Music Tech Magazine - Issue 88

Get inside your productions with our in-depth feature on audio analysis, and use your voice in more creative ways with Liam O'Mullane's guide to vocal manipulation. Plus: Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Reason 4 and Cubase 5 Workshops.

Publish date: 16 June 2010

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In the issue…

Features
Pro Audio Analysis
Understanding the tools and techniques for analysing audio can give you a professional insight into what’s really going on inside your mixes. Hollin Jones turns detective…

Creative Vocal Manipulation
For some people, the voice is a sacred and pure instrument – but not for Liam O’Mullane, who shows you how to morph beyond that to create synthetic and unnatural tones.

Ten Minute Masters
Exporting and importing audio
Sometimes it can be necessary to move your projects from one platform to another. Grant Bridgeman helps to ensure your work doesn’t get lost in translation.

Subtractive synthesis
The principles of subtractive synthesis have underpinned sound creation for more than 50 years. Mark Cousins takes a closer look at how it works.

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This Month’s Workshops
Logic Pro 9
Automation can unlock the true potential of a mix, making your music far more dynamic and interesting to the ear. Mark Cousins takes control.
Cubase 5
The ability to work with surround sound is an essential string to every contemporary producer’s bow. Tim Hallas introduces Cubase’s surround sound capabilities.
Ableton Live 8
You can assign any fader, dial or button to most musical parameters in Live. Liam O’Mullane explains how they work and how to make them work for you.
Reason 4
Plug-in instruments are all well and good, but wouldn’t it be great to be able to create your own? Luckily, in Reason you can… Hollin Jones explains.

Reviews
Another selection of hardware and software is put through its paces in this issue, including Line 6’s POD Farm 2, VSL’s Vienna Choir, Scan PowerDAW, Tascam DP-008, JZ V47 & V67, Native Instruments' Paranormal Spectrums the Mackie Onyx 1640i and more.

ON THE DVD

Prime Loops Beat Feast
Over the last 18 months Prime Loops has grown into one of the UK’s premier producers of top-notch samples. To help celebrate this success, here’s a frankly superb collection of cutting-edge beats, synths, loops and FX taken from 45 of their top products. Whether you’re writing dubstep, breaks, house, electro, hip hop, D&B, R&B or electronica, you’ll find pro-sounding loops to drop straight into your productions.

LoopTV
LoopTV’s Logic Pro tutorials crank things up a notch with 40 minutes of producer tips and tricks presented by product specialist Rob Jones. Plus: an exclusive producer interview with The Freemasons’ James Wiltshire.

Processed Guitars
To follow on from last month’s rock, jazz and blues pack, allow us to present an MTM-exclusive collection of weird and wonderful effected guitar sounds, complete with 23 instruments mapped out in Kontakt.

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