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Eleventh power
Version 11 of Auto-Tune has landed, but what does the vocal effect stalwart bring to our stuffed 2024 table?
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Song Athletics: Setting a pace for the future
On the heels of a flurry of impeccably recorded sample pack releases, Song Athletics’ ongoing aim is to enrich artistic expression in a broader music production sense. To that end, it’s even co-branded a coffee range…
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Grab Song Athletics Some Drums for free with this issue!
Song Athletics has kindly provided us with a free download of the superb Some Drums!
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Cableguys TimeShaper 3
Before we begin our time manipulating odyssey, get to know this month’s free plugin, which serves as our main time-twisting tool!
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CREATIVE TIME EFFECTS
It’s the family of effects that brought you some of the world’s coolest sounds. Yes, follow our guide and time could mean money for you and your music
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Time-shaping concepts
Thought that the domain of time-manipulation started and finished with delay? Time to think again!
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Reverse audio
Backwards is the new forwards: the history of reverse audio in music
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Time-stretch trendsetters
By the ’90s it might have seemed to some like all of the possibilities for subverting playback had been done… or were they?
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KASBO
Birthed from an agonising stress-related hearing loss, and put together in an ABBA-owned prison-turned studio, Kasbo’s third album The Learning of Urgency is a potent, melody-infused statement from an artist in ascendence
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#05 Build an LFO wobble bass in BazilleCM
Patching LFO into your life doesn’t have to make you feel wobbly, unless that’s exactly what you’re trying to achieve
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#07 Mid-side EQing techniques
Enhance the stereo imaging on your dance music project and hear it shine!
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#4 Make a track in the style of Pet Shop Boys
The Pet Shop Boys have just released a new album, Nonetheless, so it’s a great time to show you how to create some of their signature sounds for free
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#20 Working with VCA groups
This clever feature can be indispensable when you’re mixing, and a great companion to submixing
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PEEL
Forging a close bond as two-thirds of international superstars, Foster the People, Sean Cimino and Isom Innis have embarked on a parallel life as Peel. Taking in influences both new and old, the pair’s debut LP Acid Star showcases the breadth of their unfettered sonic ambitions…
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Modalics MINDst Drums $99
It might be a bit too purple for Andy Jones, but behind its simple UI, MINDst Drums delivers all the mix-ready, real beats you could need…
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Wavesfactory Equalizer £85
Another day, another smart EQ, but does this rather blandly-named processor do a great job without stressing you out? Andy Jones tunes in
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Korg Gadget 3 $299 (Mac) $40 (iOS)
Korg’s Gadget is unusual in that it made the move from iOS to desktop, but is there room for it in 2024? Our inspector of Gadget: Andy Jones
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SonicProjects OP-X PRO-3 €99
Roland Schmidt discovers the new Poly-plugin from SonicProjects, which pays homage to the big beasts from Oberheim
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E-instruments Desolate Guitars €$149
Desolate Guitars could be the guitar library you didn’t know you needed, and is one of the most inspirational tools Andy Jones has used this year
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Arturia Pigments 5 €199
Arturia’s Pigments is one synth to do it all, in as slick a way as possible. And v5’s additions are a lot better than they sound, says Andy Jones
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Plugin Boutique Scaler EQ £59 or £4.99/month
Scaler EQ delivers harmonic processing we didn’t know we needed, but once heard, Andy Jones might just apply it to everything
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HELADO NEGRO
Roberto Carlos Lange’s acclaimed latest album took him on a synth quest across the US. But it was back at home, piecing it all together in Ableton, that the rich tapestry took shape
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Epic sci-fi and strings
This month, we’ve seen the future in the shape of our epic sci-fi flavoured pack, as well as some emotion-stirring strings to bring us back down to Earth!
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Classic samples The 303 collection pt.1
In issue 303, we celebrated the Roland TB-303, the iconic bass synthesiser that became a staple of many a late-night rave!
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