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Free Drum VST: CM-505 well almost.
Another great reason to get Computer Music magazine is the CM-505.
‘The CM-505 is a 24 note-polyphonic VST drum synthesizer. The instrument is designed specifically for creating synthetic drum sounds; no samples are used to create its sounds, not even a single cycle. The sounds created by the CM-505 have their roots in classic analogue drum machines. Although the CM-505 can replicate many of the sounds of these classic analogue drum machines, it also extends them into new sonic territory.’
The CM-505 comes bundled with loads of other free vst plugins on the disc that comes free with Computer Music every month.
Also the articles, reviews and tutorials make the magazoine worth it’s cover price alone.
The DVD disc crammed with lot’s of music making goodies just makes the magazine a great buy.
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Music Tech Magazine
DAW Masterclass
Getting to know your DAW better will not only help you make music more effectively, it can also spark your creativity. Mark Cousins and Hollin Jones show you around in this 13-page special feature.
Ten Minute Masters
Step Sequencers
Despite having only a few notes at their disposal, step sequencers are still an essential tool for electronic music production. We explain why.
Condenser Microphones
Condenser microphones are a popular choice within the studio, but what difference does the capsule design make? Grant Bridgeman goes beneath the grille.
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The seventhMusic Tech Focus edition is on sale now. This 132-page special edition magazine concentrates purely on Guitar Technology and features:
- 132 pages of pure Guitar Technology
- Recording electric, acoustic and bass guitars
- Live performance and hardware recording
- Getting started, choosing the right software and emulation
- Compression, delay, distortion and mixing and loads more
- PLUS – Free DVD with full version NI Guitar Rig Go, 120 minutes of video tutorial, plug-in demos and all the workshop resources
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
by John Lydon, Kent Zimmerman, and Keith Zimmerman.
The Guardian, January 31, 2004
‘Rotten… captures the rancid flavour of Lydon’s punk and pre-punk life… a good read’
Kerrang!, January 24, 2004
‘Lydon’s story is one of struggle and an almost foolhardy courage… for sheer eye-of-the-storm authenticity, this is hard to beat.’
Untidy Music Review>>>>
Being a huge fan of John Lydon, I’ve wanted to read this book for years.
Yet for some reason I’ve avoided doing so and can’t put my finger on why.
My admiration for the former Sex Pistols and PiL front man goes beyond music,
It’s his ethos, his compassion and his passion and his pure bloody pithe…
Recent controvercies and butter adverts aside (oh come on Racist?
And why should he not make some bleedin money for once?).
Anyways I finally got this book as a present and read it pretty much straight away.
I love the way it’s written, taking a completely honest stance on all the events, and even allowing
fellow travellers to say their peace on the same events is a fantastic way of giving the reader
a real minds eys of what it was like in the mid 70’s punk boom…
There’s also the way he talks about music, his parents and his friends…
If you’re a fan of music read this book,
If you’re a fan of punk read this book,
If you want a snapshot of 70’s britain read this book.
Books On Recording
For the past few years I’ve been reading up on all aspects of recording,mixing and mastering.
The following books cover all of the aspects of home recording,
some are written from the view point of the musician working out side of pc recording.
In my opinion the techniques can be brought over to the PC realm.
read more below…
As a musician who has worked with 4-Track and 8 Track cassette studios
and worked with Sonar, Cubase and Reaper I can honestly say that these
books give you everything you need.
It is not necessary to buy all. Each book has it’s unique style.
To start with I recommend either Guerilla Home Recording,
or Home Recording For Musicians….
Both books are ideal and contain just about everything you’d need.
For more advanced information the following books are for more advanced information.
Especially my favourite Mastering Audio – the art and the science by Bob Katz.
To be honest not a neccesity, just a bloody good book and an absolute eye opener.
My goto book when my head gets cloudy with all aspects of mastering.
It teaches you to think not to just do. And the way Bob Katz writes helps,
he doesn’t talk in reams of jargon and treat it like it’s a secret society.
He’s open, funny and immensely helpful.
The next few books are part of my library, they help when I need to understand something.
Each book is pretty much the same in content but come at the problem/solution in different ways.
I find it helpful to have many references, you may not and may need a definitive book.
To be honest I don’t think there is one.