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Instant Cinematic Sound Nostromos BE With 40 epic pads, gloomy drones and otherworldly textures, SampleScience Nostromos BE is the first choice for creating a cinematic ambience. This plug-in inspires with expressively playable instruments that show their strengths in film, game and trailer music, as well as in Ambient, Chillout, Downtempo & more. A cinematic experience! Download: see page 9 | Info: www.samplescience.info win | mac All serial numbers securely accessible: The Beat Serial Center To ensure that none of your serial numbers are lost in the future (for instance, in the event of a new installation, Outlook crash or disk crash), you can now conveniently manage them online. The advantages are obvious: The editorial team can send you targeted software updates, you have access to all serials at any time…

FAVOURITE INSTRUMENTS OF THE SYNTHFLUENCERS The channels of YouTubers like Cuckoo, Look Mum No Computer, Bobeats, Retrosound or Espen Kraft enjoy great popularity. For good reason, because the mixture of rousing musical performances, tutorials and wacky sound experiments has a high entertainment value. And it‘s not just since the Thomann‘s Synth Reactor event that it‘s often YouTubers, vloggers and „synthfluencers“ who are the first to try out new hardware instruments. Reason enough to ask some of the best-known YouTubers in this field about their favorite synthesizers. Why did you buy another synthesizer? You already have 7! A saying that I‘m sure many of us have heard in a similar form. Sure, many of us know the „Gear Acquisition Syndrome“ (G.A.S.), the urge to buy more and more synthesizers. No wonder,…

1 Let‘s go! As a base we take the standard preset of Sub-BoomBass-2, which can also be found in the „introduction“ soundbank. To create an FM sound, you must be able to modulate the frequency of another oscillator. Also, this modulating oscillator should preferably only modulate the other oscillator and not send its audio signal into the filter. To do this, click on the button of OSC1 that disables sending its signal into the filter. Next, select FM mode on OSC2. 2 Frequency modulation SubBoomBass-2 has many waveforms and even samples on board, but for FM synthesis we will stick with the sine waveform selected for both oscillators. At a later stage you can try other waveforms, but the results can be unpredictable. So using other waveforms is always trial & error.…

www.novationmusic.com More stereo! New spread modes, panning per voice, and panning in the mod matrix give additional control and allows for sound design in the stereo field. Now you can create bigger, wider, and more intricately textured soundscapes. Modulation and unpredictability Create deeper and more experimental sounds with new mod destina tions, noise as a mod source, and additional LFO 3 and 4 parameters. Animate Envelopes and Arpeggiator Chance open more creative perfor mance possibilities. New effects Including Chorus Modes, Flanger, and Phlanger add new tonalities. Addi tional effects modulation destinations open up more experimental sound design. A new Lo-Fi delay mode enables a more vintage style sound. WHAT BEAT MAG SAYS … …about Summit: The Summit‘s blend of digital waveforms and analogue post-processing creates a unique sonic character with…

Euroracks first binaural 3D-Mixer Neuzeit Instruments – Quasar Quasar is a module that lets you smoothly move sounds around your head, changing the angle, height and distance in real time. The audio signals can be flexibly routed to either or both positions via an internal matrix mixer, and the coordinates of the positions can be set manually or manipulated via CV. In this way, you can virtually place and move your input signals around your head at any angle, height, and distance – creating a 3D sound image through binaural audio processing. * integrated Reverb * flexible LFO’s * mapping CV on any parameter * move your sound in sync * save & recall presets www.neuzeit-instruments.com Hear & see the modules in action Granular stereo sampler and harmonizer Miso Modular –…

MPC X - The studio centerpiece The X is a standalone MPC featuring an adjustable 10.1” multitouch screen, 16 velocity-and pressure-sensitive RGB pads and 16 gigs of internal storage. The X also features two USB slots that can be used for MIDI controllers, audio interfaces & CV/Gate. Powering the X is the stellar MPC 2.1 Software, which runs natively in standalone mode. For expressive performances, there are 16 touch-sensitive 360-degree assignable pots — perfect for automating individual QLink parameters. MPC One - Compact standalone unit MPC One is a total music production solution to take yourideas from concept to finalizedradio-ready beats. Don’t let thesize fool you. The standalone One packs a lot of features andworkflow tools into ONE powerful punch. Beat programming, editing, mixing FX and instruments and so much…

