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.
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“So we did it! It only took 20-odd years…” This issue’s cover feature has been decades in the making or (if I’m to be slightly less dramatic) it’s an article that I’ve had in the back of my mind since we launched this magazine many years ago. The concept is simple: to show you how to do as many music production processes as possible, all of them utilising plugins from the Computer Music Plugin Suite. You will certainly learn a thing or two about music production, but best of all you can do it safe in the knowledge that you have all the tools — no cash required! It’s been a tough feature to get up and running simply because the Plugin Suite has taken years to assemble to include…
Right about now we’d usually just be returning from our annual NAMM pilgrimage where we all claim to have been in LA for a week finding out about all the latest music tech releases. The reality is this massive music gear show is in the rather less majestic Anaheim and, secondly, it’s been postponed until May because of, well, you know what. But that’s not stopped some companies releasing some great products so here are three of the best, including a sad goodbye to an iconic orchestral series… First up, news of a new G-Force plugin. The Gear of 2021 winners (for OB-E) don’t usually release many plugins so are really spoiling us with two in two years. The M-Tron MkII is, as G-Force say, “a celebration of an instrument…
As you probably know, it’s totally unlike us to abuse space in our news section to plug something that we’ve done, especially on the very first page of it. But here’s news of The Music Producer’s Guide To Synths that we might well have had a hand in. Featuring in-depth articles on the most popular softsynths, a guide to integrating modular synths with your DAW, and several other amazing features (that regular readers might recognise — plus one or two extras, of course), this is the ultimate synth fan’s bookazine. Out now! Available in all good (and mediocre) newsagents…
Audiokit Reverb You can always rely on AudioKit to deliver a free iOS music-making app, and its latest is the simple but “pro-sounding” Reverb. Designed to be used as an AUv3 effect within your favourite host — GarageBand, AUM or Cubasis 3, for example — this has just three knobs, so using it should be a doddle. What’s more, because it’s open-source, the more adventurous can use the source code to bring the reverb to their own apps. You can grab Reverb now for iPhone and iPad. Make sure you get in quick, though, as it’s only free for a limited time. audiokitpro.com MIDI Tape Recorder MIDI Tape Recorder is a free ‘DAW’ for people who don’t like the complex nature of standard DAWs, and promises to treat MIDI data…
cm How did you get into music software? CS “I have been studying, performing and composing music in various forms since I was ten. Much later I moved to London where I studied Music Information Technology at City University, London, under the inspirational Jim Grant. I got all the tools I needed to understand the principles of sound and the ability to produce working prototypes of signal processing ideas, but was not very familiar with core C++ programming. When I moved back to Greece I got introduced to Akis Golfidis and his team (a very famous and well respected audio engineer of over four decades) as well as Theofilos Christodoulou who later became the main software engineer at MIA. Working together as a team, we started MIA Laboratories.” cm How…
