SoS UK USA January 2025

English | 148 pages | True PDF | UK:81MB | USA:92MB

Native Instruments Komplete 15 [front cover] • Melbourne Instruments Delia • Universal Audio Apollo X Gen 2 • Warm Audio WA76 compressors • SSL UC1 & 360 Link • Steinberg Cubase Pro 14 • Tascam Studio Bridge • EastWest Iconic synth library • Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 4th Gen • Slate Digital VMS • Audeze Maxwell headphones • Lauten Rim Mount • Heritage Audio Tubesessor • Polyend Tracker+ • Reason Studios Reason 13 • Project SAM Lineage Percussion • SPOTLIGHT: Drum Mic Sets • Eurorack Modules • New sample libraries — and much more!

Beat Issue 234 July 2025

P2P | 22 June 2025 | PDF | 92.8 MB

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Create Stories, Not Just Songs! 18 Tutorials on Arrangement, Dynamics & Articulation Imagine yourself conducting an entire orchestra, the symphony of your dreams in your hands. What if you could unleash this power not just in a concert hall, but right at your desk? Welcome to the fascinating world of sample and orchestral libraries, where the boundaries between digital production and acoustic reality blur. Our masterclass is your key to unlocking these soundscapes, allowing you to create everything from epic film scores to much more emotional tracks. The key to more soul in your songs! For More Feeling in Your Tracks: 25 Realistic Instruments Reviewed When it comes to bringing realistic orchestral arrangements to life directly in your DAW, there are basically two approaches to choose from: phrase-based libraries or melodically playable multi-sample instruments.

Sound On Sound July 2025

English | 140 pages | True PDF | 151 MB

REVIEWS: Soundtoys SpaceBlender • Eventide Knife Drop • Dreamtonics Synthesizer V Studio Pro 2 • Xvive More You • Audix OMX microphones • Korg microKORG2 • Arturia MicroLab Mk3 • Ferrofish Pulse 8 AE • Analogue Solutions AS500-Seq • EastWest Ancient Kingdom • Dynaudio Acoustics M1 MkII monitors • Drawmer MQ-1 & MQ-2 • Jamstik MFC1 • UJAM UFX Filter • Lake People G103-D-4 • Triton Audio Kompressor • SPOTLIGHT: Multi-Tier Keyboard Stands • Eurorack modules • New sample libraries — and much more!

Electronic Sound 118 2024

English | 100 pages | PDF | 40 MB

This month’s Electronic Sound cover stars are the fabled White Noise – Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – and we’re bundling the magazine with a fantastic seven-inch featuring previously unreleased Radiophonic Workshop remixes of two killer tracks by the pioneering electronic supergroup. Radiophonic stalwarts Derbyshire and Hodgson formed White Noise with offbeat American musician Vorhaus in 1968. We’ve interviewed the band’s two surviving members for our cover feature, which is the story of their witchy and wonderful ‘An Electric Storm’ album. It’s an entertaining tale, with lots of strange twists and turns. Lots of sex and drugs as well. White Noise used reel-to-reel tapes and an early VCS 3 on the album, but it doesn’t sound the least bit dated. And while it wasn’t a commercial success on its release in 1969, it’s become hugely influential in the decades since, inspiring sonic adventurers like Throbbing Gristle, Aphex Twin, Broadcast and more.

Electronic Sound Issue 115

English | 100 pages | PDF | 62.1 MB

This month’s Electronic Sound cover stars are the effortlessly sublime Air, who are currently on an extensive world tour to promote the deluxe edition of their landmark 1998 album ‘Moon Safari’. Performing inside a huge glass box that looks like something out of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin are playing the album live and in full for the first time – and the result is a major triumph. The French duo speak about the gorgeously languid and exquisitely produced ‘Moon Safari’ in our cover feature, as we assess the influence of a record that hit double platinum sales in the UK and remains an electronic masterpiece to this day. With big bells on.

Electronic Sound 114 June 2024

English | 100 pages | PDF | 62.5 MB

We’re investigating the visual art of John Foxx in this month’s Electronic Sound. While he is best known as the frontman of Ultravox and a revered solo musician in his own right, Foxx is also a highly distinctive visual artist. He has worked in photography, collage, graphic art and other media since the mid-1970s, and his extraordinary portfolio is detailed in a forthcoming book called ‘Electricity And Ghosts’. We’ve invited him to talk about some of his favourite pieces from the book, and the result is a fascinating glimpse into his artistic approach and the aesthetic principles he applies to both his imagery and his records. You could describe it as a sort of synthesis of John Foxx. We have a bumper selection of other great interviews elsewhere in this issue too, including Jeff Mills, John Grant, Suzanne Ciani, Orbital, Wolfgang Tillmans, Low End Activist, Keeley Forsyth and Chanel Beads. We also have a splendid new regular column called “The Best Of…”, which we think you’re going to really love. Our first volunteer is μ-Ziq man and Planet Mu label boss Mike Paradinas, who speaks about peaches, thigh-high socks and geek pies. As you do.

Electronic Sound 126

English | 100 pages | PDF | 43 MB

Ahead of their final studio album coming out in September, we’re saying a fond farewell to SAINT ETIENNE with this month’s Electronic Sound cover story and an exclusive blue vinyl seven-inch from the group. One side is a sparkling new offering and other is the track that launched the band way back in 1990. It’s incredible to think that it’s 35 years since Saint Etienne released their groovy version of Neil Young’s ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ as their debut single. Their forthcoming album, the wonderfully upbeat ‘International’, will be their 14th studio set but also their last – as Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs explain in our extensive and hugely entertaining interview. It will conclude a recording career that’s been both tirelessly eclectic and deeply indebted to their love of classic pop music. And with the list of guests on the new album including Vince Clarke and Nick Heyward, as well as radio and television presenters Katie Puckrik and Colin Murray, it’s a splendid way for the trio to bow out.