Music Tech Magazine - Issue 90

Improve the sound in your studio and make better tracks. Plus: how to make beats in Reason, and drum synthesis explored. Logic Pro 9, Reason 4, Cubase 5 & Pro Tools 8 Workshops.

Publish date: 19 August 2010

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In the issue…

Features
Monitors & Acoustics
If you want to make the best-sounding tracks, a good monitoring environment is crucial. Huw Price recommends a holistic approach to monitor selection and room treatment.

How to Make Beats in Reason
Reason is one of the best tools around for making all kinds of beats for all kinds of music. Hollin Jones feels the rhythm.

Creative Drum Synthesis
Creating your own programmed drum sounds from scratch can really help your productions stand out. Liam O’Mullane shows you how to get started.

Ten Minute Masters
Control Surfaces
Taking physical control of your DAW can make mixing and editing a much quicker and more intuitive process. Grant Bridgeman gets tactile.

Practical Digital Audio
The quality of a recording made in the digital domain is influenced by many factors, from sampling frequencies to word clock jitter. Mark Cousins explains the basics.

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This Month’s Workshops
Logic Pro 9
Logic’s Sculpture is an intriguing physical modelling synthesizer with a wealth of unusual tricks up its sleeve. Mark Cousins explores its darkest secret…
Cubase 5
The humble guitar is one of the cornerstones of modern music, cropping up in countless styles of music. Tim Hallas explains how best to capture it in Cubase 5.
Reason 4
Making electronic loops and sequences is a big part of what many Reason users do – and the Matrix is perfect for the job. Hollin Jones digs in.
Pro Tools 8
Pro Tools LE and M-Powered projects can experience problems caused by latency, but, as Mike Hillier explains, there are ways around the various difficulties…

Reviews
Another selection of hardware and software is put through its paces, including the Mopho Keyboard, Lexicon LXP Native Reverb, Allen & Heath Zed 10FX, Lauten Clarion, NI Session Strings, Steinberg HALion Sonic and more.

ON THE DVD

Evolving Pads
Our main pack this month contains a huge collection of 36 different chords, ranging from simple major and minor shapes to more complex structures, all spread across five deep, evolving pad sounds.

Urban Beats
A massive 1.2GB collection of head-nodding hip hop, R&B and crunk grooves from hot new samples producers Fireloops.
www.fireloops.com

Ableton Live 8 videos
LoopTV offers up a pack of video goodies comprising three Live 8 tutorials on Drum Re-sequencing, Vocoders and the Clip Editor, plus an exclusive two-part producer interview with Beatport No 1 artist Deadmau5, filmed on his UK tour.
www.looptv.net

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