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Critical mixing advice in Ableton Live 10
Though there’s a multitude of technical processes wrapped up in the catch-all title of ‘mixing’, this across-the-board advice is worth considering before you finalise your track.Cut corners in your workflow with Logic Pro X’s Marquee Tool
Learn how a nifty tool lets you make edits across multiple tracks simultaneously.Weekend Workshop: Create glitchy beats with Momentum for free
Perform impressive beat slicing and glitching effects with Big Fish Audio’s free sample manipulator.Learn the science behind Ableton Live’s Frequency Shifter
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Pin Electronics’ Miasma is a portable analogue synth with a touchscreen pin matrix
Offering EMS-style signal routing without the actual pins.ValhallaDSP’s free Supermassive reverb expands with two new galaxies
Great Magellanic Cloud and Triangulum arrive with Beta 1.1.1MusicTech’s My Forever Studio podcast returns for Season 2
Launching today, we ask music producers what gear they would take into eternity.Softube recreates the MiniMoog with Model 72 Synthesizer System
The soft synth component models the analogue monophonic synth from 1972
- Reviews
Review: Loopmasters King of Blues Guitar
Old-school licks, blues-scale runs and vintage guitar charm resonates from this axe-led sample library.Review: Teisco Interface Pedal
Computer-based amp and effects processing is flexible but difficult to incorporate into live guitar rigs. Teisco looks to change that.The Big Review: UDO Super 6
Every superhero has an origin story. With its inaugural instrument, Bristol-based UDO plans to bring high-flying powerful polysynth action to studios around the globe.Review: Native Instruments and e-instruments Stradivari Violin
As the industry’s leading light of orchestral software, e-instruments has many strings to its bow. But this one, crafted via a legendary Stradivari violin, may just be its best.
- Features
Show Off Your Studio: Jim Daneker and the Fortress of Synthetude
With 27 years of industry experience and gear lust, Jim’s packed his Nashville studio with an abundance of powerful tools.Show Off Your Studio: Luigi Madonna’s humble techno playground
This week, the revered Italian producer lets us into his studio and tells us how his Erica Synths Techno Machine got a runaround designing kicks for his new EP.Nick Launay on producing Idles, vintage tech and keeping the fire alive in the studio
After three decades producing the likes of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kate Bush, PiL, Arcade Fire and Idles, Nick tells us how he approaches unique musicians, and why attitude is just as important as technical proficiency.Show Off Your Studio: Never Dull’s bright and sleek groove workshop
The house and disco producer lets us into his Tijuana studio, where head-bopping basslines and luscious guitar licks are made.
- Tutorials
- Ableton LiveApple Logic ProAvid Pro ToolsImage-Line FL StudioOther DAWs & TipsPreSonus Studio OneReason Studios
Critical mixing advice in Ableton Live 10
Though there’s a multitude of technical processes wrapped up in the catch-all title of ‘mixing’, this across-the-board advice is worth considering before you finalise your track.Cut corners in your workflow with Logic Pro X’s Marquee Tool
Learn how a nifty tool lets you make edits across multiple tracks simultaneously.Weekend Workshop: Create glitchy beats with Momentum for free
Perform impressive beat slicing and glitching effects with Big Fish Audio’s free sample manipulator.Learn the science behind Ableton Live’s Frequency Shifter
Live's sound-wrangling effect can achieve some unorthodox sounds. We show you how to tame the wild device.
- Guides
The best headphones to buy in 2020: 13 best all-purpose headphones
Looking to mix at home, record in a professional studio or make music on the go? You’ll be hard-pressed to do so without a decent set of ‘phones.The best audio interfaces to buy in 2020: 12 best audio interfaces under $300
Break fresh ground with your music, not the bank.12 best controllers for Ableton Live
Ableton Live is more fun and feisty when you add a hardware controller, turning the software into more of an instrument. Here are our picks of the best Live controllers available in 2020.13 of the best freeware reverbs
Here are some of the best software reverbs that money can’t buy – because they’re free.
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