February 2023

Computer Music

The complete guide to making music with a computer

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How To Use Cm
Whenever you see this icon, you can grab the files on your PC or Mac by going to bit.ly/cm317downloads Tutorials featuring this icon make use of our own Plugins – find out more at bit.ly/cm317downloads This icon means there are extra files to help yo
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Welcome
The ending of a year – and as you read this, it should be the closure of 2022 – can often feel like an exaggerated full-stop, and then a moment for some reflection on the previous 12 months. In magazine parlance that usually means summing it all up a
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Best Of The Year Softsynths
We’re only allowing one synth per developer in this roundup, otherwise CA may well have cleared up. But they kept their best synth until last: this Yamaha CS-80 emulation (review on p60)! “They’ve elaborated upon the original machine, and created the
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Best Of The Year Instruments
Wave Alchemy named Triaz for its triple-layered sound engine, and with 10,000 individual samples and over 600 presets, this is more than the ultimate drum machine. “As a creative workstation, Triaz excels as a competent sound design processor, a peer
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Best Of The Year Software Effects
Morph EQ can be used for morphing effects, as well as more typical EQ duties. It aces both processes, making it one of the most creative plugins we’ve used this year. “Morph EQ takes your regular EQ interface and injects it with some real time manipu
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Best Of The Year Hardware
Audient plumb their iconic expertise into an impressive range of interfaces, and this is perhaps their best yet: “The healthy channel count and sleek design should appeal. But the most appealing thing about EVO 16 from anybody’s point of view, is tha
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Get Dynamic
Music would be very boring indeed without variation, and that’s exactly what musical dynamics are all about: variations in loudness. Examples might be a quiet verse leading into a loud chorus, a synth line that gradually increases in volume, some not
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#23 Bandpass Filter Bass
In this edition of my Synth Masterclass, we begin by becoming clairvoyant! I know what you are thinking. Why for the love of all things synthesis, would you want to create a bass patch that actively seeks to reduce its harmonic content? As is so ofte
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#02 Creating Spin Delays
Delay is a vital aspect of most mixes and can be used in numerous ways. Rather than tackle all of these in one feature, I’ll look at specific techniques, how to achieve them and where to use them. This month we’re focusing on spins. Making full use o
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Lykke Li
On paper, Lykke Li’s childhood sounds like one long musical adventure. Born in Ystad, Sweden – the setting, of course, for Henning Mankell’s Wallander books – Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson is the daughter of Johan Zachrisson, guitarist with well-known
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GForce Software Oddity3 £100
X-MODIFIERS Set up individual LFO and ADSR control of each parameter PPC Click on the software emulation buttons for proportional pitch control of pitch bend and modulation OSCILLATORS Adjust the two main VCOs and sub oscillator VINTAGE Use to gradua
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Cherry Audio GX-80 $59
PRESETS Access to included presets and patch management EFFECTS Plenty of effects options, styled toward user expectation DAW LINKAGE The GX-80 can free-flow or tempo-lock straight to your DAW DOUBLE UP The two layers of each voice, lined up, above a
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CableGuys ShaperBox 3 €99
EFFECTS Add, re-order and edit effects using the tabbed pages MULTIBAND Adjust the multiband points and select which band to edit DRAWING TOOLS Use these to add lines and curves CURVES Choose from a selection of ready made LFO curves BROWSER Access o
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Audified Linda IronVerb $99
MENUS Access scaling, the manual and copy/paste features from the various drop down menus MODE Select one of the six reverb algorithms REVERB Adjust the main reverb parameters and use the Feedback to finesse the decay behaviour IRONIZE This special m
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Solid State Logic SSL 4K B SSL
PRE-AMP Activate the preamp emulation and use the gain-compensated control to adjust the processing depth METERS By default, you get RMS and peak input and output meters SOFTWARE EXTRAS These include compressor mix, output trim, undo/redo and presets
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Synchro Arts RePitch £178
MACRO PRESETS Select a macro to apply broad overall pitch correction MAGNET Select this option and use Alt + cursor to snap pitch changes to the scale PITCH OR LEVEL Choose the appropriate view for your task MACRO SETTINGS Edit the behaviour of the m
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Soundware Round-up
Top-tier vocal pack for house and techno tracks needing a little heat. The singing sounds inside come in both loop and individual stem formats and cover everything from lead lines, riffs, melodies, and light paddy chords to a wealth of other toasty t
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Soundware Round-up
These nutters have gone patch-happy with a Pulsar-23 analogue drum machine to bring you a monster collection of one-shots, loops, and pre-mapped kits for all your fave DAWs. Inspired sounds abound in this expertly crafted collection, with a whole hos
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Free Software Best Of The Year: 9 Free Plugins!
It’s a very special end of the year issue and we’re celebrating all things 2022 by giving away some of our best bits – in this case, it’s nine of the best of our free plugins of 2022! As you very probably know, here at Computer Music we are big on gi
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Best of 2022: Samples!
Back in April 2022 we were travelling north to the frozen wastes of Scandinavia to cash in on the success of a whole genre of dark and twisted murder mysteries. Both of our sampling experts, Groove Criminals and Cyclick Samples, came up with packs of
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Next issue CONTROL YOURSELF
We look at the future of hardware controlling your software. How to do it, the best products on the market, and the future of touchscreens, MPE and everything else that’s control-based. It’s the issue designed for the control freak in you… Two free b
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