Music Tech Magazine - Issue 51

How to make the most out of your plug-ins, writing music for picture, and keeping your cables in tip-top condition. Cubase 4, Sonar 6, Logic Pro 7 and Reason 3.0 Workshops. All the latest news and product reviews.

Publish date: 16 May 2007

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In the issue…

Plug-in Power
Amassing a vast collection of plug-ins won’t necessarily pave the way for ensuring your music stands out from the crowd or that you’ll become a better producer or engineer. Learning how to make the most of the ones you already have, however, will. Mark Cousins explains.

Media Music
Composing music-to-picture is an increasingly popular way to earn money from your music and it’s open to all producers. We explain how it’s done.

Cable Maintenance
Cable failure and poor connections can make life in the studio very frustrating, but maintaining and repairing them is relatively easy.

Ten Minute Masters
Noise Reduction Systems: Cleaning up a noisy recording is now a task that can be easily accomplished with just the right bits of software and a good ear. Grant Bridgeman investigates the art of digital noise reduction.
EQ Curves: If you know how to interpret the curve of an equalizer, you’ll have a better grasp of its musicality and usefulness in music production.

This Month’s Workshops
Cubase 4
You don’t need to spend a fortune to use lots of synths in Cubase – in fact, it doesn’t have to cost you a penny… Hollin Jones shows you how to make music on a budget.
Sonar 6
Sonar 6 boasts more powerful MIDI functionality than any previous incarnation. Brian Smithers shows you how to maximise its talents.
Logic Pro 7
Logic Pro’s EVD6 faithfully re-creates the sound of the Hohner Clavinet, but how do you go about producing a suitably vintage performance? Mark Cousins demonstrates how to get funky…
Reason 3.0
Achieving a lo-fi, vintage sound in Reason is easy if you know the tricks of the trade. We show you how.

Reviews
Among the latest hardware and software releases we check out this month are the much-anticipated Digidesign 003 Factory, Yamaha’s MM6, Arturia’s Jupiter-8V, the Alesis io|26, Focusrite Saffire Pro 10 I/O and Sonnox Oxford Dynamics.

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ON THE DVD

Dynamic Pads & Atmospheres

Whether you’re creating brooding, evocative soundscapes or need to inject a touch of ambience into your tracks that only electronic instruments can achieve, this month’s royalty-free and exclusive collection of pads and sweeps demonstrates the kind of versatility that has made the synth a mainstay of contemporary composers of all genres of music. Supplied in .WAV, NN-XT and Kontakt formats.

Electro Essentials
Gritty grooves are a staple of every electronica composer’s arsenal of sounds, and this superb collection of cutting-edge beats, bass, synth, guitar and FX loops will go a long way to providing everything you need to create your own pumping electronica tracks. Augmenting these essential sounds are a variety of percussion loops, vocal manipulations and scratches that will bring an authentic dirty vibe to your productions.

Dance Fundamentals
Comprising loops and hits of individual kit pieces alongside layered synth patterns and patches for Rob Papen’s Blue, this collection of royalty-free and exclusive sounds provides all the building blocks for creating up-tempo dance and trance tracks. The layered loops in particular offer considerable scope for injecting movement into your compositions.

All the latest demos…
Arturia Jupiter-8V, Image-Line Juice Pack, SensoMusic UsinePro, AtomSplitter Audio Distroyr and more…

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