SOUND ON SOUND
AstroLab puts Arturia’s considerable collection of classic instruments into a single stage keyboard.
Producer and Engineer Tim Bran talks us through his early career at Island Records, being invited to tour as a session musician, recording London Grammar and setting up his own collaborative tech and studio projects.
The drum machine has progressed massively since the days of the home organ player. Here Oli Freke takes us through a brief history, with lots of audio examples.
In the first of a two-part series, Eddie Bazil explains how some simple adjustments in your DAW will help you achieve more bounce in your drum beats, by adding syncopation, swing and dynamism.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. State Machine’s designers suggest that Slow Drift's focus is on ethereal textures, though in reality it offers up a wide selection of preset styles, much as a hardware synth might do.
With a Transient Designer, a de‑esser and an unusually versatile input section, there’s more to SPL’s recording channel than most.
Neve’s latest 1073 variant bridges the gap between microphone and computer.