Beat / Close Distance has a fresh sound, even though I can‘t quite put my finger on it yet. It feels like the typical elements are still there, but they‘ve been connected in a different way. FloFilz / I‘m glad you feel that way! Sculpting a new, but still familiar sound was my goal for the album. The title carries a dual meaning in this regard. It‘s both a reference to my collaborations during the pandemic and the synergy between the old and the new. Beat / Most of the guests are key players on the London jazz scene. How would you describe your time there?  FloFilz / The London scene is a giant melting pot filled with incredibly talented musicians. They mutually inspire each other and there‘s a great…

1 Studio strings Brave readers can switch off the ceiling lamp and light a few candles before starting this workshop. Goosebumps are guaranteed - I promise. First, load Logic‘s Studio Strings. Now select the String Ensemble and set Attack and Release to 30% each. This way you achieve a slow and dynamic buildup and decay of the sound. 2 One tone MIDI The sound we want to introduce you to in this workshop is a tonal, dissonant tone cluster sound. For best results, focus on single notes rather than chords or intervals. Next, use the Pencil Tool to draw five MIDI blocks from C1 to C5 and shorten them by the last three 16th notes. 3 The preparation With a song tempo of 80 BMP, you will achieve the best…

1 Load MIDI Clip To transfer a MIDI loop to a hardware drum machine, either create a MIDI clip and program a beat or load a MIDI clip from an appropriate library into an empty MIDI slot. If you don‘t have a MIDI loop library, just look under the keyword Free MIDI Loops on the internet, like groovemonkee.com [1]. 2 Listen to MIDI template If the MIDI clip is available as a Standard MIDI File (SMF), load any drum rack into the track to listen to the clip. This MIDI track will serve as a guide when you adjust the MIDI notes in the next step so that they correspond to the sounds of your drum machine, so that the kick also triggers the kick there, and so on. 3…

1 Arpeggiator pattern We create a simple arpeggiator pattern by hand in the MIDI editor. We use a Serum instance for this and create the pattern. We spread the notes of the arpeggiator over a scale of three octaves in total. This way we use a much wider frequency spectrum for the arpeggiator than if it only plays within one octave. 2 Serum settings In Serum we set osc 1 to basic shapes and turn the Wt Pos to 4 to get a square wave. We set the filter to Lowpass 12 and turn the Cutoff to 350Hz. We also assign env2 to the Cutoff. We set the Env2 amount to 25, attack to 0.5, Hold to 5, Decay to 15, Sustain to 0% and Release to 15ms. 3 Write…

e-phonic Invader 2 With Invader 2, users can expect an eight-note polyphonic synth with a classic structure. This plugin focuses on the essentials, yet is flexible enough to create a wide analog sound palette, from monophonic Basses to Leads and Arpeggios and Sequences to Pads and Effects sounds. The oscillators offer up the classic waveforms plus Sync Modes, supplemented by a Sub Oscillator and a Noise Generator, as well as a Unisono Stereo mode with up to eight voices for particularly fat sounds. By means of Pulse Width and Ring Modulation, floating and metallic sounds are also possible. With the filter, you can switch between two low-pass and one band-pass type, with the first mode integrating an additional high-pass filter. With high resonance values and the filter saturation, more aggressive…

Applied Acoustics Caffeine To expand the sound palette of AAS‘Lounge Lizard EP-4 electric piano, Daniel Stawczyk has created Caffeine, a sound pack filled with 105 presets. These presets are categorized into keys, leads, organs, pulses, sound effects, splits, synths and voices. They can be used either in Lounge Lizard EP-4 or in the AAS player. The Keys and Leads are quite odd and exquisite, but offer enough potential for inspiration. Positive sonic surprises are provided by the splits with plucks, and screeching synths, as well as high frequency SFX. Several of the sounds unfold their own character through the deliberately distorted sound - especially the voices. The effect intensity, however, is a bit too much in some presets. Verdict The potential of Caffeine extends far beyond e-piano sounds. From heavily…

SubBoomBass-2 features two oscillators with 128 waveforms, including the familiar virtual-analog and spectral waveforms as well as samples of acoustic and electric basses, percussion instruments and tuned drums. Physical modeling can be used to create extremely dynamic playable metal sounds or sounds that emulate the tonal behavior of stringed instruments. Oscillator 2 can be coaxed into ring, frequency and filter modulation. No less flexible is the filter section with two modules and a total of 20 filter types. Impressive sound progressions are no problem thanks to the XY pad and the lush modulation section. What would a Rob Papen synth be without great sounding effects? Thanks to the flexible two effect units with a total of 29 types, the sounds can be impressively refined or completely put through the mangle.…

