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.

Future Music

Get with the times

IN THE ARCHIVE – UPDATED! • FM’s Sample Archive gives you over 18GB of carefully-curated, royalty-free sounds to use in your music. Here’s what’s inside…

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Arturia update Pigments and PolyBrute • The French brand add major new features to their flagship hardware and software synths

Slate Digital promise to go beyond Ableton Live’s OTT preset with the MO-TT dynamics plugin

VCV Rack 2.0 launches with VST support and more

Reason’s new MIDI Player Effect can generate basslines in seconds

SSL launch Big SiX SuperAnalogue mixer

TALKING SHOP Nathan Fake

Prince Fatty Supersize • Mr Bongo, 2010

In the studio with Prince Fatty

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Cate Le Bon Pompeii • Mexican Summer

Madmess Rebirth • Hassle Records

Roedelius & Story 4 Hands • Erased Tapes

Niagara Magna Moralia • Disciples

Update your production skills • Give your music-making vocabulary a 2022 refresh!

3 smart creative tools

3 intelligent mixing solutions

Mix & master for streaming • Learn how the loudness rules have changed and get your tunes to make the grade online

Using Mastering The Mix Levels to prep a track for streaming

THREE MASTER TOOLS

Spatial audio & Dolby Atmos • Learn how – and why – you should work with this increasingly usable system

Mixing spatial audio in Logic • You too can mix with ‘stereo killer’ Dolby Atmos. We reveal how in Logic 10.7

Getting started with Atmos in Logic

Working with Dolby Atmos Music Panner in any DAW

BONOBO • After years of touring, Simon Green found himself lacking creative stimulus. Danny Turner learns how modular synths fuelled his imagination

PRODUCE LIKE… David Castellani • Get to know this LA techno mogul’s modular-and-more setup – in gloriously nitpicky detail

GET THAT SOUND… Introducing the Anti-Kulture Precision Disruptor

DAVID CASTELLANI TRACK BUILDER… Turning modular jams into club-ready techno

WHY I LOVE MY… Elektron Digitakt

Get 3D with Animoog Z • Rob Redman gives us a kickstart in taking sound design to another dimension, with Moog’s latest virtual instrument

Learn to navigate Animoog Z with our essential workflow tips • Discover how to think outside the box, interacting and navigating in new ways, to get the most out of the device you’re playing on

Creating a modulated synth pad on the iPad • Using a touch interface, let’s set up a playable pad, with modulation to help shape the tone over time

MMM • The glowing techno chords of MMM’s long-awaited debut album, On The Edge, are delivered with scapular precision. Danny Turner charts the record’s creation

Drill • From roots in South Side Chicago, this twist on trap has spawned regional variations around the world

Three regional drill classics

DAEDELUS • The US producer teams up with UK poet Joshua Idehen for a new work of hip-hop-influenced electronics. Matt Mullen finds out more

Korg ARP 2600 M £1,699 • Korg are back with a smaller take on the ARP 2600. Bruce Aisher checks whether any magic has been lost in the process

IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-Gear pedals €300 each • IK place the...