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In our cover feature this month, Alex Holmes guides you through the science and logic behind why it’s necessary to calibrate your studio and equipment, and the steps you’ll need to take to guarantee perfect, balanced sound at all times. Also this issue, Erin Barra simplifies some vital music production concepts that may have long eluded your understanding – to hopefully increase your sonic vocabulary, and we speak to Kanye West’s former controllerist and cutting-edge musician Laura Escudé about her creative approach and working with some of the biggest names in music. We also find out from IK Multimedia just how their new all-analogue UNO synth came into being in an interview with Erik Norlander, and of course we provide you with our usual wealth of tutorials and reviews of the latest products that could revolutionise your workflow. I hope you enjoy the issue.

Welcome and Congratulations!
For choosing to learn, create and implement your own brand. You are going to create one of the most powerful aspects of your own business, your brand. Yes, as a professional composer, you are your own boss, and your own business.

Sonic Academy is extremely proud to present the latest preset pack for ANA 2. ANA 2 Presets Vol. 4 - Progressive House is designed exclusively by Jerome Isma Ae and Alastor delivering 100 unique and distinguished progressive sounds, combining influences of trance and techno. Jerome and Alastor's production work is unparalleled, making them one of the highest-selling and most sought-after progressive house acts on the scene today.

Now, on each lesson, we will focus first on understanding how a particular plugin works theoretically,
covering sliders, knobs and basic parameters.

In this class, I talk about the major updates to Logic Pro 10.4, including the new Vintage EQ plugins, Smart tempo, and Phat and Step FX plugins.

This is a class for anyone that has Logic Pro X and has updated to 10.4 and wants to know what's next and how to use it!

Danny Gill parses two tracks: Accept - Balls to the wall and Led Zeppelin - The Ocean

Flutter EP is an electric piano like you've never heard before.

She is packed to the brim with specially devised samples made from a variety of slutty analogue hardware synths and keyboards. All sample sets morph and loop through various transitions for a mind boggling selection of unique but Wurly-ish, Rhodes-y, organ-esque, DX like electric piano type sounds....but of course there is a twist which makes her very different.

“Tropical SIGE”, a fantastic collection of Tropical sounds presented by PUMA LOOPS.
In this pack you will find: 5 Full Construction kits with Drum Loops, Melody Loops, Fx, Midi, Oneshots and Bonus Loops. Access the MIDI files and take 100% control of your sound and create your sound through the samples. Tropical SIGE is 100% Royalty-Free.

38 brand new Omni patches of orchestral-ish, cinematic tones, textures and deep organic basses that sound both familiar and alien....in a good way.

BASSx by Mr.Collipark is here as Mac VST/AU for both 32/64-Bit Formats. Compatible for both Mac and Pc. BASSx is 2 Plugin Bundle.

Kontakt GUI Maker has been updated to v1.1! It features now 50 new action scripts, project management, and Kontakt 5.6 support.

The ADVANCE H-1 ...There's some serious old scool circuitry in there powered by ECC88 valves/tubes and we've modelled the GUI on the original but have taken some liberties...
We've added a simple vibrato LFO and a simple envelope. There are also poly and mono modes with a glide control for the mono mode. You can switch between the raw valve sine and square waves but you can also enable the tape 'mode' and then switch between old cassette and completely knackered reel-to-reel (and the machine is so wrecked, that should be 'real-to-unreal' ... totally wrecked ... but sounds fabulous - all the qualities of valves with genuine tape saturation and excessive wow, flutter and random wobble ... which can be made more chaotic with the vibrato LFO).

Electronic Musician is not merely a recording magazine but covers all aspects of music production—performance, recording, and technology, from studio to stage. EM finds the top artists and producers – as well as all the musical trendsetters – and gets them to advise, mentor, and detail their craft. Each issue gives you the tools you need to make better music, from production to performance. Plus tips and techniques, gear reviews, and insights from today’s top artists.

This week Sonic Academy presents something a little bit different with an all-new course from Berlin-based House and Techno producer Christian Vance showing us How To Make Leftfield Techno.

This week we're bringing you an all new How To Use course and welcoming back his synth highness, King Unique, for an in-depth look into the world of FM synthesis using Arturia's DX7 V.

Over the next 11 videos, we take a detailed look at all of the parameters and controls of this beautiful monster of a synth before delving into to some sound design to showcase what the DX7 is capable of.