Music Tech Magazine - Issue 52

How to make the most out of your compressor, using vintage keyboards in trip hop arrangements, and the low-down on pioneering electronic instruments. Cubase 4, Live 6, Pro Tools 7 and FL Studio 7 Workshops. All the latest news and product reviews.

Publish date: 20 June 2007

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In the issue…

Secrets of Compression
The compressor has become a studio stalwart, but all too often its true capabilities are overlooked. Mark Cousins is on the level…

Trip Hop Keyboards
Creating authentic trip hop productions almost always entails the use of a vintage keyboard or two. Hollin Jones details your options…

Pioneering Instruments
The electronic instruments we are so familiar with today evolved from the ideas of a few visionary pioneers. Mark Brend goes back in time…

Ten Minute Masters
Formants: Formant filters are incredibly powerful tools for shaping sounds, but just how do they work? Grant Bridgeman applies the human touch…
The Channel Strip: All mixers feature a channel strip, but how do their various controls integrate into the recording and mixing processes? Mark Cousins channels his energies…

This Month’s Workshops
Cubase 4
Cubase 4 can help you put the finishing touch to your mixes, lending a professional sound to your tracks. Hollin Jones shows you how…
Live 6
Live’s approach to warping audio can be exploited to achieve some interesting and creative variations on a basic groove. Jon Margulies shows you how it’s done…
Pro Tools 7
In addition to making a mix easier to manage, automation can be used to create some interesting effects. Mike Hillier rides the faders…
FL Studio 7
Audio recording is the cornerstone of practically all music production. Hollin Jones shows you how FL Studio tackles it with Edison.

Reviews
Among the latest hardware and software releases we check out this month are Yamaha’s Motif XS7, IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix, Steinberg’s Sequel, the CAD Trion 8000 and Dynaudio’s BM 6A mkII.

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ON THE DVD

DeepFlight

Recorded and processed exclusively for Music Tech Magazine, DeepFlight is a Reason ReFill that brings you the warm analogue sounds of Roland’s classic D-50 synth, a ground-breaking instrument that helped to define the sound of contemporary music in the late 80s. But DeepFlight pushes the possibilities of what the D-50 was capable of: individual samples can be layered without limit in Reason’s NN-XT sampler to create complex multi-samples that the original D-50 wasn’t capable of; what’s more, each multi-sample can be assigned its own envelope, LFO, filters and pan position.

Acoustic Drums
Minneapolis-based musician John Gump is back behind his kit once again, bringing you a top-class collection of loops and one-shots in .WAV format. Each kit element has been recorded without processing in an acoustically clean environment, so these samples are suitable for a diverse range of styles.

Spacehead Systems Jazz D’n’B
Created for DJs and songwriters and with ease of use as one of the primary objectives, these kick, hi-hat, snare, percussion and bass samples are all beat-matched and exactly four bars long, making them easy to use in either a sequencer or during live performance with virtual decks. Most of the samples are single-part, so they can be added to a mix without requiring additional EQ’ing or trimming.

All the latest demos…
Krakli Software Stringz2, Crysonic Spectra C1, Image-Line Deckadance, Wavelore American Zither and more…

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