ISSUE 322 JULY 2023
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LIKE A PRO ARRANGE TRACKS
Expert advice to make your tracks have maximum impact
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/expert guides 40 SYNTH
MASTERCLASS Dave Gale presents a guide to making retro strings
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MASTERCLASS Jon Musgrave on gain staging when mixing
16 ARRANGE LIKE A PRO Our main feature goes deep on arrangement, with tutorials and pro advice on structuring your tracks
30 -14 ARRANGEMENT TIPS A cherry-picked selection of some of CM’s tried-andtested methods for quick ire arrangement building
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12 SUKI SOU The musician, sound designer and radio presenter lets us into her studio, where she likes to bend the rules!
32 -TOM SALTA Video game composer turned plugin developer Tom Salta bigs up his new plugin, Auto-Bounce
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Inter view
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GRANDJEAN The award-winning engineer tells all on her work with Stormzy
Essentials
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Reviews 58 CHERRY AUDIO
MERCURY-6 60 JMG SOUND
RETRONAUT 62 DIGIT MUSIC
CMPSR 64 IMAGE-LINE FL
STUDIO 21 66 TOONTRACK
EZKEYS SYNTHWAVE 68 SONORA
CINEMATIC HARMONIC BLOOM 70 POLYVERSE
SUPERMODAL 72 W.A. PRODUCTION
KSHMR REVERB 74 SPECTRASONICS
TWISTED TREES 76 SOUNDWARE
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