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Though it was only a few issues ago that we contemplated the future of music, we came to the realisation that the future is now! With more effects at our disposal than ever before, we tour the modern arsenal of plug-in effects, tools and software that you might not even realise existed! Elsewhere, we speak to the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff about his production and DJing ethos, and join Detroit-based artist Klayton, whose love of 80s electronic and metal bands has borne many fruitful projects, not to mention an amazing studio. We put Hans Zimmer Strings to the test, as well as a slew of new pieces of gear and software in our expanded reviews section. Additionally, there’s 4 new tutorials for Live, Logic, Cubase and Pro Tools, brand-new tips, retrospectives and our Essential Guide series draws to a close with a 101 to recording. We hope you enjoy the issue!

Drum & Bass veteran DJ Rap walks us through the sound design, mixing and mastering processes that she used when producing her track ‘Emote’, which she released on her Propa Talent label.

If you want to produce authentic house music fuzed with jazzy samples, Julian Gray has you covered. Julian will walk you through the exact techniques he uses to produce an funky, jazzy house track from start to finish in Ableton Live

Watch classically trained musician and world famous music producer Ill-Esha as she arranges and composes every section of this mid tempo hip-hop inspired track step by step

Vengeance Essential Tech House is here to help you bring down the house or raise the roof - whichever you prefer!

This new samplepack by Vengeance Sound delivers authentic, up-to-date tech house and techno samples.

A music-career book like no other, The Music Producer's Survival Guide offers a wide-ranging, exploratory, yet refreshing down-to-earth take on living the life of the independent electronic music producer. If you are an intellectually curious musician/producer eager to make your mark in today's technologically advanced music business, you're in for a treat.

Audio Engineering 101, Second Edition is a real world guide for starting out in the recording industry. If you have the dream, the ideas, the music and the creativity but don't know where to start, then this book is for you!

Filled with practical advice on how to navigate the recording world, from an author with first-hand, real-life experience, Audio Engineering 101, Second Edition will help you succeed in the exciting, but tough and confusing, music industry.

This series, Perspectives On Music Production, collects detailed and experientially informed considerations of record production from a multitude of perspectives, by authors working in a wide array of academic, creative, and professional contexts. We solicit the perspectives of scholars of every disciplinary stripe, alongside recordists and recording musicians themselves, to provide a fully comprehensive analytic point-of-view on each component stage of record production.

Music Rights Unveiled provides an inside look at the complex world of music rights for film and video and includes step-by-step guidance to navigate these tricky waters. Authors Brooke Wentz and Maryam Battaglia share their decades of expertise in this user-friendly guide, designed specifically with filmmakers and producers in mind. The book provides a brief history of the pricing of music in film, television and digital media markets, and explains the process by which music is licensed or acquired for films, highlighting pitfalls to avoid and strategies for success.

Proudly presented by Akai Pro and MVP Loops, this expansion pack brings the eclectic genre-blending sound of modern EDM and Future Trap to your MPC. This electrifying pack delivers 15 club-ready kits filled with big synths, build-ups, one-shots, creative melodic ideas and drops just in time for festival season.

Akai Pro & MVP Loops proudly present The Vault, now available as an MPC Expansion pack. This gigantic pack features a wealth of world-class sounds, tailor made for the MPC. The Vault delivers over 5.8 GB of radio-ready content, including 248 MPC kits and more than 8000 samples covering Trap, hip hop, EDM, R&B, acoustic and beyond. Additionally, there are nearly 400 melodic patterns to instantly fuel that creative spark. Crack open The Vault and unleash these supreme sounds on your MPC today!

Learn how to craft cinematic pads, epic chord progressions and punchy basses, and master advanced sound design techniques employed by ArtFX while he attempts to beat our challenge.

Start crafting Future Bass masterpieces in Logic Pro! Acclaimed DJ and producer David Heartbreak shows in this course how to put together a mind-blowing Future Bass track from start to finish, sharing his expertise on topics such as music theory, sound design, arrangement, mixing and mastering.

Gilisoft Audio Converter Ripper is must-have software for people who cannot imagine their life without digital music. It combines a powerful audio converter and handy CD ripper in one useful program. Convert audio free between formats. Over 40 audio formats supported! Convert WMA to MP3, MP3 to M4A, WAV to MP3, MP3 to WMA, FLAC to MP3, AAC to MP3, M4A to MP3, OGG to MP3, APE to MP3.

élastiqueAAX is zplane’s time and pitch manipulation plugin for Pro Tools. It uses the élastiquePro V3 time-stretching and pitch shifting engine which is integrated in numerous DAWs and satisfies millions of users around the world. This ensures the highest, program independent time-stretching/pitch-shifting quality.