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.

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Future Music

Make Noise’s XPO is an oscillator module with some unique stereo tricks up its sleeve • Add some width to your rack with stereo wavefolding and PWM

New Waves plugin promises to create instant eight-part harmonies from a single voice

Eventide’s interval-based Misha instrument/sequencer is here

Mooer enters the audio interface fray with Steep I and II

IK Multimedia’s Beat Machines is a smorgasbord of vintage analogue drum sounds

Generate new musical ideas in Ableton Live • How can I use Ableton Live to create interesting randomised, chopped-up vocal sequences?

Paramida • The Panorama Bar resident on her essential plugins and love of ’90s dance music

Max Tundra Mastered By Guy At The Exchange

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CREATE YOUR OWN SAMPLE PACKS • Whether it’s to create your own unique style, share with collaborators or make a little money on the side, there’s a host of reasons to try creating your own sample packs. Let us show you how…

Tools to organise your samples • If you’re a serious samplist, you need to streamline the whole process from capture to organising so you can find everything later

7 tips for successful sampling, anywhere • How to maximise quality and maintain consistency when creating your own sample packs

Multisample your hardware instruments

Prep your one-shot samples

Adding effects to your samples • As always, selecting effects is about personal choice, but there are some that work better than others in this situation

DOs & DON’Ts

“IT’S IMPORTANT TO SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE MASSES” • We speak to artists Krust, Demuir and UMEK, who share their top tips for curating an ear-catching pack of sounds

CARL COX • Danny Turner learns how the Pioneer DJM-V10 mixer resuscitated Carl Cox’s lost passion for music making

Dr Meaker • The Bristol-based drum & bass musician created his latest track with just a single synth. We caught up with him to see how it was done

iZotope Neutron 4 • Go in-depth with the new modules and features in iZotope’s AI-assisted mixing package

COSEY FANNI TUTTI • Noise pioneer Cosey Fanni Tutti chats to Danny Turner about her soundtrack to the Delia Derbyshire docudrama

SUDAN ARCHIVES • For her second album the Ohio native puts her beloved fiddle through all new antics, guided by the same affecting, curious spirit. Kate Puttick learns more

Akai Pro MPC Key 61 £1,699 • Akai’s standalone MPC Live becomes a full-blown keyboard workstation. Martin Delaney asks how well it scales up

Moog Mavis £339 • Rob Redman discovers you can now get West Coast flavours from a traditionally East Coast synth company, while enjoying putting it together himself

PreSonus Eris E5 BT active media reference monitors £209 • Choosing the right media monitors can be confusing. Jon Musgrave sheds some light on PreSonus’ latest

Focusrite Vocaster One £190 / £290 (studio bundle including mic and headphones) • Jon Musgrave sizes up yet another newbie on the podcast production circuit

Roland Jupiter-4 From $9.99/month • The original Jupiter – and Roland’s first poly – is the latest to get the ‘Cloud’...