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

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DIGITAL • ACCESSING YOUR BONUS DIGITAL CONTENT

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

EXCLUSIVE SAMPLE PACKS

loopmosters • BONUS SAMPLES DOWNLOAD AT MUSICRADAR.COM/HOW-TO/FUTURE-MUSIC-413-DOWNLOADS

Find Your Perfect Tone • Every issue, Guitarist brings you the best gear, features, lessons and interviews to fuel your passion for guitar

Muse is Moog’s new flagship poly • The eight-voice analogue synth has a bi-timbral sound engine, vintage-inspired delay and creative sequencer

Akai Pro announces huge update to its MPC software

Korg Collection 5 adds fresh synths, organs and pianos

Can Traktor Pro 4 put Native Instruments back at the top of the DJ software game?

Minimal Audio’s Ripple Phaser promises to inject movement and character

Audacity gets a “visual refresh”, new master channel and compressor and limiter effects

Cristian Vogel’s ShifterMesh is the trippiest effects plugin we’ve tried all year

Roland updates two of its most popular stage pianos

Teenage Engineering’s EP-1320: a medieval-themed sampler. Really

RICHIE CULVER • The innovative multidisciplinary artist talks field recording, looping and Tracy Chapman

DJ Nu-Mark, Broken Sunlight Hot Plate, 2012 • Track by track with the DJ Nu-Mark

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Reviews

ELEVATE YOUR SOUND • Adventurous effects processing can be what helps define your unique sound and makes your tracks stand out from the crowd. This issue, we’re here to get those sound design ideas flowing…

5 quick creative sound design tips • Before we dive into specific techniques and effects, let’s look at some general principles – here are a few ideas and approaches to help you make more interesting and unique sounds

Next-level effect racks in Ableton Live

3 creative Live Effect Racks

4 under-rated Live effects

5 (budget) hardware effects tips

Creative effects with Logic Pro’s stock plugins

Bitcrusher

Get creative with Step FX and Phat FX • These are Logic Pro’s secret weapons when it comes to creating interesting effects

Pushed to the extreme: vintage and modern effects • How misusing vintage outboard gear changed the world of recorded music, and how software effects will do the same for its future

Creating a new genre with Baby Audio’s Humanoid

The Joe Meek effect

Joe Meek’s hard compression (and his EQ settings!)

The ultimate gear misusers

Experiment with Minimal Audio’s Ripple Phaser

Dub effects in the Roland Space Echo • Let’s put our theory of contrary gear use to the test

Modular manipulation: how to transform sounds with a Eurorack effects rig

Back to basics • Create a simple but effective minimalist processing patch

Impact modulations • Let’s explore how we can use the dynamics of an audio signal to create modulations in a patch

WHY? • Tapping ever deeper into his neurosis, Yoni Wolf chats to Danny Turner about his eighth WHY? album The Well I Fell Into

A GUY CALLED GERALD • The acid...