Arc Festival Review – A Cutting Edge Experience?
Last month saw the birth of Arc Festival; a new music event in the Bristol calendar that focuses on cutting edge music and visuals, with headline acts including Clark, The Black Dog, Nathan Fake, and James Holden. More...
Propellerhead Reason 7 Review
When one of the world’s best loved DAWs gets an update we’re always excited to see what’s new. Hollin Jones lifts the lid on Reason 7 Reason is one of the most popular music-making applications around. For More...
Pioneer DJM-2000nexus & CDJ-2000nexus Review
P ioneer manufactures a large range of electrical products, but to us music-based tech-heads it’s DJ gear that springs to mind when we hear the company’s name. Like the implicit link between Technics and More...
Novation Launchpad S Review
It’s just been announced but we’ve had one for weeks. Here’s the world’s first review of Novation’s latest controller… Nearly four years ago we saw the first dedicated Live More...
Ableton Live: 25 Pro-Tips Tutorial
Save For The Future If you’re creating sounds to use in future projects there are two ways to make them easy to fully recall. To save the instrument and its associated audio plug-ins, highlight all of the devices More...
Building Custom Synth Sounds Tutorial
W hether it’s the trashy sound of punk, the fierce performance of a tribal drummer, the sheer intensity of death metal or the discordant tones explored in classical music, a factor common to them all is aggression, More...
Personalised Guitar Tones Tutorial
Whether it’s Clapton’s rich ‘woman tone’, Hendrix’s explosive wah-infused attack, or Dimebag Darrell’s thunderous roar, it takes only a few bars of listening to know exactly who we’re listening to. More...
Vector Synthesis Tutorial
The Antimoog’s distinctive X – Y pad merges concepts of both vectors synthesis and wavetable oscillators, with the Path feature working as the vector envelope. Subtractive synthesis may still be More...
Control For Live Performance Tutorial
As in so many other areas of music production, live performance is now much more of a mixed discipline than it was just a decade ago. Of course, there are still plenty of bands with the conventional line-up of More...
Live Sound Tutorial
Be Prepared! So much can go wrong during a live gig that it pays to heed the old Boy Scouts motto and take a bag of essentials with you. Our gigbag has spare 9V batteries, various screwdrivers, a Leatherman, a More...
