Future Music

Future Music delivers the technique and technology behind the hits. Packed with inspiration for today’s modern musician there’s reviews of hot new gear, tons of tutorials to help you get the most out of your hardware and software, and exclusive In The Studio features where the stars take apart their tracks.

Future Music

If it ain’t broke…

IN THE ARCHIVE – UPDATED! • FM’s Sample Archive gives you over 18GB of carefully-curated, royalty-free sounds to use in your music. Here’s what’s inside…

BONUS SAMPLES • DOWNLOAD THEM NOW FROM FILESILO.CO.UK/FUTUREMUSIC

Could Sequential’s Take 5 synth be the affordable Prophet of your dreams? • Analogue meets digital in Dave Smith’s new Prophet-5-inspired poly

Steinberg’s new plugin bundle looks like an Absolute bargain

Talking Shop

KEEP YOUR KICK IN SCALE

Generate new musical ideas in Ableton Live • How to create a morphing effect for your synth sounds

J-Walk A Night On The Rocks • EastWest, 2002

Track by track with Martin Fisher

In the studio with Martin Fisher

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Jon Hopkins Music For Psychedelic Therapy • Domino

Sepehr Survivalism • Shaytoon

Aya im hole • Hyperdub

Spiritczualic Enhancement Center Carpet Album • Kryptox

SONIC DESTRUCTION • From overdriven signal paths to rhythmic malfunctions, there’s plenty of creativity to be found by doing things just a little bit wrong

Distortion vs Bitcrushing vs Wavefolding • Analogue-style distortion isn’t the only game in town. Let’s look at some variations and deviations from the style of distortion described on the previous page

QUICK TIPS

5 POWERFUL DISTORTION TOOLS

What is a ‘glitch’?

6 EXTREME SOUND DESIGN IDEAS

Keeping it lo-fi

ADD VINYL EFFECTS

What’s all the noise?

STICK TO A LANE?

GIVING AN ELECTRIC PIANO MOJO

MODULAR DOWNSAMPLING

THREE OF THE BEST

In and out of the box

Feed Me • EDM producer Jon Gooch revives his cartoonish Feed Me moniker. Danny Turner finds out how the use of live instrumentation changed his production approach

Tutara Peak Shapes Over the Moorlands • Tutara Peak, 2021

Tutara Peak’s top 5 creative tips • Harvey shares five fantastic tips to give you a creative boost

THE TRACK • Leading producers go in-depth on the sounds, ideas and techniques behind their latest releases

Exploring Akai MPC • Leo Maymind takes a detailed look at an iconic groovebox whose influence helped shape modern hip-hop and much more besides

10 ways to get more out of your MPC hardware • These tips and shortcuts will have you flying around your MPC, expert and novice alike

Controller mode: access hidden functionality • You’ll want to get deeper with this way of using the MPC when you’re ready to do your final mixdown

Liars • Dissolving the contours of rock and electronics, Danny Turner charts the making of Liars’ 10th album with Angus Andrew and Laurence Pike

Noise • With roots as far back as 1913, noise is the genre that’s also a state of mind

Three cheap ways to get into noise

Jean-Michel Jarre • The pioneering musician who introduced generations to futuristic sounds the first time around is at it again. He joins Matt Mullen to talk experiments in VR gigging, spatial audio and more…

Erica Synths and Sonic Potions LXR-02 £499 • Rob Redman braces himself for another resurrected blast from the past

Modal SKULPTsynth SE £169 • Modal are back with an update to their SKULPT synth. Bruce Aisher takes a listen to see if it can rustle up a big sound

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