Beat Magazine 226 2024

PDF | 16 October 2024 | ENGLiSH:59.87 MB | GERMAN:23.45 MB

42 EFFECT PEDALS discoverd – New sounds for guitars, synths & vocals

Effect pedals are only for guitars! No, because they also work for drums and synths. So it‘s time for a market overview with must-haves, affordable all-rounders, the coolest tube distortion pedals for drum machines, endless reverbs for your synths and of course secret budget tips. We also provide promising effect chains, test the latest pedals and provide instructions for building your own pedal boards. Discover with us the huge potential of experimenting with effect pedals and get back to tweaking the sound with a pedal instead of using a mouse and trackpad!

Computer Music 337 2024 PDF

English | 100 pages | True PDF | 80 MB

Explore Logic’s hotly-awaited new version in Computer Music issue 337 – and get a free multi-effect tool worth £79! Any new update to Logic (or any DAW!) is worth knowing about if you love music production – the game-changing new features, the workflow improvements and above all, the new opportunities for making cool sounds! From the helpful new AI of the Session Players to the innovation of astounding Stem Splitter, there’s plenty to read about, that’s for sure.

BEAT Magazine 222 July 2024

English | 12 July 2024 | 16.71MB

PLUGIN SECRETS – 56 Tricks you don’t know yet!

Some things are just not up for debate, plug-ins are a cool thing! But do you really know every trick? Can you quickly create the ideal sounds for your track? Are you taking advantage of VST3 and CLAP? Are the vocals prominently mixed and the bass perfectly placed thanks to the Pultec trick? Our extensive special not only provides you with indispensable sound design tips, but also shows you how to build chart sounds for current genres such as K-Pop, House and Bass Music. And (shhh!) you‘ll also benefit from exclusive advice from experts like Hainbach, Venus Theory and Bad Snacks!

BEAT Magazine 223 August 2024

English | 12 July 2024 | 11.40MB

Pure nostalgia, reduction to the essentials or is it the retro charm that is so popular thanks to Lo-Fi? Either way: While battleships like Kontakt, Falcon or HALion boast ever more complex features and make entire orchestras playable in a realistic way, trackers and old-school samplers are celebrating one revival after another. We‘ll show you why this hard- and software is so popular for Lo-Fi sound, how you can produce emotional tracks with the popular lo-fi flair and provide the right plug-ins for the most important tricks. We‘ll also give you our own tracker, which lets you revive more than just the vibe of the 80s.

Electronic Sound 121 2025

English | 100 pages | PDF | 38 MB

Electronic Sound is the best electronic music magazine in the world. In-depth coverage of the current scene, the pioneers, the machines, and the current thinking of the electronic music world.

Komorebi Flutes KONTAKT

Team ARCADiA | 24 November 2024 | 9.68 GB

A toolkit perfect for scoring, producing electronic styles and meditative music Komorebi – 木漏れ日 means “sunlight leaking through trees,” this word describes the beauty and wonder of rays of light dappling through overhead leaves, casting dancing shadows on the forest floor. Komorebi Flutes is a traditional and oriental Japanese/Chinese wind instrument, a toolkit perfect for scoring, producing electronic styles and meditative music. Like in traditional Japanese and Chinese mask magic Komorebi Flutes has many “faces” – it can produce a calming “Zen” sound but it also can haunt you.

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!