Music Tech Magazine - Issue 35
100 Top Software Tips for Cubase, Live, Logic, Reason and Sonar. Modern Mastering Part 2. Sonar 5 and Reason 3.0 Workshops. How the traditional reel-to-reel multitracker can still play a part in your studio.
Publish date: 19 January 2006
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In the issue
To help improve your creativity, speed up your workflow and leave you to concentrate on the important details, we asked our experts to compile their top tips for using Cubase SX/SL3, Live 5, Logic Pro 7, Reason 3.0 and Sonar 5. Read the best of these in this month’s Top 100 Music Software Tips feature.
Clinical accuracy is often cited as one of the biggest shortcomings of the digital medium with a plethora of different methods of achieving ‘that tape sound’ available to the home user. But hard disks are currently pushing many second-hand tape machines onto the market, and Huw Price argues that it makes little sense to spend time and money faking a tape sound when you can use tape itself. Here Huw discusses the ins and outs of buying and using the Reel Thing.
This month also sees the concluding part of Mark Cousins' Modern Mastering feature, which looks at how you can achieve the sound of modern mastering studios on your own recordings.
Sonar 5 and Reason 3.0 users are in for a real treat this issue, as well as the Top 100 Music Software Tips feature, there are software workshops on Using Reason 3’s Built-in Synths and processing using Sonar 5’s V-Vocal effect. Our Ten Minute Masters series continues this month with Sound Absorbers and Additive Synthesis.
The title of ultimate software sampler is still up for grabs and Yellow Tools is hoping that their new sampler Independence can make its mark. Find out what we made of it in this month’s exclusive review. Also reviewed this month is M-Audio’s new all-in-one mixer and audio interface ProjectMix I/O, Steinberg’s updated virtual workstation Hypersonic 2 and many more.
On the DVD
Juno-60 sample collection
This month’s exclusive royalty-free sample collection is a selection of loops and samples from the Roland Juno-60, one of the first hybrid digital/analogue synthesizers. Considered by many to be richer and punchier than its MIDI-compatible sibling, the Juno-106, the Juno-60’s chorus and analogue circuitry were inherently more stable than that found on other synths of the time as the oscillators were digitally controlled.
Vocal Forge Samples
A selection of royalty-free samples taken from the Vocal Forge ROMpler by Zero-G producers Mike Wilkie and Matthew Corbett. The full library includes 14 vocal construction kits covering a variety of styles, ranging from choral through gothic and into hip hop.
Loopmasters' Samples
The good folks at Loopmasters have given us a selection of royalty-free samples from across the company’s Origin Series. Whether your next track needs an Afro-Latin beat, a Jazz World break or a Psychedelic Trance and Goa synth sweep, this collection will point you in the right direction.
All the latest demos
Including the Linplug Octopus, NI’s updated DJ tool Traktor DJ Studio 3, and Progress Audio Shapeshifter.
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