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.

Future Music

In the atmosphere

ACCESSING YOUR BONUS DIGITAL CONTENT • Head to the link above to grab the latest samples and downloads!

IN THE ARCHIVE – UPDATED! • FM’s Sample Archive gives you over 18GB of royalty-free sounds.

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UDO’s Super 8 is like a slimmed-down, cheaper Super Gemini • Super 8 drops the Gemini’s ribbon controller, but still offers an impressive 16 voices of polyphony and the same unique architecture

UA’s new plugin packs three classics into a single channel strip

Juicy Loops puts FL Studio’s beloved sequencer into Ableton Live

AberrantDSP’s Lair might be the weirdest reverb plugin we've ever seen

Melbourne Instruments Delia promises “soft synth flexibility with the tactile experience of a classic hardware synth”

iZotope’s RX 11: power and spectral healing for post production and more

MiniBrute V: the analogue monosynth gets extra voices, effects and more

Pitch and time MIDI tools in Ableton Live 12 • Bring your patterns to life with Live’s easy-to-use tools

TALKINGSHOP Elsa Hewitt • The London producer with an ear for the hypnotic talks loop jams, Live and flow states

ELSA’S TOP TIPS

Nightmares On Wax Carboot Soul • Warp, 1999

Track by track with George Evelyn

In the studio with Nightmares On Wax

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AMBIENT SYNTHESIS • Whether you’re creating a majestic work of meditative ambience or an atmospheric pad for the breakdown of your club banger, we’re here to teach all you need to know

Synthesising a hybrid ambient pad

CREATING A GLITCHY GRANULAR SYNTH EFFECT • Granular synths can create patches that are both rhythmically and harmonically unpredictable – perfect for ambient

Creating ambient drones

Quick drone creation tips • Drones underpin and set the tone of your track but how do you make them interesting and keep them evolving?

FURTHER EXPERIMENTS IN AMBIENT SOUND DESIGN

Making evolving modular patches

Laying a foundation • Create a brooding underlying drone as a bed for your ambient textures

PATCH A GENERATIVE AMBIENT PIECE • Ditch the MIDI keyboard or sequencer and go for a generative approach to melodic lines for your next ambient masterpiece

MOBY • Moby tells Danny Turner how his 22nd album is inspired by the diversity of the late ’70s/early ’80s electronic dance scene

IN THE STUDIO Tourist • As he releases his fifth album Memory Morning, we visit the UK producer in his home garden studio

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Creative MIDI Tools in your DAW • Let’s explore the best of today’s DAW functionality when it comes to handling notes and programming

Logic Pro 11’s new Internal MIDI Routing

MACHINEDRUM • Machinedrum’s Travis Stewart tells Danny Turner how a trip to Joshua Tree with a case full of old hard drives inspired his 11th album, 3FOR82

EMT 140 Plate Reverb • In the 1960s and 1970s, you needed a cumbersome metal plate strapped to some springs to create quality reverb, but it was so...