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Music Tech Magazine - Issue 30

The definitive review of Ableton Live 5, Kieren Hebden and psychedelic studios and more, this is going to be a busy issue.

Publish date: 17 August 2005

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Issue 30 of Music Tech Magazine is out now in newsagents throughout the UK

In the issue

Back in the 60s and 70s engineers and musicians were constantly pushing the boundaries of sound, developing techniques that required more than just a little skill and ingenuity, in this issue of MTM Huw Price takes a look at what engineers were doing in the Psychedelic Studio and how you can reproduce some of these techniques in your home or project studio.

Sonic experimentation is also a key factor in producing the sound of this month’s interviewee Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet. His new album Everything Ecstatic exchanges the folk instrumentation of 2003’s Rounds for a more lo-fi electronica sound, but like the 60s pioneers, Kieran gets the most from a limited setup.

Also in Issue 30 is the second part of Keith Gemmell’s Memorable Melodies feature, which this month explains how, with just a handful of musical techniques and devices, it’s possible to bring a tune to life. We also focus on Reason 3.0 to bring you Part 1of a feature on getting more from Reason. This time we have 80 tips and tricks for setting up and using the application.

Alongside all of this we’ve got Software Workshops covering the included plug-ins in Cubase SX/SL3, integrating Sonar 4 with Project5, and Logic Pro 7’s Guitar Amp Pro and two Ten Minute Masters which this month detail Audio Analysis and Mic Frequency Response.

Ableton’s new Live 5 audio production and performance suite is the talk of the town right now. We bring you the definitive review of the latest release of this revolutionary software as well as reviews of Focusrite’s Saffire interface with onboard DSP, Quested S8 monitors, FXpansion’s new Guru instrument, Roland’s V-Synth XT rack synth and many more.

On the DVD

Funky Summer
This month’s exclusive royalty-free samples collection contains five unique summer-themed constructions kit. Weighing it with around 1.2GB, the kits include old-school funk and R’n’B loops and should help keep the funky summer vibe flowing.

Issues 7-12 of MTM
Included on this month’s DVD are all the original PDF files from Issues 7-12. Whether you have the magazines or not, the PDF format enables you to browse, search and catalogue the articles.

Absynth 3 and Cubase SX/SL3 Video Tutorials
Give yourself a head start learning to use these two incredible software applications with the video tutorials on this month’s cover DVD. Native Instruments has given us a complete chapter from the new Absynth 3 Tutorial DVD covering patch creation, and Ask Video has given us a QuickTime video from the Cubase SX3 Tutorial DVD series. The Cubase SX/SL3 tutorial walks you through multi-track MIDI recording techniques, monitoring external MIDI devices through an audio channel in the mixer and ReWire devices.

Melodyne Uno Demo
Melodyne Uno provides pitch, time and formant manipulation in a way that no other software on the market enables you to do. Edit audio as if it were MIDI using Melodyne’s unique waveform score editor.

PhatSpace Demo
Camel Audio’s new plug-in bundle PhatSpace includes two effects, CamelPhat a multi-effect plug-in for colouring audio, and CamelSpace another multi-effect plug-in with creating dynamic gated rhythmic textures. Test out the effects with the demos provided on this month’s coverdisc.

 

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