The specialist magazine for music, production and DJ-ing: BEAT combines competent hardware and software tests with committed reviews as well as reports and interviews from music circles and the music business.
Welcome to the Music Producer’s Guide to Synthesisers, the complete guide to the exciting world of softsynths, brought to you by the experts at Computer Music magazine. We look at three such iconic synths – the Minimoog, ARP Odyssey and Roland SH-101 – and their software equivalents in our main feature on page 14. We also look at some of the ‘less classic’ hardware synths of days gone by (on page 92), and show you how to emulate these more curious synths in software.
cm/ Interview: DEADMAU5: The outspoken and hugely successful dance music producer has quite a few opinions on music software development and isn’t afraid to hold back here… PRODUCTION MASTERCLASS Ashley Thorpe reveals how to sort out phase issues. METERING AND VISUAL TOOLS All of the different visual displays on your software explained
CREATE A PRO SOUND DELAY TACTICS The best (and cheapest) plugins plus step-by-step delay workshop CM/interview CHICANE Nick Bracegirdle – aka Chicane – made his name in the ’90s with songs like Offshore, Sunstroke and Saltwater. After experimenting with all sorts of different genres, his new album returns to the sound that characterised the Balearic/trance heyday 15 Questions with… THE MAGHREBAN The latest album from Ayman Rostom – aka The Maghreban, formerly known as Doctor Zygote – mixes Middle Eastern, jazz and techno with, well, everything else! Back To Basics THE PRO GUIDE: HEADROOM & LEVELS We go back to basics to explore gainstaging and levelling up (or not!)
INTERVIEW: DC GORE DC Gore is reinventing the sounds – and synths – of the 80s in a completely new and unique way and with a very 2022 twist… PRODUCTION MASTERCLASS: Ashley Thorpe gets his beats on in Drummer.
Blimey. We like to think we’ve had some pretty striking covers over the years, but the photo of Röyksopp on the front of this month’s Electronic Sound really is something else. We have a weighty interview with the unorthodox Norwegian group inside the magazine, plus loads more to entertain you. Röyksopp’s massively popular 2001 debut album, ‘Melody AM’, made the pair the first new electronic superstars of the 21st century. Two decades down the line, Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland are bossing 2022 with the release of two terrific albums in the space of only four months. ‘Profound Mysteries’ and ‘Profound Mysteries II’ embrace an array of electronic styles – slinky pop songs, funky bangers, wistful moments and much more – but the albums are actually part of a wider art project that also involves 20 short films and 20 specially created digital artefacts, one for each of the 20 tracks. A lot of it is mighty strange stuff and it all adds up to a thrilling and truly unique audio-visual trip.
REVIEWS: Neumann M49V mic • ASM Hydrasynth Explorer & Deluxe synths • Zoom F3 field recorder/interface • Arturia V Collection 9 • Cranborne Audio CAST Intro Bundle • Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field • Universal Audio Volt 476P audio interface • Warm Audio WA-47F mic • Wes Audio Rhea stereo compressor • Cleer Audio Next headphones • Hohm HR01 ribbon mic • Blackstar Amped 1 pedal • Doepfer A-126-2 frequency shifter • Orchestral Tools Berlin Con Sordino Strings • Sound Particles Density plug-in • Strymon Zelzah mod pedal • Latest sample libraries — and lots more!
