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.

Push the envelope

Future Music

Sketch brings nonlinear arrangement to Pro Tools

Bitwig and PreSonus’s new open file format lets you save projects in one DAW and open them in another

Focal’s redesigned Trio6 ST6 adds a Dual Focus mode

Waves’ AI Online Mastering aims to give your music a pro-level polish

Genelec’s 9320A Reference Controller lets you switch between three sets of monitors

Native Instruments’ new Kontrol S-Series keyboards arrive with polyphonic aftertouch

Viken Arman • The minimalist maestro on sampling, J Dilla and his debut album Alone Together

Black Dog Productions, Bytes

Oneohtrix Point Never, Again

Minor Science, Absent Friends Vol. III

GET EXPERIMENTAL • This issue, let’s explore sounds and ideas that break with convention, from classic examples of gear misuse or manipulation to wild sound design and creative sequencing

SAMUEL KERRIDGE • Techno producer Samuel Kerridge on the cutting-edge technology and nonlinear approach behind his forwardthinking new ‘hybrid’ DJ sets

6 ‘wrong’ production techniques that turned out ‘right’ • Sometimes music production can be too clean, perfect and within the rules. Here are six techniques where we went extreme, dirty or just plain wrong, and it turned out to be, well, right!

Taking an experimental approach to arrangement

AMOTIK • Berlin-based producer Anil Chawla on how he wrings bass and percussion from his TR-09 and his less-is-more approach to arrangement

HAUSCHKA • Oscar-winning composer and producer Volker Bertelmann on prepared piano, the need for optimism and finding room to experiment

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY • Instrumental rock quartet’s Chris Hrasky tells Danny Turner why Explosions in the Sky’s eighth album, End, isn’t a goodbye

FOREST SWORDS • Matthew Barnes’ third Forest Swords album delves further into his stark, sumptuous and singularly unique sound world. Danny Turner finds out more

Realistic instrument programming • Learn how to capture and program the nuances and subtleties behind real instruments – all with the right sort of fakery in your DAW

Philip Glass • Avant-garde, classical, neither? We celebrate an artist who belongs to all worlds and none

Roland Gaia 2 £789 • Roland’s ‘hands-on’ virtual analogue returns with some fresh tricks up its sleeve. But, Si Truss asks, does it still have one foot stuck in the past?

Akai Pro APC64 £339 • Not so much a tweak as a full upgrade, the Akai APC64 acquires new abilities – and a new audience?

GS Music e7 $1,600 plus import tax • This first poly from Argentina already sounds like a classic but has one or two tricks up its sleeve, says Andy Jones

Cableguys FilterShaper XL €49 • The modulation-obsessed developer turns its attention back to its classic filter plugin. Si Truss gets moving…

the t.bone RM 700 £95 • Ribbon mics make a great addition to your mic cupboard. Jon Musgrave plugs up this affordable option

OXI Instruments Coral £422 • A polyphonic, multi-timbral synth in only 14HP! Simon Arblaster sees how deep this spin on a modern classic goes

SOUNDS & SAMPLES

UNDERSTANDING: Mics • What’s the difference...