BEAT Magazine 209 June 2023

English | 84 pages | PDF | 50.8 MB

PRODUCER TRICKS: 40 Boosters for your tracks with BEAT 06/23

How do I find musical inspiration and how do I bring my ideas from my head into the DAW? How can I increase my musical productivity? How do I turn loops into a song and how do I develop stirring chord progressions and melodies? For everyone who hates instructions, who finds specialist recording books too dry and who finds long searches on YouTube just too stupid, we provide the best power tips on the topics of inspiration, songwriting, production, mixing, sound design and arrangement to make producing faster and easier to handle and more fun!

BEAT Magazine 208 May 2023

English | 84 pages | PDF | 52.7 MB

AUDIO INTERFACES: all answers on 22 pages – 15 models reviewed

Whether you want to record melodies or vocals, record or sample beats, integrate a modular system into your DAW setup or perform live, you need the right audio or CV interfaces to keep things running smoothly. But which ones can do what and, above all, which ones fit your workflow best? In our market check, we answer the most important questions and present current devices along with their features, compare different models and give concrete tips on how you can optimize and expand your setup. Plus an extra feature on Dolby Atmos for home studios.

BEAT Magazine 206 March 2023

English | 84 pages | PDF | 50.9 MB

Correct monitoring, perfect mixes: 31 Monitor reviewed in BEAT 03/23

We have never had a more comprehensive special on the subject of active speakers: we examine almost every active box available and present it with strengths, weaknesses and suitability. In recent months, many manufacturers have surprised us with new concepts, technical innovations and great sound. So it‘s time to pick out the best of them, so you can find the right monitor for you and your studio and take your sound to the next level.

BEAT Magazine 204 January 2023

English | 84 pages | PDF | 49.11MB

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.

BEAT Magazine 205 February 2023

English | 84 pages | True PDF | 34.73MB

BEAT 02/23: MUSIC THEORY – Learn playing notes in 2 hours

What if you could save yourself the frustration of pushing notes and bring tremendous emotion to the song in a much more purposeful way? Hello music theory! In our deep dive, you‘ll learn everything you need to know about pitches and scales, how to find chords for hit-making melodies, and get tools to make your musical life easier in just two hours. Free for BEAT readers, of course!

BEAT Magazine December 2022

English | 84 Pages | PDF | 60 MB

As one of the most timeless music genres, Ambient has always kept a firm place in the flood of electronic styles. Thanks to inspiration from other styles of music, several successful subgenres have emerged, such as Drones and Psybient. We‘ll go through the most important varieties of Ambient and show you how to produce tracks in the style of Suduaya, Deepbass, Align as well as DJ Shadow. Finally, genre pioneers like Ian Boddy and Banco de Gaia as well as current innovators like Solar Fields and Carbon Based Lifeforms give exciting insights into their creative process.

BEAT Magazine November 2022

English | 84 pages | True PDF | 54 MB

BEAT 11/22: Ambient & Drones – How to create chilled tracks

As one of the most timeless music genres, Ambient has always kept a firm place in the flood of electronic styles. Thanks to inspiration from other styles of music, several successful subgenres have emerged, such as Drones and Psybient. We‘ll go through the most important varieties of Ambient and show you how to produce tracks in the style of Suduaya, Deepbass, Align as well as DJ Shadow. Finally, genre pioneers like Ian Boddy and Banco de Gaia as well as current innovators like Solar Fields and Carbon Based Lifeforms give exciting insights into their creative process.