Computer Music's goal is to help its readers create great music with a PC or Mac. Each month find easy-to-follow tutorials for all sorts of music software, unbiased reviews of the latest products and answers to technical questions.
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“The best will receive a toilet roll. I have loads” I don’t mind admitting that the situation outside your studio (as I write this anyway; who knows once I’ve finished) has affected Computer Music, as it has many other businesses. And yes, before I’m hauled outside – at the correct social distance – by an outraged Twitter user, I do understand that what happens to businesses pales into insignificance compared to the personal impact that Covid 19 has had. But the situation has brought some changes to the magazine, not least that if you are reading this on the printed page, then you are one of the lucky ones (even I don’t get to do that!). We’re also putting the odd regular feature like the cm Plugin Suite roundup online…
cm/free offer LOOPCLOUD CM PACK How to claim your special Loopcloud offer, including a free 1+GB pack of incredible sounds. cm/free samples SYNTH ATMOS & INDUSTRY Two great collections of synth samples plus incredible samples from the vault. DVD or download via File Silo cm/free videos STUDIO TIPS & TRICKS Videos from our tips, Producer Masterclass, Loopcloud and Expert Guides. Download from File Silo cm/free plugin FREESTYLE CM 1.5 An update to the plugin that looks after the Computer Music Plugin Suite (and more). DVD or download via File Silo…
PSP Audioware PSP InfiniStrip This smart new plugin from Poland wants to be your new go-to channel strip Seven years in the making, PSP Audioware’s latest release is a modular channel strip plugin into which up to nine dynamics, EQ, filtering and other processors are chained in series, drawn from a roster of 22 options. Seven of the nine slots are each dedicated to loading one of a particular type of module, while two ‘Insert’ slots can load any of them or either of two ‘Special’ modules. The module types and numbers comprise five Preamps, three Filters, three Gates, three Compressors, three EQs, two Limiters, and the Master Control module for output levelling, panning and monitoring, plus the two Specials: De-esser and De-hummer. While the majority of the modules are…
Beats and Loops It sounds risky but the USP of Beats and Loops, a new drum machine and looper app, is that it can be triggered using your phone’s proximity sensor, so you can put it on the floor and ‘stomp’ above it. In doing so, you trigger fills, switch between song parts and record loops, with everything you capture automatically syncing to the current project tempo. This enables hands-free operation. The good news is that both iOS and Android users can risk a smashed screen: Beats and Loops costs $4. kovaluu.com Dolby On You’ll probably know the Dolby name, but you might not have heard of Dolby On, an app for those who want to record and livestream audio and video at higher quality. Promising one-tap recording and a…
cm Tell us how Hit‘n’Mix came to be. MD “Since I was little, I’ve been curious about how everything works, from tech to biology, to the mind and perception. One of my earliest software projects involved finding a way for a computer to convert the thousands of black and white dots that make up a scanned page of text into an editable document (OCR). Leading on from that, getting a computer to play back music from scanned sheets of manuscript sounded exciting, so I launched into developing PhotoScore, which has been incredibly successful worldwide. “Creating notation from audio seemed like a natural progression, so my next work involved investigating how we hear individual notes in music. Through much trial and error, I found I could achieve the highest accuracy by…