WWW.VERMONA.COM Doepfer A-118-2 Random & noise generator In this example the A-118 module by Doepfer delivers a random source, fed directly into the meloDICER, which then quantizes the CV into notes in the given scale. Mono Lancet ’15 Monophonic analog desktop synthesizer Mono Lancet ’15 might be small-sized device, despite it is a bona fide analogue synthesizer. Two oscillators and a noise generator are the foundation for its sound. Together with the musical lowpass filter and VCA it’s capable of producing warm and precious sounds full of character. Beside its audio qualities Mono Lancet ’15 has a dead simple and intuitive user interface. Each parameter has its own control. You will quickly learn how to realize your sounds with Mono Lancet ’15 without thinking about what you do. meloDICER |…

www.studioelectronics.com Yep, with its rack case, the SE-3X may look like a relic from long forgotten times. But in terms of sound, however, this synth shows youngsters their limits. The dry, deep basses are unparalleled and prove immediately why its predecessor, the SE-1X, is so popular, especially with Hip Hop producers. Paraphony and four legendary filter types expand the sound spectrum on this model. The SE-3X also masters cutting leads, pearly arpeggios and even atmospheric drones and strings. The most important features * 4 filter models to choose from: Moog Minimoog, Oberheim SEM, ARP Odyssey & Roland Juno/Jupiter * Sync and ring modulation * 3-partparaphonic * Overdrive * 4 envelopes, 3 LFOs * Robustrackmount * External audio input * EPROM update available for SE-1X owners…

Akai MPC X Gold Edition The ultimate in standalone end-to-end production workflows, complete with every tool you need to produce, remix, mashup and perform your tracks live. Fusing clip-launching, a linear arranger, MIDI Multi capability, step sequencing, sampling, synth engines, tactile touch screen control and much more, all in a singular standalone device, the MPC X is primed for any setting, from the studio to the mainstage – no computer needed. Win one of only eight existing units in Europe! 1.690 Euro value | www.akaipro.com Bitwig Studio 4 Extensive playground, clip-based performances, linear recording, seamless integration of hardware and modular systems, endless on-board effects, great synthesizers, useful tools from the vital community and so on … is there anything missing? Probably not, because Bitwig is pretty much the most complete…

It was the kind of treatment usually given only to kings and queens: In 1995, Michael Jackson had producer David Morales flown to Los Angeles, put him up for three weeks in the city‘s best accommodations, and paid him valuable studio time. On top of that, Morales received an amount that he has never exactly quantified, but which some suspect to be just below six figures. Jackson got three remixes for his money, which he was able to put on his single “Scream” at the time. Money, Morales openly admitted in interviews, didn‘t matter at the time. [1] From today‘s perspective, these amounts and the effort associated with the project - including tight security checks - seem downright absurd. It‘s true that remixing is still part of day-to-day business in…

1 Kick boost Let‘s start with the main actress: the kick. If she doesn‘t have any kick, the rest of the game will be hard to get going. A typical problem is a lack of punch, so let‘s give her some. Call PROGRAM EDIT and switch to ENV: PITCH. Here we change the envelope to AHDS, SUSTAIN to 0, DECAY to 40 and DEPTH to 1600. 2 More click & belly These are good starting values: for our Jomox XBase 888 Kick this immediately works fine. If you want the bass drum to click more, set DEPTH to a higher value. If you want it to have more belly, turn DECAY up further. To make the kick more saturated, we switch to the DRUM FX and add about 50% TubeDrive…

1 The drumloop Start with a new Cubase project. Import any drumloop and adjust the tempo of the project, if necessary. In the example, I‘m working with 093 drumloop from the drumloop bundle in the MediaBay and at a tempo of 93 BPM. Then, lower the Level of the imported audio event by -3 dB to create more headroom for the following effects. 2 FX Modulator Add the new audio effect, FX Modulator, to the left in the Inspector under Inserts. This provides 13 modular effects in which various parameters can be rhythmically modulated. Click on BitCrusher to load this effect in the first of the six available effect slots. On the left in the target list, you will now find the modulable parameters. 3 Bitcrusher Select Sample Div. to…

