Computer Music

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.

welcome

Eleventh power • Version 11 of Auto-Tune has landed, but what does the vocal effect stalwart bring to our stuffed 2024 table?

Song Athletics: Setting a pace for the future • On the heels of a flurry of impeccably recorded sample pack releases, Song Athletics’ ongoing aim is to enrich artistic expression in a broader music production sense. To that end, it’s even co-branded a coffee range…

Grab Song Athletics Some Drums for free with this issue! • Song Athletics has kindly provided us with a free download of the superb Some Drums!

Cableguys TimeShaper 3 • Before we begin our time manipulating odyssey, get to know this month’s free plugin, which serves as our main time-twisting tool!

CREATIVE TIME EFFECTS • It’s the family of effects that brought you some of the world’s coolest sounds. Yes, follow our guide and time could mean money for you and your music

Time-shaping concepts • Thought that the domain of time-manipulation started and finished with delay? Time to think again!

Reverse audio • Backwards is the new forwards: the history of reverse audio in music

Time-stretch trendsetters • By the ’90s it might have seemed to some like all of the possibilities for subverting playback had been done… or were they?

KASBO • Birthed from an agonising stress-related hearing loss, and put together in an ABBA-owned prison-turned studio, Kasbo’s third album The Learning of Urgency is a potent, melody-infused statement from an artist in ascendence

#05 Build an LFO wobble bass in BazilleCM • Patching LFO into your life doesn’t have to make you feel wobbly, unless that’s exactly what you’re trying to achieve

#07 Mid-side EQing techniques • Enhance the stereo imaging on your dance music project and hear it shine!

#4 Make a track in the style of Pet Shop Boys • The Pet Shop Boys have just released a new album, Nonetheless, so it’s a great time to show you how to create some of their signature sounds for free

#20 Working with VCA groups • This clever feature can be indispensable when you’re mixing, and a great companion to submixing

PEEL • Forging a close bond as two-thirds of international superstars, Foster the People, Sean Cimino and Isom Innis have embarked on a parallel life as Peel. Taking in influences both new and old, the pair’s debut LP Acid Star showcases the breadth of their unfettered sonic ambitions…

Modalics MINDst Drums $99 • It might be a bit too purple for Andy Jones, but behind its simple UI, MINDst Drums delivers all the mix-ready, real beats you could need…

Wavesfactory Equalizer £85 • Another day, another smart EQ, but does this rather blandly-named processor do a great job without stressing you out? Andy Jones tunes in

Korg Gadget 3 $299 (Mac) $40 (iOS) • Korg’s Gadget is unusual in that it made the move from iOS to desktop, but is there room for it in 2024? Our inspector of Gadget: Andy Jones

SonicProjects OP-X PRO-3 €99 • Roland Schmidt discovers the new Poly-plugin from SonicProjects, which pays homage to the big beasts from Oberheim

E-instruments Desolate Guitars €$149 • Desolate Guitars could be the guitar library you didn’t know you needed, and is one of the most inspirational tools Andy Jones has used this year

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