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.

Sound foundations

FutureMusic

Waldorf Quantum is back and bigger than ever • MK2 adds polyphonic aftertouch and an increased voice count

The Rhodes V8: an emulation of the MK8 electric piano

Teenage's latest update turns the OP-1 Field into a vocoder

UA’s Sphere DLX and LX can emulate classic mics

Apple release updated Mac mini and MacBook Pro models

Arturia are now letting anyone buy the MiniFreak V soft synth

Serato’s Studio DAW now has builtin stem separation

Generate new musical ideas in Ableton Live

Om Unit Threads

Track by track with Om Unit

15 SYNTH PATCHES • From classic bass sounds to evolving pads, quick drums and FX, we’ll show you how to rustle up these go-to patches from scratch

Reese bass

Analogue-style kick

Synth sweep FX • We’ve all heard white noise sweeps with their cutoff frequencies steadily climbing. Through the following steps, we’ll look at a more original take

Acid bassline

Minimoog-style bass

House organ

SYNTH STRINGS

SYNTH CHOIR

Rave chord stab

Ambient pad

5 PATCHES YOU NEED TO KNOW

NEIL COWLEY

Spectral effects

Resonance suppression with Mastering The Mix Reso

Splitting sounds by harmonics and transients in Bitwig Studio 4.4

Bitwig’s Spectral Suite

New sonic possibilities with Bitwig’s Loud Split processor

Spectral compression with Sonible smart:comp 2

Delay times across the spectrum with MSpectralDelay

THREE OF THE BEST

Spectral smoothing and soothing

Spectral smoothing with Baby Audio Smooth Operator

LISEL • Classical opera singer by day, electronic artist by night, Eliza Bagg is dissolving boundaries, as Matt Mullen discovers

Korg Drumlogue • Leo Maymind gives us a deeper insight into how to get the most out of this latest, percussive addition to the much loved range

EXPLORING DRUMLOGUE’S JAM-PACKED FEATURE SET

Programming a polymetric rhythm on the Drumlogue

STEP PROBABILITY WORKFLOW, NOW ON THE DRUMLOGUE!

GOING DEEPER WITH THE DRUMLOGUE

Going further with motion sequencing to program a melodic bassline

SNOW GHOSTS • Forged in a Wiltshire castle, Snow Ghosts’ fifth album, The Fell, explores the region’s dark yet beautiful folklore. Danny Turner finds out more

Cherry Audio Synth Stack 3 $299

Casper Bastl Softpop SPII £445

Apogee Boom £329 • Boasting impressive components, the Boom doesn’t come cheap. Is it worth it? Simon Fellows tests it out

Roli Seaboard Rise 2 £1,099

Elk Live £300

Neat Worker Bee II £100

Universal Audio Volt 4 £225

Luftrum – Lunaris 2 $179

Audiotent – Solar $56

Sample Magic – Beat Alchemy From $7.99/month

Ghost Syndicate – BLU: Liquid Drum & Bass £29.95

Niche Audio – Loungin House From £14.95

Splice Originals – Dimensions In Soul From $7.99/month

Lese Eigen

UNCHARTED TERRITORY

Arturia Pigments €199 • Now at version 4, Arturia’s ‘polychrome’ synth has pitched itself as both the most flexible and approachable ‘power’ plugin around. Si Truss asks...