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Auddict’s innovative orchestral strings library marks the legacy of a top London studio.

We look at how to improve our workflow with the magic use of key commands, also known as hot‑keys or keyboard shortcuts.

Multitrack Recording In Reason Reason is more than capable of traditional multitrack recording. So here we consider how you might run a full tracking project. As Reason is not my only DAW I tend to think of it as a virtual studio for creating music in the box. However, Reason is more than capable of traditional multitrack recording. Back in SOS March 2017 issue we explored ways to record a guitar in Reason. This time, let’s take this much further and consider how you might run a full trackin...

Pro Tools & Melodyne Essential Melodyne Essential now comes bundled with Pro Tools 2020.11, so lets explore what it offers. After what seemed like a long period of what I’d describe as ‘tweaks’ from Avid, November 2020 was a month of satisfyingly significant developments. There was of course the release of Pro Tools | Carbon, Avid’s first piece of in‑house audio hardware for roughly a decade and a return to a type of product many believed Avid were no longer active in. Carbon has...

Earthworks Icon Pro Earthworks throw their hat into the podcasting ring, with the chic and refined Icon Pro. Lockdown has seen a boom in podcast consumption and production, and microphone brands of all hues have responded by releasing new models aimed at online content creators. Some have simply rebranded OEM mics as their own, others have taken their existing models and swapped XLR connectivity for a USB port, and a few have come up with brand‑new designs to appeal to vloggers, streamers ...

Talkback: Dani Bennett Spragg Despite still being resident at London’s Hoxa HQ, 24 year‑old British‑American engineer Dani Bennett Spragg spends much time at Toast Studios as accomplice to legendary analogue obsessive Craig Silvey. Recipient of the 2019 MPG Breakthrough Engineer of the Year award, Bennett Spragg began her career as a teenager, assisting on records by Kurt Vile, Foals and Trent Reznor. She soon went on to work as a fully-fledged engineer with such artists as Baxter Dury,...

Acustica Audio Gainstation The kings of dynamic convolution take on producer Mike Dean’s signal chain. Gainstation is a collaboration between Italian plug‑in developers Acustica Audio and Studio DMI, this time involving producer Mike Dean (Kanye West, Jay Z, Travis Scott, Drake). Described as a “distortion and creative sound mangling device”, it’s Acustica’s first dedicated distortion plug‑in and its aim is to provide a quick and easy tool for adding “power, juice and dimens...

Recording an instrument you’ve not encountered before can seem daunting. Here’s a rule of thumb that guarantees a decent result every time.

Forum Admin » Mon Jan 25, 2021 6:09 pm Bill S wrote:The example PDF version isn’t great. You have to scroll down through every page, there are no hot links to articles from the contents page, and the ability to skip an article by swiping left is gone. Youre talking purely here about the Full Issue PDF? The app most definitely lets you swipe left/right to move to the next article/advert and previous ones, or use the hamburger menu which shows only articles. We simply dont have spare producti...

Talkback: Marcus Hamblett Over the last decade, Brighton‑based producer and multi‑instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett has appeared on albums by everyone from Bear’s Den to This Is The Kit. He now sits among the staple personnel of Justin Vernon’s ever‑developing PEOPLE festival movement, with the track ‘Stavesynth’ — performed on a software instrument Hamblett used to turn the voices of folk trio the Staves into a keyboard instrument — appearing on Vernon and Aaron Dessner�...