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The Secret Weapon for Drums & Vocals With Tape Echo, IK Multimedia has created a virtual monument to the legendary Maestro Echoplex EP-3 from 1969. It recreates the distinctive vintage sound of the tape echo device with all its peculiarities in detai

Whoever sets up their own home studio nowadays usually does so in rooms that have to fulfill other, usually higher-level functions. Whether it is the studio corner in the study or the desktop studio on a desk in the bedroom - everywhere you have to m

Beat / Your debut album „Mountain“ was released in 2012, followed by „Seventeen“ in 2017, and with „All Right Now”, your third album will be released in 2020. What did you do differently than on the previous albums? Andreas/ This time it was clear to

Beat / How much distance do you already have from „Flur“? Did you have time to reflect it yet? Martin/ It‘s two months old now. I often need the mirror of other people who work with me in order to feel it too. I try to get the music out of myself as

Beat / What does an average day in your life currently look like? Hannes Bieger/ I tend to work too much. For me it was, therefore, a big step to separate everyday life and work. When I moved to Berlin, I had a small studio in an apartment that I sha

Tape Echo can transform even simple synthesizer note sequences into hypnotic ambient sequences. You can try this out using the example of the audio file „Analog Synth-Seq“ [1]. Load Tape Echo as an insert effect and activate the BPM Sync mode. Set th

For Prince, decadence was certainly not a foreign word. In the peak years of his fame, his conditions for the backstage area included: purple painted walls, a limousine to drive him from the dressing room to the stage, and the „absolutely necessary“

Despite almost instant success with quirky tech house classics such as Revox and Mr Dry, and touring the globe with DJ residencies at world-renowned clubs including WOMB, Fabric and Watergate, London-based producer Tim Green has always harboured plan

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The Play series has been significantly expanded in Komplete 13 Ultimate and now includes Modular Icons, Butch Vig Drums, Lo-Fi Glow and Cloud Supply in addition to Analog Dreams, Hybrid Keys and Ethereal Earth from the previous version of Komplete. T

The basic idea of IK Multimedia MixBox is that you can combine up to 8 effect modules in a virtual effects rack. For this purpose, MixBox provides 70 effects, most of which are borrowed from the well-known T-RackS, AmpliTube and SampleTank programs,

The ACID loop building kit, developed by Sonic Foundry and later sold to Sony, is over 20 years old. As early as 1994, Magix released its best-known software, the Music Maker, which has been controversially discussed since then. The two products are

In April 2009, Native Instruments introduced Maschine, a combination of audio software and a perfectly tuned hardware controller. Over the years, not only has the software been continuously enhanced, but the hardware has also been redesigned. Maschin

When Englishman Manuel Caballero presented his self-developed virtual-analog debut synthesizer Exodus Valkyrie at Superbooth 2018, he managed a genuine surprising coup. The sound synthesis and the design were reminiscent of the popular first-generati

Many sound manglers have often been jealous of the sound power of the feedback of their fellow guitar players. Comparable and, in many cases, superior results are often just a jack cable away. While guitarists take advantage of the resonances of the

Beat / For a long time, I only knew you as a producer. I wasn‘t so aware that you have also had a successful career as a DJ for a long time. Cora Novoa/ It‘s funny, I actually started as a producer. That was quite a while ago. I had just arrived in M

After first unpacking, the four-track Looperboard appears truly magnificent. At over five kilos, it is stable and solidly built and seems to be prepared for the rough everyday life on stage. The focus of the user interface is the high-contrast 7-inch

Bodzin, Monolink, Umek are three of the most influential Melodic Techno producers. Together, they not only have high positions on the club charts, but they also have high musical output. Melodic House and Techno are the hottest styles of the electron