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

SSL's UF1 DAW controller promises to “set a new standard” • Control up to three DAWs simultaneously with a single fader

The RX1200 plugin could be the closest you'll get to having an E-MU SP-1200 in your DAW

Akai launches the MPC One+

Arturia releases FX Collection

Klevgrand's Richter is a ‘tectonic’, super-heavy compressor

Air Music releases new Juno-60 emulation, Jura

UNDERSTANDING: Monitor placement • There's a lot more to effective monitoring than simply buying the best products you can afford and plugging them all together. Setup plays a huge part in ensuring you get the most out of your equipment and environment

Quick effects tips: Part 2 • Get more out of your productions with our series of quick and dirty effects tips

DESIGN YOUR PERFECT SYSTEM • The beauty of modular synthesis is that you can take it in any direction you like. Design your dream setup with our end-to-end guide

Oscillators • The beating (well, technically oscillating) heart of your modular project

Filters • Introducing the first elements of control…

Sequencers • The brains of the operation

Effects • The cherry on the cake

LFO/modulators • An extra hand

Utilities • Mults, mixers and more

OCTAVE ONE • Aespite diverging from their techno roots, Octave One tell Danny Turner they'd sooner stop the music than sell their 909

Crafting a bassline • This month, Dave Clews takes you through bassline programming bass-ics, from both ‘real’ and synth-based approaches

Ableton Push from $999 • Ableton's controller goes fully MPE and throws off the shackles of Live itself.

Adam Audio A8H $1,499 each • If you like slightly bigger monitors, a three-way design may be for you.

Røde NT1 5th Generation $327 • This long established mic has had a significant upgrade.

Roland FP-E50 $999 • Is it a piano, a synth, an arranger or something else? Meet the Roland keyboard that wants to do it all

Noise Engineering Wuantus Trajecta $333 • Noise Engineering's new envelope generator looks like an essential module.

Eve Audio SC2070 $1,309 each • Looking for some pro monitors? Meet the new two-way design from Eve Audio

Image-Line FL Studio 21 $99 to $500 PC MAC • FL Studio 21 is not celebrating a birthday, as the previous version did, but is introducing some significant additions.

Comparing FL Studio editions

Cherry Audio Mercury-6 $69 PC MAC • Cherry's latest synth arrives from the orbit of Mercury with vintage stimulus from one of the biggest gas giants.

Drops of Jupiter

BLEASS SampleWiz 2 $73 • Inspired by the satisfying spontaneous immediacy of classic hardware samplers, this is a powerful up-to-date sampler.

Polyverse Supermodal $99 • By using 27 models – from physical bodies to math formulae -Supermodal could be the filter you didn't know you need.

Spectrasonics Twisted Trees Sonic Extension $149 • If you go down to the woods today, you'll be surprised to find a sound designer not so much hugging trees as hitting them!

Toontrack EZKeys Synthwave & EZX Expansion $79 PC MAC • Want your track to sound like it was birthed in the technicolor ‘80s? Toontrack are on hand.

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