Beat / You‘re about to release your entry into the DJ Kicks series. For me, these releases have been markers in my life. How about yourself? Cinthie / For me, too. A DJ Kicks was always a statement for very well established artists. I had the feeling the market wasn‘t so saturated with music yet. For a DJ Kicks, artists would dig deep in their collection. That‘s what I always loved about it: to discover great new tracks. Beat / Kruder & Dorfmeister‘s DJ Kicks was playing just about everywhere in the 90s and it‘s one of the key albums from that time I still play. Same goes for the Kid Loco and, more recently, the Kamaal Williams. Which were your favourites? Cinthie / The Kruder and Dorfmeister is a…

1 Controller Connect your DJ Controller to the computer on which the rekordbox DJ software is installed. Use the link function to drag the songs from the playlists to the decks; alternatively, the music is fed by way of USB sticks. The output signal of the controller is then wired to the audio input of the sound card / audio interface of the computer. 2 Microphone config To interact with the audience and the chat, a streamer microphone with a swiveling arm, such as the PSA1 from Røde [3], is recommended. Ideally, the microphone is connected to an external mixing console with an intermediate compressor. As an emergency solution, a microphone can also be connected directly to the controller. 3 Audio configuration Open Streamlabs. In the Audio Settings (Global Settings), select the appropriate…

Review: Casio CT-S1000V The keyboard with its solid collection of bread-and-butter sounds as well as automatic accompaniment may look like newcomer stuff at first glance. But it offers a quite exciting-sounding extension, at least on paper, with the „Vocal Synthesis“. This lets you create voices such as choirs, robotic sounds, talkbox and vocoder-like timbres and even use your own audio recordings or play texts generated by smartphone via the synth. We‘ll find out if it‘s just a toy or the perfect partner for your next track. Interview: The Gathering For ten years the experimental band from Holland was virtually away, now they finally return and present their atmospheric new headphone album „Beautiful Distortion“, which reminds us of their successful masterpiece „How To Measure A Planet? (1999). In the next issue…

THE ONLY EXHIBITION MAGAZINE HOW IT ROLLS! Everything about Superbooth TECHNIQUE ADVISOR! Find your next favourite gear SOOPER GIVEAWAY Add value to your studio! SOOPER TALK: ANDREAS SCHNEIDER IN TOUCH WITH THE CREATORS » Let’s celebrate the present and its possibilities. Now. « Beat / Hi Andreas, we have the feeling that the previous SuperBooth just ended last week and the next edition is already coming up. How do you look back to the event in 2021 and what will be different this year? HerrSchneider / 2021 was a for our SuperBooth in regards of atmosphere, inside/outside, with all these experimentalhuts and tents and stages in the dark. We had a hard time and rain and not enough audience, fulfilling all covid regulations, in fact the whole show was a…

1 Find chords First, we need some chords or a melody. That‘s easy to generate with the Multi-Note device. Load it onto an empty track and select the Chords Get Alive preset. Then add a Key Filter and choose the desired scale and key — we picked C Lydian. We chose to use a Sampler with the Lagerbier Hell preset as an instrument because of its moody feeling. 2 vCreate notes As MULTI-NOTE does most of the job, we just need to find suitable chord variations, for example C#3, B2, C#3, B2 and D3 (as seen in the picture above). Now the next task is to convert these chords into real notes. Therefore we create another track, set its MIDI input to the previous channel, hit record and play. This gives…

1 Inspiration for Ambient If you combine several sounds from Nostromos BE, you can create a short Ambient track in no time flat. We start with a pad such as 25 - Synesthesia, with which we play a sequence of notes. Since the sound is already quite complex, we‘ll only play single notes, no chords. The bass sound 08 - VectorBass provides a rich foundation. 2 Dull bass In combination with other sounds, however, it can be too rich in overtones. Use the Cut control to quickly remedy this and make room in the mix for other sounds. The bass plays the same notes as our pad sound. Experiment with the octave position here. Some of Nostromos BE‘s presets are great for arpeggios, such as 32 - Outer Space. 3…

1 FM synth as a base We‘ll build such a bass using the FM-4. Although the process is quite complex the first time because of the many modulations, the synth then permanently creates new sounds and nuances, so you don‘t have to start from scratch for each track. Three oscillators form the basis, with number two and three modulating the first. 2 FM matrix How much one oscillator influences another is determined in the 5x4 matrix. There, in the first row, we set the value to 141 in the second column and to 217 in column three. We set all other cells to 0. That doesn‘t sound nice at first, but we‘ll take care of that now with lots of movement. Load two LFOs at the MODULATORS. 3 Two LFOs…

