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.

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Electronic Musician

Moog unveils the Subharmonicon

Akai’s MPC Live II has built-in monitors for true standalone music-making

The Make Noise 0-CTRL could be the perfect device for all your CV sequencing needs

THIS MONTH IN SOFTWARE • DAW updates and systems that want to change the way we make music. Developers are still up to some gamechanging tricks during lockdown

iZotope TONAL BALANCE CONTROL 2

iZotope VISUAL MIXER

NEXT-LEVEL DELAY • Are your echoes feeling a little repetitive? We’re here to give you the knowledge you need to get the most out of today’s state-of-the-art delay tools and techniques

DIY ‘pseudo-reverb’ processor • What’s the difference between delay and reverb? The amount. Here we’ll go overboard with our delay plugins to splash in a sea of reverberant sound

Working with multitap delays • These processors allow you to time your delay echoes to a grid, crafting and sequencing the perfect pattern for every occasion

Programming considerations

Getting delays to hit out-of-sync with your notes • Digital timing is basically perfect – but being perfect isn’t going to float every production boat! Think about bending those delays out of shape every so often…

DOs & DON’Ts

Make your own modulation

THE ORB • Ambient godfather, Alex Paterson, returns with a surprising new album. Alongside the chilled anthems, you’ll hear arms-aloft house and even a touch of drum&bass

Two-Handed Chromatic Climbs • Learn a bravura lick to add excitement to your solos.

Musical meter • If the term ‘beats in a bar’ immediately makes you think about DJing in the club, it might be time to refocus…

Ensoniq Mirage • A down and dirty grunge machine that made sampling affordable for the masses, its compromised fidelity would eventually become sought after

Three modern Mirage alternatives

Tracker • Polyend’s new sampler takes its cues from old school software trackers but, on closer inspection, this is more than just a tribute act…

THE HARDWARE

LiftFX • This concisely-presented new plugin lets you create uplifting or downshifting track effects without a sample in sight

Crush Shaper • CableGuys add a bitcrush effect to the ShaperBox collection. So what has this crusher got to offer that others don’t?

Track and trigger

PercX Pro • Mixing up onboard pattern sequencing and one-shot triggering, is this the most comprehensive percussion ROMpler yet?

Close to the Edit

Drum Computer • With nothing but virtual analog and digital synthesis under the hood, this triple-engine beatbox is an electronic percussion powerhouse

The sequencer

Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio • Acoustica Mixcraft’s latest update puts it up there with the best PC DAWs around. So is it time for you to open a new DAW?

Other instruments

FX Collection • After two years and five bundles, Arturia rounds its varied effect plugins up into a single collection. Time to get processing…

Zenology • The Jupiter X’s ZEN-Core engine arrives in your DAW. But is this generous collection a Roland Cloud-buster?

EVO 4 • Audient might have a history of big mixing desks, but it now also has one of the most compact interfaces available. Is it EVO so good?

Lithium

EDM

SOUND DESIGN: AIRY PADS • Adding vapor to your waves.

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