modal Electronics Skulpt • As British synth brand Modal joins the compact synth fray, Si Truss asks if this digital desktop synth has enough clout to compete with the established players

Native Instruments Komplete Audio 2 • The humble 2x2 interface forms the basis of many compact and mobile setups. Jon Musgrave sizes up this latest unit

Softube Parallels • Visually beguiling and powered by a very special library of evolving waveforms, this new synth from Sweden walks its own path

ValhallaDSP Valhalla Delay • The plugin ‘verb masters turn their hand to the world of classic delays. Si Truss is mighty impressed…

Tracktion Software Waveform 10 • Another year, another update to this now well established and still-innovative DAW, but what fruits have the last 12 months borne?

Pioneer DJ TORAIZ SQUID • Pioneer DJ’s new Toraiz SQUID sequencer opens the door to a world of bespoke sequencing options, with new features like Groove Bend and speed modulation putting a new spin on your step-sequencing moves

Audio Damage Enso • The Damage’s latest gadget combines a workflow inspired by modern looper stompboxes with a sound influenced by classic tape machines

SAMPLING WITH WAVELAB PRO 9.5 • What do you do with a sampler that doesn’t sample? This application overcomes the limitations of most samplers on your computer

CREATIVE DELAY • Step beyond standard echo treatments and see how delay can be used in more creative contexts

QUICK TIPS

Cascading delays to create atmospheric layers • Creating multiple, interdependent delays can turn a single source into a lengths wash of sound

Free piano plugins • Need a proper virtual piano and need it fast? Here are five of the key players rated and slated — and they’re all completely free

Getting High • Tips and tricks for using octave fuzz

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