Future Music

Future Music delivers the technique and technology behind the hits. Packed with inspiration for today’s modern musician there’s reviews of hot new gear, tons of tutorials to help you get the most out of your hardware and software, and exclusive In The Studio features where the stars take apart their tracks. Our Zinio edition does not include the DVD but DOES INCLUDE the full samples and tutorial files to download. Full details inside. Download does not include In The Studio With video. This digital edition is not printable.

Future Music

The low down

Generate new musical ideas in Ableton Live • Coming up with good melodies is difficult. Sometimes you just need a little bit of extra help spark creativity

Akai Pro’s MPC Key 37 is a standalone synth and sampling keyboard that promises to blend portability with power • The MPC Key 61 gets a new, downsized sibling 

Cherry Audio releases its first drum machine

SoundGhost Jumble: "An ode to the limitlessness of generative music"

The Access Virus TI 2 has been discontinued: is this the end of the line for one of the synths of the century?

Audacity gets free AI plugins for music separation, generation and remixing

Grubs up: Dada Life serve up the recipe to their Secret Sauce

The Dirtywave M8 handheld tracker has a Model:02 version coming this summer

The new Omnichord has finally broken cover with retro and modern sounds, keyboard/drum pad modes and MIDI Out

Is it an EQ? An effect? Who cares? Oeksound Bloom promises the world

Folly Group • The rising UK group discuss WhatsApp flute loops and recording “the punk way”

Juno Reactor Bible Of Dreams

RELEASES

BASS SYNTHESIS • From subtle subs to frequency-filling basslines, synth bass comes in many shapes and sizes. Learning how to craft your own patches is a fulfilling and useful skill to learn

CARL CRAIG • Second generation techno pioneer Carl Craig chats to Danny Turner about the genre’s cultural visibility and how he’s keeping the flame alive

IN THE STUDIO WITH Paranoid London • Quinn Whalley of the UK acid duo on studio sessions and capturing the magic of analogue gear

AI sample organisers • Discover the latest time-saving programs and workflow features that samplists should know

Make music together • It’s never been easier to collaborate. Here’s why you should...

BEN FROST • On Scope Neglect, Ben Frost extends his guitar obsession by re-engineering our perception of metal music. Danny Turner finds out more

Autechre • We explore the genius of the divisive, Warp-affiliated duo who have taken the shears to electronic music staples 

AUTECHRE IN FOUR RELEASES

JULIA HOLTER • The composer-producer’s latest album continues her quest to distil feelings we never knew had a name. Kate Putttick learns more 

Ableton Live 12 Suite £539 • CONTACT WHO: Ableton WEB: ableton.com KEY FEATURES DAW update adding new tools, sound content, UI and workflow changes. Pricing: Live Suite: £539, Live Standard: £259, Live Intro: £69. Check site for upgrade offers

beetlecrab.audio Tempera €670 (excl VAT) • CONTACT WHO: beetlecrab.audio. WEB: playtempera.com KEY FEATURES Multi-part granular synthesiser. 4096 grains, 16 voice polyphony, per-voice filter, five per-voice routable modulators, 64 total emitters per-voice, four concurrent emitter configurations, 8GB internal storage, 16-bit stereo samples, 32-bit processing

Erica Synths Hexinverter Mindphaser £460 • CONTACT WHO: Erica Synths & Hexinverter WEB: ericasynths.lv KEY FEATURES Dual complex oscillator, Waveshaping, Through zero phase modulation, Comprehensive modbus

PreSonus Eris Studio 8 £219 each • KEY FEATURES AMPLIFICATION: Class AB, LF 75W, HF 65W...