ISSUE 301 NOVEMBER 2021
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/expert guides 50 VOCAL
MASTERCLASS Ashley Thorpe addresses reverb with vocals
A step back in time to see how the 1980s is influencing music today! p18 80S SPECIAL! IT’S THE 52 SYNTH MASTERCLASS Dave Gale gets ‘ghostly’ and 80s with Zebra CM
54 PRODUCTION
The Audiotent team on how macros can help with your live performances
20 80S DRUMS, BASS & ARPS The backbone of the 80s and some synth flourishes
24 80S GENRES, 80S FORMATS Tape, MIDI, trackers, pop, industrial and chiptune!
32 DUA LIPA AND THE WEEKND How the 80s sound lives on + what it takes to make
36 BUILD AN 80S STUDIO In software! Key 80s studio components made soft
/15 Questions with…
12 NOGA EREZ ‘The Israeli answer to a Björk’,
on how a crash course in Ableton Live changed her life… in more ways that one
94 BON Yerosha Windrich and Alex
Morris plus an achingly cool Pantheon of collaborators release their debut LP
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Interviews
42 PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING The rocktronica sampling boffins talk about the technology behind their incredible and distinctive sound
58 BLANCMANGE Neil Arthur on covering ABBA, working with Vince Clarke plus his amazing new album
80 PROFESSIONALS Alexey Nechaev on his score for the recent Unbound: Worlds Apart ‘Metroidvania’ platform game
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Reviews 66 KORG
COLLECTION 3 688 SPITFIRE AUDIO
HAMMERS 708 SOFTUBE
MODEL 84 728 AVID SIBELIUS
FOR MOBILE 738 MINIMAL
AUDIO RIFT 748 TORSO
ELECTRONICS TC-1 758 UVI SUPER-7 768 CINESAMPLES
O: FORBES PIPE ORGAN 788 MINI REVIEWS
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