1 Master acoustics For this, we need a neutral listening situation. We achieve this with good speakers, neutral headphones and room acoustic measures. In addition, you can measure the negative influence of the room at the listening position with technology such as Reference 4, in order to then counteract dips and overemphasizations in the frequency response with a special EQ. 2 Precious and uniform Our goal: All four songs should sound powerful, warm, transparent and refined - and, moreover, their sound should show that they belong together. For the sake of clarity, we use two EQs, one for pulling out disturbing frequency bands and one for boosting and cutting larger frequency ranges. 3 Booming First, we insert the Pro EQ into all four clip busses. We search the spectrum with…

Uwyn MIDI Tape Recorder MIDI Tape Recorder is a free open source software that emulates a multitrack tape recorder - but not for recording audio signals, but MIDI data. This sounds a bit crazy, at first. After all, MIDI recordings can be edited much more flexibly in the DAW, whether in pitch, length or speed. And for decades, developers have been tinkering with the ability to post-process audio recordings in as much detail as MIDI. But the extensive processing possibilities of MIDI data, especially quantization, have a price. That‘s because it requires that data to be squeezed into a specific grid. And if you‘re improvising freely over a track in your DAW, you‘ve probably noticed that even with quantization turned off, the recording doesn‘t always have exactly the same timing…

For those who already own a good controller keyboard and prefer working in the DAW with total recall, a plug-in is the better alternative. But the plug-ins are also an interesting addition for owners of the hardware. Since these are digital synthesizers, Korg was able to take over the sound generation 1:1 in the plug-in. This also means that hardware and plug-in are sound compatible. It’s no problem with this combination to screw a cool sound or sequence on the synthesizer on the sofa or on the road and load it into the plug-in for further processing and saving with the track in the DAW. This also makes sense the other way around: For the live performance, simply load the sounds and sequences from the DAW production into the hardware…

Boom Library Uberloud Sometimes you want to make sounds not just loud, but overly loud. This is where the Uberloud plug-in comes into play; it wants to help sounds achieve maximum punch quickly and easily. This tool has three frequency bands whose gain can be controlled individually. You can choose between three modes that act between subtle and brutal. What happens exactly under the hood is not apparent to the user, but the results are convincing and often reminiscent of the popular multiband compressor Xfer OTT. Since the gain of the dry and processed signal are individually adjustable, you can fine-tune the intensity of the effect. You can also use the clipper to add additional harmonics to your signal. Since the plug-in sometimes amplifies the audio material extremely, it was…

POWERED BY DOEPFER The module offers one input and one output in mono as well as an internal carrier VCO with sawtooth waveform. The VCO can be played tonally via CV and tapped separately. If you want, you can use external signals as a carrier. It‘s worth mentioning that the tubes are compatible to the models 6AL5, EB91 and EAA91; furthermore, this module needs quite a bit of power: At 5 volts, the consumption is around 600 mA, at 12 volts around 18 mA. So you should check your rack for sufficient resources before buying. What does this module do? So much for the technical part … let‘s get straight to the sound and musical benefits: Ring Modulators are specialists for metallic sounds, but also typical „ayayay“ sounds (Dubstep says…

Ten years ago, Numark had already brought forth the N4, a 4-deck controller for home DJ sets and mobile purposes. Technically significantly modernized, the new NS4 FX presents itself in anthracite-colored garb, and it works in conjunction with the associated Serato DJ Lite software. Connections The connections are mainly on the back, so the sound can be output via the booth output using RCA or as a master signal via XLR. You can also find the USB port there. There are also inputs for a microphone and an Auxiliary connection. A toggle switch above the jog wheel of Deck 1 can be used to determine whether the signal from microphone 1 or the line signal from the aux connector should be fed in. The volume and tone controls can be…

1 Install Microtuner Download and install the Live Pack Microtuner. You will then find it in the Live Browser in the MIDI Effects. Put a MIDI controller into a new MIDI track and load the Microtuner into the track. The device should always be at the end of a MIDI effect chain! If Push and no MPE controller is connected, deactivate MPE. 2 Adjust pitch The pitch bend range of the Microtuner and the loaded MIDI controller should always match; therefore, match the pitchbend value on the Microtuner with the value of the MIDI controller. Mictrotuner has two areas for loading scales, A and B. In the A section, you will find some scales to choose from in the Collection folder under File. 3 Load scale When downloading the pack, a folder labeled…