May 2022 Magazine Contents

Alder Audio’s debut ribbon mic is at once innovative, classy and highly affordable.

What do you get when you cross a drum machine with a librarian and a cartographer?

ALM/Busy Circuits’ Tyso Daiko is a dual-voice 12-bit wavetable drum module that packs a punch.

The Zen Q completes Antelope Audio’s impressive trio of desktop interfaces.

Apogee introduce their own take on the DSP‑powered audio interface.

Is Apple’s Mac Studio the perfect computer for the studio?

Efx Fragments is a granular effects processor that can create effects ranging from obvious glitchiness to ethereal ambiences.

After recreating the Moog modular, Roland System 100M and ARP 2500 modules in Eurorack form, Behringer decided to tackle something more modern in the shape of a multi-engine digital oscillator module.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Forest Kingdom 3 offers top‑quality sound design from someone who has obvious passion and real expertise in his field.

Dreadbox are on form with an instrument that packs a lot of synth into a very small box.

Tired of running back and forth between the control room and live room? Meet your new robotic assistant...

Enjoy Electronics combine past and present in this intriguing quadraphonic digital delay.

Having already emulated the Echoplex tape delay, Foxgear set their sights on the Binson Echorec.

Veteran software Mellotron specialists GForce have recreated the sounds of the earliest models with startling accuracy.

This versatile input channel gives you the classic sound of tubes, transformers and inductors.

Heavyocity take a creative wrecking ball to the orchestra.

With its built‑in mixer and the option of battery operation, the HH Tensor‑GO offers a versatile solution for reproducing high‑quality live sound both on and off the grid.

Mirror creates reversed delay/reverb effects that come before the note...

With its intoxicating amount of modulation options, this creative effects plug‑in could become rather addictive!

Gibson breathe new life into a fondly remembered vintage pedal marque.

This clever storage and expansion solution is intended as the perfect companion to a Mac Mini.

Based on the chorus section of Roland’s classic RE‑501, this isn’t your average 500‑series module!

Rode’s innovative new cans bring fresh thinking to the world of headphone design.

Sample Logic deliver a flexible pad, soundscape and atmosphere designer with a powerful DIY twist.

Sampleson’s modelled Wurlitzer ticks all the right electric piano boxes.

A stunning overhaul of SSL’s bus compressor, the Bus+ goes much further than most imitators without sophistication undermining ease of use.

Cubase gains new features and dispenses with the dongle.

With 32‑bit recording, multiple mic inputs and a smartphone‑style touchscreen interface, Tascam’s top‑of‑the‑range recorder is brimming with potential.

Tascam’s new stage mic offers remarkable bang for your buck!

Hans Zimmer’s drum collection doesn’t disappoint.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. The library focuses on three essential playing styles: long and short notes, and an emphatic marcato delivery with a pronounced attack leading to a looped sustain, great for big histrionic stabs and dramatic final chords.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This new library presents gongs in the format of a Kontakt instrument, laced with interesting colour and effects.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Featuring the exceptional voice of Clara Sorace to offer both playable vocal notes and complete phrases, this library offers a haunted Celtic quality to the sounds.

Poo Bear, the American two‑time Grammy Award‑nominated songwriter, producer and principal collaborator of pop megastar Justin Bieber, chooses his own favourite vocal on a track from Bieber’s Changes album.

Central Cee has taken drill music to the top of the UK album charts, thanks to some very fast work from mix engineer Sean Donoghue.

Key commands can place even the most obscure Logic Pro features at your fingertips!

One of the world’s leading engineers specialising in rock music, Mike Plotnikoff is renowned for his guitar sounds. The secret? Find the right amp and keep it simple.

Taking a chance on immersive music has paid off handsomely for producer Stan Kybert, who has reinvented himself as one of the UK’s busiest Atmos mixers.

The Smart Tool might be smarter than you knew!

Create your own custom GUIs in the new Combinator.

Eddie Bazil gives six sound design tips, using various plug-in filters to create unique instrument sounds and to add interest and movement to mixes.

One of the most in‑demand studio designers in the world explains why there’s more to building a studio than getting the acoustics right. Much, much more...

We show you how to get PreSonus' Studio One DAW talking to your MIDI gear.

Looking to start a new live music night? We tell you what you’ll need and how to use it.

I’m finding that the tweeter in one of my monitors is intermittent. Is the tweeter broken or could something else be going on here?

I keep reading about the use of ‘negative feedback’ to reduce distortion in audio gear. How does this work and how effective is it?

Hannah Peel, composer, producer and broadcaster, talks to Caro C about her solo record career, including the shortlisted 2021 Mercury Music Prize electronic album, scoring music for Game Of Thrones and her many other diverse projects.

A widely lauded innovator in the world of contemporary electronic and experimental music, British artist Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, has been creating music and works of sonic art for the best part of 40 years.

Enigmatic New York producer Morgan Geist began making techno in his ’90s college dorm before a remix turned his life upside down.

David Cranmer, aka Nervous Squirrel, builds amazing musical instruments, including alpaca sound systems, a Theremin in a badger and one of the biggest modular synthesizers in the world. Here he explains how anyone can master the skills needed to build your own modules.

During his lifetime, Antonius Stradivarius made around 2000 instruments, but dying gave his productivity a real boost...

Sea Change is the moniker of Norwegian producer and singer Ellen AW Sunde, whose ethereal music borrows from club culture as much as it does from ambient and experimental soundscapes.

Modern, computer‑based music technology has revolutionised home production. For all the positives, though, one downside...