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Price Free to UA Apollo/Arrow Users Contact Universal Audio The staggering surprise reveal of Universal Audio’s new DAW-in-all-but-name Luna was one of the biggest talking points of this year’s NAMM. It appeared that with this ‘recording system’, the company had taken everything it had learnt from its world-beating software emulations, DSP-powered low-latency interfacing, and ever-improving […]
Image-Line has released the 20.7 update to Fruity Loops Studio – bringing native support for external MIDI controllers; and introducing the Advanced Visualiser, a baked-in video editor for creating web-ready music videos. Alongside this, Image-Line has launched a Visualiser Contest with a prize of $5,000 in IL Virtual Cash. The inclusion of MIDI Scripting now […]
Price £199 (free update for existing users) Contact Apple Major updates to the DAW old guard of Logic Pro X, Pro Tools and Cubase are always exciting – if only to see how applications whose roots stretch back to the 1990s can be refreshed and refit for the modern age. In the case of Logic Pro […]
Price £199 (free update for existing users) Contact Apple Major updates to the DAW old guard of Logic Pro X, Pro Tools and Cubase are always exciting – if only to see how applications whose roots stretch back to the 1990s can be refreshed and refit for the modern age. In the case of Logic Pro […]
In this Weekend Workshop, we’ll demonstrate a handy and surprisingly fun technique in which we load entire tracks into a sampler and turn them into wild, almost random ‘instruments’ which we can then play and program to create new track ideas. The great thing about this process is that it requires very little thought. It’s […]
We had a vague glimpse at what Apple might have been planning with Logic Pro X after an apparent image leak on its site. But today, the California-based tech giant confirmed suspicions with the biggest update to Logic Pro since the release of version X. The Logic Pro X 10.5 update does indeed boast new […]
Price £40 Contact Faderpro This engaging new course from FaderPro goes behind the scenes with producer Saytek to see how he builds his acclaimed improvised house and techno sets using Ableton Live and a host of hardware. The early chapters begin with an overview of the equipment and an in-depth explanation of the signal flow […]
If you’re keen to try out modular audio processing but don’t have the budget for a massive rack of hardware, don’t fret: Native Instruments’ free Reaktor 6 Player comes with Blocks Base, a set of virtual modules that you can use to create your own synths and audio effects. In this Weekend Workshop, we’ll use […]
In this Weekend Workshop, we won’t be making a single sound in our DAWs, but the work we do might well take your productivity to new heights. Making DAW templates might just be the least sexy part of producing music, but there’s a great logic to getting one made this weekend. When you’re staring down […]
With vast collections of increasingly complicated synth VSTs on your computer, creativity can take a hit as you suffer choice paralysis: not being able to decide on which tool to use for the job as there simply so many great synths out there. If you do determine which tool to use, you can spend hours […]