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Akai Professional & MVP Loops proudly present Hook City - Trap & Soul Edition.

Following up on the hit expansion, Hook City - Trap & B comes the follow up, Hook City - Trap & Soul Edition.

Akai Pro & MVP Loops proudly present Melodic Horizon, an expansion pack for your MPC. Melodic Horizon brings the warm pads, luxurious vibes and emotive melodies heard on Contemporary R&B & hip-hop chart toppers to your MPC. As versatile as the genres represented, this pack features 15 radio-ready kits with over 670 samples, including nearly 550 expertly-crafted melodic loops. Also available as an iMPC Pro Pack.

araabMUZIK has electrified stages worldwide with his unparalleled finger drumming and signature blend of hip-hop, trap and edm. In kicking off our artist series expansion packs, araabMUZIK combines all those genres into a thunderous collection of drums and samples that promise to fill dance floors from Compton to Ibiza.

Back with a explosive sequel to the DDS series with over 500mb of samples from some awesome artists with bonus kicks chop to perfection ready to flip into something special wit no clippings i want to give producers everything they need to inspire and create a dope beat.

Akai Professional and Loopmasters present Chilled Trap, the newest Expansion Pack for your MPC. Exploring the atmospheric side of the genre, Chilled Trap features a wealth of inspired melodic ideas tailored for Trap but also great for Downtempo, House, Ambient and other styles.

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.