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Ausgabe 06/2023

PRODUCER TRICKS: 40 Boosters for your tracks with BEAT 06/23

 How do I find musical inspiration and how do I bring my ideas from my head into the DAW? How can I increase my musical productivity? How do I turn loops into a song and how do I develop stirring chord progressions and melodies? For everyone who hates instructions, who finds specialist recording books too dry and who finds long searches on YouTube just too stupid, we provide the best power tips on the topics of inspiration, songwriting, production, mixing, sound design and arrangement to make producing faster and easier to handle and more fun!

For Free: Modular Mixing Giant Lifeline Console Lite by Excite Audio

Analog warmth for your vocals? Easy! LoFi sound for your synth sounds? Piece of cake! More punch for your drum bus? You bet! Our software highlight, Excite Audio Lifeline Console Lite can do all that and much more. This mix giant is equipped with five effect modules that can be freely arranged and will enhance your tracks from now on!

SUPERBOOTH23: The official guide – plus huge gear giveaway!

A feast for synth freaks! Just in time for Superbooth 2023, we‘re back with the official fair guide, in a wicked look and filled with (funny) guides to technology, cool tricks for gear and an awesome giveaway starting with the event!

Test: Roland SH-4D – the next groovebox bestseller?

After the last releases from Roland in the field of compact synthesizers and groove boxes were rather mixed in terms of quality and the variety of functions and the good sound often went hand in hand with unnecessarily compli- cated operation and some questionable design decisions, the SH-4D is an all-round positive surprise. The new model concept offers quick access to the sound generation and allows both simple and complex sounds, which can be directly adjusted with the numerous controls. The effects are extensive and of high sonic quality, the sequencer convinces with simple operation and all important functions. Even without looking at the manual, we were able to create our first sounds and import patterns directly and, thanks to the built-in high-quality effects and equalizer, then refine each part almost ready for a master. The SH-4D is really fun and relatively inexpensive - what more could you want?

More free sounds: 66 Crystal Mallets, Pads & E-Pianos for Ambient & House

Have you ever had the pleasure of playing an Ensoniq SQ-1? If not, now‘s your chance. Your new soundset for Zampler and AKAI‘s MPC series offers plenty of crystalline mallet sounds, crystal clear pianos, synthetic orchestral sounds and buttery smooth pads – all perfectly suited to contemporary music, particularly to Ambient, House, R&B and Hip Hop.