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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Roland’s SP-404 MKII now lets you jam with full DAW projects • The cult-classic sampler now lets you work with longer audio files

Cherry Audio unveil supercharged Jupiter

Korg’s full-size ARP Odyssey is back, but this time you’ll have to build it yourself

Minimal Audio release Cluster

Reliq is a “hybrid control surface” that can route and mix audio

Modalics EON-Arp is a free plugin for creating wild melody and chord patterns

Chase Bliss put us in a good MOOD

Chompi is a super-cute, Casio SK-1-like sampler

Yamaha unveil new CK stage keyboards

Cameo Blush • The London-based producer talks saxophone, vocal sampling and his latest EP

DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues • Mule Musiq, 2009

Holly Waxwing, The New Pastoral

Khotin, Release Spirit

Jim Legxacy, Old Place

ON OUR PLAYLIST

The Great Polysynth Shootout • We pit the young guns versus the vintage veterans, analogue versus digital, the weird versus the straight-laced in our quest to find the best contemporary polysynth

Bells and whistles • There’s more to the synths on test than just their sound engines. Let’s see how they compare...

SURGEON • Surgeon’s new album sees techno mainstay Anthony Child replicating his live setup in a studio environment. Danny Turner chatted to him to find out more…

Skepsis • We meet up with the producer in his Liverpool studio to discover how he spans the realms of bassline and drum & bass

Creating Freak’s layered bassline • Recreate the distinctive bass drop from Skepsis’ collaboration with TS7

Arturia Pigments 4 • Leo Maymind delves deep into the expansive world of Arturia’s latest Pigments upgrade

Utilising the Utility Engine

Getting granular with Pigments V4 • With its Granular Engine, Arturia up the ante when it comes to sample manipulation. Here’s how to make the most of it...

Exploring the deep, built-in sequencer within Pigments • Hiding behind the Seq tab in the main UI is a very programmable sequencer and arpeggiator

CHANNEL TRES • One of dance music’s most distinctive new voices, Danny Turner chats to Channel Tres about the origins of his ‘Compton house’ sound

LUCINDA CHUA • The London-based composer and producer’s debut solo album is an ambitious and personal work of ambient pop, as Matt Mullen discovers

J Dilla • A producer whose name has gone down in hip-hop lore and beyond, J Dilla redefined rhythm as we know it

Sequential Trigon-6 £3,399 • Andy Jones asks if the final Dave Smith-designed synth could also be the Memorymoog you’ve been waiting for

Apple Mac mini M2 from £649 • Apple’s compact desktop has received an M2 upgrade. Jon Musgrave gets plugged up

Noise Engineering Quantus Trajecta £269

Audient EVO SP8 £399 • Need more analogue inputs or outputs for an ADAT-equipped interface? This unit could be ideal, says Jon Musgrave

Donner DMK-25 Pro £125 • Small but mighty, this controller delivers a ton of functionality and value. Matt Mullen takes the DMK-25 for...