Review: Universal Audio Luna

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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 […]

MIDI Scripting, Advanced Visualiser and more in FL Studio’s 20.7 update

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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 […]

Review: Apple Logic Pro X 10.5 Update

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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 […]

Review: Apple Logic Pro X 10.5 Update

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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 […]

Turn unused track ideas into inspiring new instruments

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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 […]