May 2023

Electronic Musician

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Something New
When it comes to being creative, sometimes there’s nothing quite as inspiring as trying something new. If, as I’d assume is true of many readers, you’ve been making music for some time, it’s incredibly easy to sink into routines and patterns that can
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New Gear
Considered by many to be the underrated dark horse of the vintage Roland Jupiter polysynth herd, the Jupiter-6 is getting some deserved time in the spotlight thanks to a new plugin emulation from Cherry Audio: the Mercury-6. Released in 1983, the Jup
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Minimal Audio Release Cluster Delay
Minimal Audio have announced the release of a new effects plugin, Cluster Delay. A powerful and full-featured multi-tap delay, the plugin’s capable of producing a rich variety of delay effects from simple, functional repeats to experimental sonic tex
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Modalics Eon-arp Is A Free Plugin For Creating Wild Melody And Chord Patterns
Modalics’ first plugin, Beat Scholar, put a new spin on the beatmaking plugin concept, and was notable for its sliceable ‘beat pizzas’. The follow-up, EON-Arp, focuses on the creation of melodic and harmonic patterns, and the pleasing news is that yo
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Make A Track With Tracktion Waveform Free 12
At Electronic Musician we love to bring you the best in free production tools. We’ve covered various free plugins in these pages in the past, but this issue we’re focusing on one specific freebie - a fully equipped DAW with all the tools you need to
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Behringer Confirm Details Of Their Moog Taurus Emulation
Almost exactly a year ago, Behringer announced the Toro - a budget emulation of the Moog Taurus Revision 1 bass synth. The good news is that we now have a proper demo to look at and listen to; the bad news is that the Toro is going to cost significan
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Tips For Creating Melodies
Coming up with a memorable melody is key to writing a decent song, yet this part of the process is often the hardest hurdle to overcome. Melodies can be elusive creatures - sometimes they appear fully-formed when you least expect it, other times you
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Neil Cowley
With his skills as a keyboardist in heavy demand, classically trained pianist Neil Cowley began his career as a session musician working with bands such as The Brand New Heavies and solo pop idols Emeli Sandé and Adele. With his own band, the Neil Co
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Roland MC-202 MicroComposer
Even the most studied aficionado of analog esoterica could be forgiven for overlooking Roland’s MC-202. And that’s just what music buyers did upon its release in 1983. A dismal failure at the time, the 202 should have been a runaway hit, slotting in
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SH-4d
$664 roland.com Roland’s approach to revisiting their back catalog has become rather scattershot. Between the Aira, Boutique, Zen-Core and Cloud lines, there seems to be no corner of the Japanese brand’s history left unexplored. We’re at a stage wher
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Pigments 4
$212 www.arturia.com Arturia need no introduction when it comes to recreations of vintage synthesizers for your desktop delight. They were one of the first companies to ride the classic synth wave in software form, but if you crave a softsynth with c
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Seaboard Rose 2
$1,399 roli.com Finally, eight years after its launch in 2015, the long-awaited sequel to the Seaboard Rise has arrived, and it includes a few noteworthy changes that make this futuristic production tool a lot more playable to nonSeaboard veterans. T
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B1 Analog Bass Sequencer
$223 idonner.eu Donner are already fairly well known in the guitar, drum and piano spheres for budget-friendly instruments. Recently, however, the Chinese brand have been moving into the production market, with some compact controller keyboards - exp
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Hitmaker SDX
$174 www.toontrack.com For anyone in need of great drum resources, Toontrack have you covered. The entry-level EZDrummer suite provides anything but entry-level sounds, while Superior Drummer 3 takes the drum sampling concept to dizzying heights, ben
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GoAux Series
from $412 krkmusic.com - Sound lacks the fullness of larger nearfields GoAux 3 and GoAux 4 are the new on-the-go speakers from KRK and each kit comprises a pair of monitors in a padded travel case with space for all the extras. The GoAux 3 and GoAux
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Mpe Mvps
Expression and music have always gone hand-in-hand, and while the humble MIDI keyboard has served us well as the bedrock of our computer music infrastructure, even greater means to explore sounds are available now. Scanning the range of MPE controlle
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MPE Controllers
One of the originators of five-dimensional control surfaces, Roger Linn’s LinnStrument contains rows of illuminated squares which can be assigned to consecutive semitones, and tuned to match that of a real instrument, leading to a robust, real-instru
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MPE Synths
Melding analog and digital synthesis approaches, Quanta 2 is a ten-voice polyphonic granular synth with a complex modulation system. A deep and rewarding synth, Quanta 2 is also a fully-fledged MPEsupporting playground. You can assign any of your MPE
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The History Of Deep Control
As electronic musicians, we can’t deny the fact that we’ve occasionally glanced across at our real-world instrumenttoting colleagues with more than a whiff of envy. Sure, with our hefty plugin arsenals, sample libraries and pristine-sounding virtual
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Lewis Thompson
Ever worried that you haven’t got the talent to make it big in the music business? Well, take a leaf or two out of Lewis Thompson’s book. He might not have the self belief either, but he certainly has the sheer determination, hard work ethic and, wel
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Trikk
Since his 2011 debut, Portuguese artist Trikk has carved out a reputation as an inventive electronic musician, inhabiting various musical guises across a miscellany of club-focused EPs for Drumcode, ManMakeMusic and Innervisions. On his latest releas
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Blues Rock Acapellas
$30 Some seriously heavy vocal samples up for grabs inside this quality pack of blues-infused singing sessions. Choose from lead work, backing tracks, off-the-cuff adlibs, and other lyrical layers, full of stank-faced grit and soul. This 1.61GB set o
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Trikk’s Top Tips
1 There are no rules and if someone like me tells you to do something a certain way, question it first and only later see if it can potentially work for you. Many times I have wondered how to achieve a certain sound or idea that I listened to somewhe

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