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.

Looking towards the future

Electronic Musician

Roland's SP-404 MKII now lets you jam with full DAW projects • The cult-classic sampler now lets you work with longer audio files

Turn your Roland MC-202 into a 21st century groovebox with the MC-2oh2 upgrade kit

Klevgrand and Wintergartan Speldosa is a magical music box plugin

Suzuki is marking its 70th anniversary by releasing a new version of the Omnichord

Roland's Zenology Pro plugin hits version 2.0: more sounds and a refined interface

UNDERSTANDING: Gain staging • WHAT IS IT? Also known as gain structure, the process of matching the output level of one piece of equipment or software to the input of the next. Important to avoid distortion, maximize signal-tonoise ratio and achieve the best sound, this is usually a question of compromise and finding a balance between all stages of the signal chain.

Quick Synth Tips: Part 1 • Get more out of your synths with our series of quick-and-dirty synthesis tips

What does A.I. mean for your music? • As artificial intelligence seeps into every aspect of modern life – self-driving cars, telephone answering systems, speech and facial recognition – so its impact in the world of music production continues apace. Here we reveal how it will impact on your music making. The good. The bad. The future!

The genesis of AI in music production • As our hard drives get more crowded with AI-driven plugins, it's easy to forget that not too long ago, the very idea of computer-driven musical decision-making seemed like sci-fi. So, how did AI grow from the giddy witterings of futurists, to an everyday norm?

What are the chances?

Die, robot

Six innovations in AI music production and composition

The secret of smart plugins • 21st century music production is now dominated by machine-learning plugins, smart algorithms and self-determining brains that can steer you to make mixes of a quality far beyond your capabilities. Let's see how AI has integrated into modern mixing

IS AI THE FUTURE OF BEATMAKING? • Audialab's Emergent Drums brings AI-powered sound generation to the DAW for the first time. We chat to the brains behind the plugin, who tells us that “drums are just the start”

CREATE A DRUM KIT • WITH AUDIALABS EMERGENT DRUMS

AVEY TARE • Perennially leapfrogging between Animal Collective and Avey Tare, Danny Turner asks Dave Portner how he manages to feed both fires

#2: Songwriting Breaking the loop • This month, Dave shares some tips on how to shake off ‘cycle syndrome’ and turn a four or eight-bar loop into a finished track

Cameo Blush • The London-based producer talks saxophone, vocal sampling and his latest EP

BLUSH'S TOP TIPS

BLAST FROM THE PAST • This cost-effective alternative to the D-50 introduced computer-savvy musicians to the concept of the ROMpler and paved the way for General MIDI

Sequential Trigon-6 $3,499 • Is the final Dave Smith-designed synth also the Memorymoog you've been waiting for?

HANDS-ON ACTION

Apple MacBook Pro M2 From $1,499 • Apple Silicon continues to raise the performance bar. How does the M2-equipped MacBook Pro stack up?

M1 VS M2

Noise Engineering Jam Jam $287 • Is Jam Jam is more than the sum of its parts?

Focal ST6 Sub12 $2,999 • The Sub 12 is a new behemoth of bass from premium audio brand Focal.

Eventide H90 Harmonizer $899 • It will take...