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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. Our Zinio edition does not include the DVD but it DOES INCLUDE the full software, samples and tutorial files to download. Full details inside. Download does not include Producer Masterclass in-studio video. This digital edition is not printable.

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Audiomovers: sound that crosses borders • At the forefront of long-distance collaborative production via the ListenTo audio streaming plugin, Audiomovers have enhanced the workflows of professionals around the globe. Having joined the Abbey Road family, the company’s ambitions have built increasingly outwards, with an innovative new Binaural Renderer expanding on their passion for connectivity

GFORCE IMPOSCAR2 • Get to know this month’s impossibly good value freebie, a software take on the classic ’80s OSCar synth, from the unstoppable GForce

MAKE AI WORK FOR YOU • Fancy having AI Elvis singing on your next record? Getting an AI Lennon and McCartney on your album? Incredibly, you can. That’s how fast AI has moved. In this feature we’ll learn how it can transform your music production toolkit and become your dedicated creative co-pilot

15 questions with… Gregg Kowalsky • Initiated by a chaotic web of MIDI data, the music that makes up multi-instrumentalist Gregg Kowalsky’s new album Eso Es represents an immersive dive into a lush and emotive array of synth sounds. For the Los Angeles-based creative, its making signalled a new approach to composition

#33 Make a glide and rise lead • Creating an interesting synth lead for an arpeggiated hook in your track isn’t difficult. We just glide’n’rise!

#13 Choosing reverbs • A dash of reverb can make or break the sound of your mix so careful selection is key for getting the right spatial qualities

MEDUZA • Since exploding into the public consciousness with the majestic Piece of Your Heart, deep house outfit Meduza have established themselves as the genre’s prodigious figureheads. With a glut of incredible singles emphasising the trio’s gift for euphoric hooks, big room beats and deft vocal processing, the Milan-hailing three now bring us an eclectic debut LP. We spoke to members Luca de Gregorio and Mattia Vitale to find out more on how the trio have shaped their fortunes to become Italy’s biggest streaming artists

Physical Audio Modus £99 • Modus is a new physical modelling instrument for creating virtual models of instruments impossible in the real world. Andy Jones gets hands-on

Leapwing Audio StageOne 2 £229 • Level up your control of the stereo field with this powerful and transparent-sounding width and depth plugin. Rex Johnson leaps in…

Neumann MT 48 £1,779 • The MT 48 could be the audio interface of the future, and has a futuristic price to match, but will it set a new recording standard, asks Andy Jones?

Sound Particles SkyDust 3D £166/£333 • It’s the first 3D synth but will SkyDust 3D clutter up your mixes or scatter magic dust across them? Andy Jones journeys through time and space…

Void and Vista Strands £129 • Void and Vista’s first product to reach the market provides enormous scope for cinematic sounds and beyond. Dave Gale picks up the Strands

UVI Opal $99 • If you thought optical compressors were predictable, UVI’s latest gem might get you thinking again. Jon Musgrave is dazzled by the colour…

Solid State Logic SubGen £64 • Need to beef up your bottom end? This could be just the processor you need to make things phat. Jon Musgrave gets low, low low...