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

Thinking outside the box

Apple releases Logic Pro for iPad

Super Gemini is a multitimbral, binaural beast

Reason’s Objekt promises a new world of sounds

Roland’s S-1 Tweak: like a polyphonic SH-101

Erica Synths’ Steampipe is a physical modelling polysynth

PWM’s Mantis: a Wasp-style synth with OSCar-like filter

Make Noise's Spectraphon offers power and complexity

Arturia’s MicroFreak synth gets a Stellar update

Oberheim’s OB-X8 desktop module is smaller and cheaper

Elektron turns up the Heat with a new +FX model

AJH Synth’s MiniMod Keyz looks like a Minimoog for the Eurorack generation

The microKorg anniversary model is Crystal clear

Fila Brazillia Maim That Tune

Track by track with Steve Cobby and David ‘Man’ McSherry

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Overmono Good Lies

LOSE THE LAPTOP • Computers are brilliant creative tools, but there can be real freedom found in stepping away from the screen. This issue, let’s explore the hows and whys of creating a production setup that puts less emphasis on a traditional DAW…

Going DAW-less: 4 approaches • Choosing to ditch the laptop is a big decision, but even once you’ve committed, there’s another choice to make: how? There’s no single set laptop alternative for making electronic music. There are a variety of gear options out there that can, to varying degrees, replace the functionality of a DAW. Let’s survey a few of the best options, each of which could offer a route into a new, self-contained setup, or be used as part of a mix ‘n’ match approach

9 quick tips for hardware creativity • Stepping away from a DAW screen can mean significantly shaking up your workflow. Whether you’re trying to minimise your DAW’s role or ditching it completely, you can maximise your creativity with these tips and ideas…

MATHEW HERBERT • Matthew Herbert chats to Danny Turner about his extraordinary new album, The Horse, which uses skeletal bones as source material

Nabihah Iqbal • The Ninja Tune artist on how a run of setbacks helped her shake up her workflow for the creation of excellent new album Dreamer

What was the process behind writing and recording the tracks on Dreamer?

Modulation effects • Warble your way to smooth signals and push things into experimental territory with our guide to phasers, chorus and flangers

Deeper parameters in modulation effects

All-in-one plugin solutions

BRIGHT & FINDLAY • Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay teams up with James Alexander Bright to create a love letter to ’70s rock. Danny Turner finds out more

Roland SH-4d • Leo Maymind digs into a part-melodic, part-rhythmic desktop synth that defies categorisation

The SH-4d’s sequencer, one pattern at a time • There’s a lot to love about the sequencer within the alreadypowerful SH-4d

MIXING THINGS UP A BIT

4 QUICK TIPS FOR MORE 4D FUN

Recording knob motion • The SH-4d can record automation by capturing knob movements and then playing them back with your pattern. Here’s how...

BRAIDS • Montreal art-rockers Braids reach a pinnacle with fifth album, Euphoric...