Download this month’s videos: bit.ly/cm334downloads Watch as we explain how to use this chiptune-style softsynth. Yours free this issue! Read the full article from p14 Our resident music production gurus walk you through their specialist field every

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> Minimal Audio’s Current combines a powerful synth with a cloud-based ecosphere. You can upload samples, presets and wavetables into it from a constantly updated cloud via its Stream tab, and you also get access to Minimal Audio’s excellent roster o

Download the accompanying video and the MIDI/audio files at bit.ly/cm334downloads > Equalisation (EQ) is one of our most important mixing tools, but it’s important to use it in ways that improve our overall mix, and understanding its various forms c

Download the accompanying video and the MIDI/audio files at bit.ly/cm334downloads > Organs and pianos are two of the best loved sounds in dance music, and continue to remain popular in the music of today. Producers like MK, Marshall Jefferson, Liqui

Vocoders and talkboxes are easily confused, not least of all because they sound incredibly similar. Because of their sonic similarities, you can arguably substitute one for the other, which, as we will discover, may not be such a bad idea – if you wa

We’ve seen some very old software get updated recently, but this might well be the longest wait between versions that we’ve seen; the original Effectrix came out some 15 years ago. The concept was very innovative at the time: a bank of 14 effects wit

> Learning his craft at the age of 16, before going on to gain recognition for his sample-based flights of musical discovery, Catching Flies – aka George King – is positively giddy at the prospect of his latest record, Tides being released. This seco

> Can you remember the first time you heard a voice on a track which employed a sound that felt like it was a mixture of real vocals and a synthesiser? The chances are, you were listening to an instrument known as a vocoder, which combines synthesis

If there is one thing that you will need to get the most out of your electric vocal propositions, it’s a microphone. Strictly speaking, any microphone can do the job, but some microphones are better than others, and it doesn’t always mean that you ha

In our next issue we’re going to show you how to craft and deploy time-based effects such as stutter, reverse, half-time playback, pitchbending and beyond, simply and effectively. We’ll also arm you with a very cool gift to aid you in your time-trave

It’s very rare for a trademarked product to enter the vocabulary, but that’s exactly what Antares managed, by accident or otherwise. As we’ve delved into in this issue’s cover feature, the mere mention of Auto-Tune will have even non-producers imagin

Download all assets for this issue at bit.ly/cm334downloads With a handmade, DIY approach, Robbie has crafted some seriously hypnotic dub-based sounds for you this month… “Essentials to throw into a dub remix for a classic tone. Heavily filtered and

> Oeksound has become the developer to watch. It has big support for its small number of plugins, with their often dynamic and adaptive natures processing your signals as you go. Titles like Spiff control transients while the multi-award winner Sooth

Nuendo has always been an advancement of its stablemate, Cubase Pro, the only obvious visual difference being the program icon and name shown on window titlebars. This close relationship means that Nuendo 13 includes all of the updates and additions

One of the ‘safe bets’ in production software is surely Arturia’s V Collection. It’s always offered a lot of quality keyboard emulations for its price, and it’s regularly updated; great value when you consider its scale. However, it’s also a victim o

> It’s something that, at some point in our lives, we all must sadly face. The death of a loved one – particularly a parent – can be a life-defining, emotionally crippling moment. For Danish techno monolith Kölsch, the loss of his father, Patrick Rei

NEW RELEASES • COMMENT • INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS Computer Music favourite GForce Software is back with another update to one of its existing synths, this time its version IV of VSM (aka Virtual String Machine), which GForce point to as being “the perfect

Download the accompanying video and the MIDI/audio files at bit.ly/cm334downloads > Before we get started this month, let’s just make sure that we are talking about the right kind of drone! We certainly aren’t talking about any form of flying machin

> Since digital became the norm for music production, there has been a persistent cry from analogue die-hards and audiophiles that digital just doesn’t cut the sonic mustard, with one adjective being mentioned more than any other: warmth. But what is

The world of music in 1974 wasn’t prepared for an electronic music revolution, nor for that revolution to take place by way of a track that lasted for 22 minutes and 45 seconds… about a motorway. But that’s what happened. Up until ‘74, synth music ha

When Tom Oberheim launched his company in 1969, he probably didn’t realise the influence his designs would have. His initial products were based around effects processing, followed swiftly by one of the first digital sequencers. But it was the appear

In the future, when our children will (or at least should) be taught synth history, the ‘ARP’ name will undoubtedly make at least one appearance. The Odyssey will definitely take its place as the 1970s alternative to the Minimoog, it’s a screaming Ro

You may well be drawn to reading this feature based on the fact that you make a type of music that will benefit from one of these forms of vocal processing. The undeniable fact is that many of these processed elements have become intrinsically linked

It’s always exciting when we get to give away a synth, and this month’s offering is an absolute corker. Inphonik RYM2612 (VST, VST3, AU, AAX, Apple Silicon and Reason Rack) makes an excellent addition to your sonic toolkit and this £44 synth is yours