Electronic Musician

The new ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN is a “must have” resource for anyone who makes music, plays music, and shares music. Every issue includes "gig tested" product reviews on music gear, tons of how-to's, and interviews with today's stars revealing the secrets of their songwriting approaches and audio-production concepts.

It’s all in your head(phones)

Electronic Musician

M-Audio updates the Oxygen MIDI keyboard range

FOCUSRITE BUYS SEQUENTIAL, TAKING OWNERSHIP OF DAVE SMITH’S ANALOG SYNTHS

FREE FIRMWARE UPDATE MEANS ARTURIA’S KEYSTEP PRO NOW DOES EVEN MORE

ABLETON LOOP CREATE IS A FREE ONLINE EVENT FOR MUSIC-MAKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

MODAL ELECTRONICS SAY THE SKULPT SE IS THE MOST AFFORDABLE MPE HARDWARE SYNTH

UVI’S SUPER-7 COMBINES JUNO-106 AND 707 SOUNDS TO RECREATE AN ‘80S GROOVE STATION

AKAI GOES OLD-SCHOOL WITH THE ‘80S-STYLE MPC ONE RETRO

ANTELOPE AUDIO’S AXINO SYNERGY CORE PUTS AN AUDIO INTERFACE INSIDE A USB MIC

REASON 12 IS COMING

UNIVERSAL AUDIO’S LUNA UPDATE TURNS THE DAW INTO AN API ANALOG CONSOLE

FabFilter Timeless 3

PRODUCING ON HEADPHONES • Learn the benefits of those fancy electronic earmuffs, and discover how to make the best of both worlds

Emulating monitors in your DAW

Shure SRH1540

Focal Clear MG Professional

More ways to monitor

Austrian Audio Hi-X55

Referencing your work

V-Moda M-200

4 more production headphones to try… • Studio ‘phones for all scenarios, tastes and budgets

SOUL CLAP • Soul Clap’s third album is founded on a passion for environmental and social activism. Danny Turner reveals the deep house duo’s motivation and dualistic approach to production

Celebrating Chick Corea • The music world suffered a huge loss with the sudden passing of Chick Corea in early February. His influence and wide-spanning creative output touched on so many aspects of jazz, latin and fusion music. This month and next I’d like to celebrate his innovative playing as a synth soloist.

Neo soul chords • It’s time to get soulful as Dave helps you play and program the complex minor chords heard in modern R&B productions

Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier • The very epitome of vintage vibe, this classic compressor has bathed many a track in its incandescent tube glow

Three optimum opto compressor emulations

Pigments 3 $119 arturia.com • The Pigments powerhouse gets upgraded to v3, adding more engines, more waveforms and more effects. Have we reached saturation point?

ANALOG VS DIGITAL

UNO Synth Pro from $399 ikmultimedia.com • Does this duo of synths from the budget-friendly Italian brand earn that 'pro' tag?

Pulsar-23 $2,444 somasynths.com • Combining esoteric sequencing, an experimental ethos and tons of patchability, Pulsar is a drum machine like no other

SHAOS THEORY

DriveShaper $47 cableguys.com • Analog-style distortion and creative wavefolding make this a pulsating box of gritty filth… which is far more pleasant than it sounds

Vocal Bender $155 waves.com • This appealing vocal mangler lets you give music’s most essential instrument the color and dexterity modern pop production demands

ROUND THE BEND

M-Track Solo and Duo from $60 m-audio.com • Want a basic, reliable interface? One of these handy boxes from M-Audio might be just what you need

Beads $360 mutableinstruments.com • Is this reimagining of Mutable’s popular texture synth Clouds a case of blue-sky thinking?

ATTENURANDOMIZERS

The Mouse Outfit – UK Hip Hop

UNDERSTANDING MPE • MPE – an expressive, polyphonic take on MIDI control – started life as a niche new tool for keyboard players, but in 2021 it’s being added...