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Blast from the past: Elektron SidStation
How a uni project became one of the most distinguished designers of boutique electronic music instruments…
Arturia’s Synclavier V 2 can resynthesize a sound from a single sample
New sampling features for this authentic emulation
Fluid Audio spills the beans on its SRI-2 audio interface and monitor switcher
A multi-purpose device for your desktop
Intuitive Audio’s Chord Composer plugin lets you create customised progressions with just a few clicks
You can also trigger chords from single notes and edit notes, velocities and voicings
Akai Pro’s MPK Mini Play is a compact MIDI controller keyboard with its own built-in sounds
Use it to control your software or play it on its own
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How to use a delay’s feedback control to create cascading, building echoes
Learn the ins and outs of this fundamental effects audio processing technique
How to give your beats personality with lo-fi and distortion effects
Grunge up your drums using slicing techniques and plugin effects
How to customise your drum dynamics with simple volume tweaks
Never mind all that compression and limiting business - you can get your drums sounding better dynamically using nothing but volume and velocity
How to program mixed-resolution, trap-style hi-hat patterns
As well as their sub-heavy 808 kicks, the drums in trap are known for those crazy skittering hi-hats. Let’s take a look…
12 dynamite drum processing tips
Get your drum tracks sounding bang on with these tried and tested techniques
How to perfect your polyrhythms in Ableton Live
A groove is always more interesting when it comprises more than one rhythm. Here's how it's done…
How to add swing to your beats in Logic Pro and Ableton Live
Make your drum and other rhythm section parts more interesting with our MIDI manipulation walkthrough
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Steinberg UR-RT4 review
- £558
- €569
- $749
Want a compact interface loaded with high-end analogue and DSP circuitry?
EastWest Hollywood Choirs Diamond Edition review
- $799
All singing from the same hymn sheet
Propellerhead Europa review
- £134
Reason 10’s celestial headliner can now be loaded into any DAW as a VST or Audio Units plugin…
Audio Damage Quanta review
- $99
This release wants to wrestle granular synthesis from the clutches of beard-stroking academia
