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.

The ‘pro’ touch

Future Music

Is Natural Drums the future of AI beats? • DAACI claims that its “AI co-pilot for drums” will improvise like a real drummer and generate beats for you in real time

Excite Audio’s new drum plugin promises “instant breaks”

Turn guitar riffs into ambient soundscapes with NUSofting's free Sosir Freeze-Delay

Kurzweil goes back to the ’90s with the new K20 series synths

DataMind Audio's Combobulator resynthesises audio through neural networks to recreate other artists' styles

Free Native Instruments plugin lets you conduct thousands of Jacob Collier fans

Pittsburgh Modular Taiga gets upgraded with a keyboard and expansion bay

AlphaTheta pivots from Pioneer DJ with high-end rotary mixer

Loukeman • The Toronto producer talks Sd-2, saturation plugins and pitch-shifting the master bus

Orbital Orbital

Let’s make a track… in the style of Fred Again.. and DJ Seinfeld • Watch us build a melodic house track using FM’s Sample Archive in under an hour

How can I quickly create new percussive textures for my drum pattern?

Claire Rousay, Sentiment

ON OUR PLAYLIST

Various Artists, Club Moss

aya, Lip Flip

MIX LIKE THE PROS! • Ever find yourself struggling to capture that ‘pro’ polish? Do you find your tracks lack that hardto-define quality that separates an amateur-sounding mix from the releases you hear from your favourite artists? Fear not. We’ve all been there – and we’re here to help. This issue, we’ve sat down with a varied selection of producers, engineers and artists to quiz them on their essential mixing advice and studio insights. Over the following pages you’ll find tips to help you work faster and smarter, from the start of a session to finishing that final mix.

GEORGIA • Solo artist, collaborator, songwriter, producer, remixer and drummer Georgia Barnes is also a self-confessed synth nerd, which she has every right to blame on her upbringing. Here she explains how she works within that electronic world with producers and artists including Rostam, William Orbit and Olly Alexander…

SCANNER • Electronic artist, producer, gear explorer, film composer, and modular master Robin Rimbaud has been releasing music as Scanner and other acts for more than four decades. Here, he gives us a more electronic expert viewpoint on what separates a demo from the finished article…

RIDE • Ride frontman Mark Gardener chats to Danny Turner about the shoegaze tag and the driving force behind their seventh album, Interplay

Native Instruments Kontrol S61 Mk3 • Get up to date with NI’s latest hardware ecosystem, discover how it works… and what all those acronyms are about

NAUM GABO • 20 years after first starting, Jonnie Wilkes and James Savage finally release their debut Naum Gabo LP, F. Lux. Danny Turner learns more

Eurorack percussion

KELLY MORAN • Matt Mullen speaks to the New York-based composer about her latest project, which places the Yamaha Disklavier front and centre

Brian Eno • Producer, collaborator, hard-touse synth champion, ambient maestro, app developer and chancer Brian Eno is certainly a pioneer, but of what? Well, how about everything?

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