Future Music Issue 226 May 2010.(DVD) | 2.15 GB
INTERVIEWS
In the studio with Sean Tyas.
This month FM headed into the Swiss Alps to track down the rising star of Trance Sean Tyas. We spent the day in his studio as he took us through the basic process of making a remix and explained some key elements to his most popular tracks.
TECHNIQUE
Build Ups and Drops: Dan JD73 Goldman investigates what makes them work and explains some of the key musical devices that can help take your tracks to the next level.
Cubase: Bruce Aisher takes a look at using loops in Cubase, and spends some quality time with LoopMash.
Logic: Jono Buchanan's here to guide you through the basics of Mainstage.
Ableton Live: Martin Delaney gives you a few good reasons why velocity, one of MIDI's most basic features, matters in Ableton Live.
Knowledge Base: Sampling 2. Greg Scarth looks at sampling techniques.
Knowledge Base: Quantisation. Quantisation can fix your sloppy timing, but can it cause problems of its own? Greg Scarth investigates.
SAMPLES
Noise Boxes' and Trance
This months samples are quite a different pairing, we have an amazing collection from Groove Criminals who bring you a selection of crazy sounds produced by some crazy instruments. We also have a huge selection of Kontakt instruments for creating Trance from Cyclick Samples.
In our Retro collection this month we have a great collection of Italo Disco kits.
REVIEWS
As always we have audio demos of the main items of gear reviewed in this month's issue.
To listen to the demos just click on the 'sound' link on the left hand side and this will play in your default audio player.
In some cases there are so many examples there is a "folder" link instead. Just as in other sections this opens direct on the disc allowing you to get all the files.
So get stuck in
DEMOS
We have taken the Future Music Reader Demos to the next level. Each month we will now offer 10 reader tracks for you to listen to.
The top 4 are the main featured artists and each get their own section. You can hear the track and contact the artist via email directly from the page. We will also endeavor to include artwork wherever possible.
The best of the rest are the other 6 tracks, the order of the names relates to the order of the tracks on the left hand side of the interface.
All the details including the entry form can be found in the magazine.
EXTRA
Extras:
In this section we will be hosting a selection of preview samples from the fantastic Sounds to Sample website as well as other goodies.
Each month we will have samples from six of their collections exclusively to give away for you to use in your music. This is a great way to check out what the latest offers and selections are on offer.
This is the DVD to accompany the already uploaded Future Music Magazine (PDF) which can be found here: http://proaudiotorrents.org/details.php?id=21691