SoS UK/USA September 2024

English | 156 pages | True PDF | 187 MB

REVIEWS: Moog Muse [front cover] • Zoom H4essential • Korg MPS-10 Sample Pad • Lauten Audio LS-408 & LS-508 • Waldorf Iridium Core • Icon Pro Audio/ Harrison 32Ci • Grace Design Rex & Roxi • Synchro Arts VocAlign Pro 6 • Universal Audio LA-6176 plug-in • SPL Phonitor 3 • Toontrack The Jazz Sessions SDX • Origin Effects Cali76 FET & Cali76 Bass • Malcolm Toft Equate • IK Multimedia Tonex One • Drawmer 1972 • SPOTLIGHT:  Kick Drum Microphones • Eurorack Modules • New sample libraries — and much more!

Electronic Sound Issue 120

English | 100 pages | PDF | 61 MB

Electronic Sound’s final cover star of 2024 is the legendary Jean-Michel Jarre and we are bundling the issue with a limited edition green vinyl seven-inch featuring live versions of ‘Oxygène 4’ and ‘Équinoxe 7’, two of the synth superstar’s biggest and best-known tracks. Jean-Michel Jarre’s impact on electronic music during the last 50 years is huge, not least because of his thrilling live performances. His concerts are the focus of our cover story, with Jarre detailing how his shows have evolved over the decades and guiding us through some of the events he’s most famous for. His picks include Paris, Beijing and Houston, plus his Docklands sets in London in 1988. Expect highly entertaining tales of epic staging and equally epic rainfall, as well as several billion lasers. Remarkably, at the age of 76, there’s no sign of Jarre starting to slow down yet, with more live extravaganzas scheduled for 2025. All power to his VCS 3, we say.

RRS Plugins Bundle 2024.11 WiN

Team R2R | 25 November 2024 | 287.61 MB

…: AAX, VSTi, VST2, VST3, x64 :…

RRS AQ550 | RRS AQ550b | RRS AQ560 | RRS Bass Enhancer | RRS BQ-A | RRS Comp 609 | RRS EQ3 | RRS EQP-1A | RRS Exciter | RRS Fuse Stereo Image | RRS SA360 | RRS uniQ | RRS Ivoks | RRS EQ302 | RRS EQ560 FREE | RRS HLF-3C | RRS SA60

Beat Issue 227 December 2024

PDF | 13.11.2024 | ENG:59.56 MB | GER:22.92 MB

(English and German Edition)

55 Synth Plugins reviewed – Which ones do you really need? Synths are simply indispensable! With the flood of new releases, however, it can be difficult to keep track and find the perfect plug-in for your sound. But don‘t worry, we‘ll do the work for you! On 22 pages, we evaluate the latest instruments, show them in use case workshops and provide audio demos so that you know exactly which synth is right for you. Of course, there are evergreens and freeware gems that no setup should be without. And as a bonus, there are over 10,000 presets to download so you can get started right away!

ADSP Everything Bundle macOS

TEAM HCiSO | 18 November 2024 | 4.54 GB

Aurora DSP is a team of sound engineers, producers and developers. With over 10 years of experience in sound engineering, Aurora DSP knows that ultimately it’s the sound that counts.

Electronic Sound 119

English | 100 pages | PDF | 43 MB

This is something special. With an exciting new boxset in the shops any day now, the latest Electronic Sound cover stars are the magnificent Throbbing Gristle and we’re bundling the issue with a limited edition red vinyl seven-inch featuring two previously unreleased TG tracks, including one of the last two recordings the industrial pioneers ever made. We’re looking back over the story of Throbbing Gristle this issue, interviewing the surviving members of the band and others associated with TG. Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson ripped up all the rules, both sonically and visually, both as a live act and a recording unit. They are widely recognised as the prime movers of industrial music, but their influence and impact stretches way beyond any particular genre. Their early gigs attracted everybody from acid-fried hippies and spotty anarcho-punks to oddball alt-funkateers and hot-wired electronics freaks. There has never been another group even remotely like Throbbing Gristle.

Electronic Sound 114 June 2024

English | 100 pages | PDF | 62.5 MB

We’re investigating the visual art of John Foxx in this month’s Electronic Sound. While he is best known as the frontman of Ultravox and a revered solo musician in his own right, Foxx is also a highly distinctive visual artist. He has worked in photography, collage, graphic art and other media since the mid-1970s, and his extraordinary portfolio is detailed in a forthcoming book called ‘Electricity And Ghosts’. We’ve invited him to talk about some of his favourite pieces from the book, and the result is a fascinating glimpse into his artistic approach and the aesthetic principles he applies to both his imagery and his records. You could describe it as a sort of synthesis of John Foxx. We have a bumper selection of other great interviews elsewhere in this issue too, including Jeff Mills, John Grant, Suzanne Ciani, Orbital, Wolfgang Tillmans, Low End Activist, Keeley Forsyth and Chanel Beads. We also have a splendid new regular column called “The Best Of…”, which we think you’re going to really love. Our first volunteer is μ-Ziq man and Planet Mu label boss Mike Paradinas, who speaks about peaches, thigh-high socks and geek pies. As you do.