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The Mellotron has contributed its sound to countless hits, from David Bowie and Genesis to Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Trentemøller, AIR, Nils Frahm, Lana Del Rey and Weezer. M-Tron Select brings the distinctive vintage sound of the „tape sampler“ to

At a width of just about 60 centimeters and one height unit, my live rack has everything it needs for a live performance: Blck_Noir provides the powerful drums, Moonwalker, Polygogo and Osiris mainly serve as the actual sound generators, and the Doep

We start with the module with the probably most popular model: the MiniMod, for which the four-pole filter with of the Moog Model D was the inspiration. The equipment is clear: cutoff and emphasis aka resonance with CV inputs and controls for their i

VCV Rack 2, available as open source, undoubtedly offers the biggest collection of modules, but only runs as standalone software in the free edition. VCV CardinalSynth however is a plug-in version in VST2, VST3, AU, JACK and LV2 formats for Linux, Wi

Anyone who has ever dealt with modulars on the computer will have stumbled across the free VCV Rack, among other things. The open-source software shines with a huge community, which reproduces pretty much every module available „in real life“. So eve

Bucket brigade devices are series circuits of chips that delay the incoming signal. Inspired by a series of water buckets that are passed from hand to hand to extinguish a fire, the delay is sometimes longer or shorter, which ultimately gives the del

I want to put together my first modular rack; what do I need to consider? Sebastian / Often you tend to put together a large complex rack in the first euphoria, e.g. on modulargrid.net, because you have already watched countless YouTube videos and re

How can I create more complex LFO shapes? Benoit / One way is to use two LFOs: the first one modulates the rate, pulse width and/or phase of the second one. Different modulation depths and ratios between the LFO rates will produce a wealth of complex

Beat / How was the time since the last album - also in view of the Corona crisis? Elliot / At first, we thought it would be good to use the time to be creative. But after about four weeks, the pressure we put on ourselves became quite intense. We had

Beat / How did you experience your gradual transition from classical music to jazz? Anomalie / I started playing the piano at 4 years old and it was classical lessons for several years. Then jazz when I was around 16-17. Beat / That‘s pretty late! An

In the hi-fi world, it‘s the scandal of the year. The revelation that Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (abbreviated: Mofi), the world‘s most famous mastering studio and label, used digital technologies in its production chain hit the audiophile community wi

The Mellotron is more or less the predecessor to the modern Sampler. For each key, a tape was embedded with the recording of the corresponding note, which was then played back at the touch of a key. Since the tapes contained original recordings of ac

First, we double-click on the vocal sample from which we want to create the chops. Right-click on the waveform and left-click Open in new Slicex channel to load the sample into FL Studio‘s internal plug-in, Slicex, which is generally well suited for

Create an audio track and load the Looper audio effect into the track. Label the track Looper. Create a second audio track and name it Insert. In the track routing, select Looper as the input type under Audio From. In the drop-down menu directly belo

The implementation is as simple as the recipe and, most importantly, almost any existing song can be extended with it. So load either one of your MPC projects or our demo workshop. Switch to the track with the kick, press its pad, then COPY and an un

Let‘s start with the most important track: the hook line. This is to be played by a rich analog sounding synth, for which we will use Thor. Load the synth and right-click on the GUI and select Reset Device. To make the sound nice and wide, we use two

Add an instrument track to your Cubase project and load Retrologue 2 with the Last Light Pad preset on it. Play any harmony sequence as a pad with the keyboard or draw it with the pen tool. In the example, I used the chords Dm7/9, Fmaj7 and G6. We no

When compressing with the multiband compressor in the previous chapters, we trimmed level peaks for each of the five bands that exceeded a threshold we had previously set. Now, we have to make up for the level loss for each band by readjusting the ga

Start with a new project at a tempo of 97 BPM and import the enclosed 4 Stem Tracks. These four instrumental tracks currently have almost no spatiality. Add a send effect channel to the piano track with the Fabfilter Pro-R reverb. With this effect, w

The current episode of our BEAT Podcast took place for the first time as a video call via Zoom and, therefore, involved two hurdles at once: On the one hand, both participants had to record the interview for the sake of better quality, and on the oth

Dirk Serries is, next to Steve Roach, probably the most important Ambient artist after Brian Eno. In the mid-80s, he developed his underground noise project VidnaObmana into music filled with almost painful melancholy and beauty. His first „Trilogy“

In its release year, 1986, the hybrid synthesizer Sequential Prophet VS was a real innovation: With four oscillators containing 127 digital waveforms, between which you could crossfade with a joystick, as well as an analog filter, the instrument open

The GForce OB-E could secure the top position among Oberheim emulations. With eight modules modeled on the Oberheim SEM, it delivers an incomparable sonic power, which does, however, also have its price. So it‘ all the more pleasing that the manufact

Roland‘s SH-101 is probably one of the most popular mono synthesizers due to its clear and easy-to-learn sound generation, powerful and punchy sound and intuitive sequencer. Accordingly, there are already some replicas of the synthesizer classic from

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When you hear a track by Stephan Bodzin, you immediately know that it comes from the pen of the Melodic Techno DJ and Producer. This is particularly attributable to the distinctive synth sounds, which can also be convincingly created with DUNE 3. Our

The newest member of the Finisher product family is advertised as a „Magical Movement Machine“ and attracts with an inviting interface in a steampunk aesthetic. That‘ s reason enough to take a closer look at Finisher Dynamo! This plug-in comes with 5

Who says ambient tracks can‘t have a beat? We start our track with a Drum Patch from Solar Eclipse. To do this, load Zampler//RX as a virtual instrument in your DAW and feed it with the new soundset by loading „Zampler Solar Eclipse.fxb“. Select the

Lovers of the Science Fiction genre will have listened directly to the names of the microphones, after all, The Martian and Cocoon are also the titles of two well-known movies from this field. And the design of the microphones and accessories has bee

East Beast is semi-modular in design and features 9 patchable modules (Oscillator, Filter, Envelope, VCA, LFO, Multi-Mod Tool, Sequencer, MIDI/CV Converter and Mini Key Keyboard) with a generous 18 patch points to connect to itself and other devices.

You can assemble Mavis yourself, but soldering is not necessary. As a reward, you get a semi-modular synthesizer with an oscillator, classic ladder filter and 24 patch jacks for internal rewiring or linking to other hardware, which is done via small

»I use a hybrid studio in the form of an iMac, an analog Tascam M-2600 MKII split mixer with 24 tracks and the two interfaces M-Audio MobilePre and Cymatic Audio uTrack24, as well as a Pioneer CT-F500 cassette recorder and over 600 .aax plugins from

Preparations are barely necessary, just some time, enough to drink, good weather - to ensure that more than just rain is recorded - and a recorder for the sounds. This can be a smartphone if need be, but real stereo or even multitrack recordings are

A randomly generated audio signal from the radio is to serve as the sample source. To do this, search for any internet radio station via a corresponding website, such as internet-radio.com. Route the radio stream to an audio track in Live using a vir

Think about how the GUI (user interface) for your plug-in should look and create a sketch in a graphics program such as Photoshop [2] or Affinity Photo [3] of how the controls should be arranged, where they should be located, and how many sections yo

As one of the most timeless musical genres, Ambient has always maintained a place in the flood of electronic music styles. But growth hasn‘t stopped there either, and with drones in particular, it has spawned a subgenre that has become amazingly popu