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Make drums & basses crack! Excite Audio Lifeline Expanse Lite Five great-sounding effects are waiting to enhance your tracks in this month‘s software highlight, Lifeline Expanse Lite. With the modules Format, Dirt, Re-Amp, Width and Space, this plug-in from Excite Audio masters a wide range of effects between subtle enhancement and brutal distortion, charming vintage sounds and convincing room simulations. Download: see page 9 | Info: excite-audio.com | pluginboutique.com win | mac All serial numbers securely accessible: The Beat Serial Center To ensure that none of your serial numbers are lost in the future (for instance, in the event of a new installation, Outlook crash or disk crash), you can now conveniently manage them online. The advantages are obvious: The editorial team can send you targeted software updates, you have access to all serials at any…

The common thread: Beat issue 02/2023 For many years, Beat has been inspiring its readers not only with practical and musical topics, but above all with the tight integration of editorial content. From the very beginning, Beat has been about creating, about the structured building of ideas and the common thread - in the magazine as well as in the tracks. This navigator shows you the highlights of this issue andallows you to see the big picture. Discovered: Craig Armstrong Other albums should be more successful. But few capture the zeitgeist of the late ‚90s better than Craig Armstrong‘s „As if to Nothing.“ It not only featured U2 singer Bono or drum-n-bass master Photek, but also fused electronic and orchestral passages almost seamlessly. Armstrong celebrates his masterpiece with a double LP edition -…

USB condenser microphone for podcasters and musicians from RØDE To record vocals or speech in the home studio, whether for music productions or podcasts, a professional condenser microphone is an advantage. This is what the new NT-USB+ from RØDE is designed to do. In addition, the microphone is also intended for acoustic instruments. It is equipped with a low-noise preamplifier and has a small 1/2“ condenser capsule. The polar pattern is set to cardioid. The limiting sound pressure level is 118 dB. The frequency range is between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. Instead of an XLR jack, a USB connection is provided, ensuring 24-bit and 48 kHz resolution. A headphone output is also located on the microphone. In addition, thanks to the internal DSP chip, a high-pass filter, noise gate and…

Music theory seems intimidating and complex to many, but once you have a basic understanding of the fundamentals, it can help you take your musical knowledge to the next level. In the following pages, we‘ll give you practical answers to the most important questions and show you how to write catchy chord progressions and memorable melodies using the software and hardware you‘re most familiar with. And if you want to deepen your knowledge of music theory and practice, we recommend suitable courses, training and study programs. What can you learn in 2 hours? Of course, you won‘t become an absolute music theory crack within 2 hours, but you don‘t have to because in a short time you can already learn the basics that will help you write more rousing chord progressions and…

Lesson 1: What are notes & scales? Everyone has probably heard what a note is, but its connection with vibrations and frequencies may not be familiar to everyone. There are twelve notes on our most familiar staff. In our most well-known system, there are twelve notes. Learn here how these notes are created and what frequencies and scales have to do with them. Let‘s go! Lesson 2: What are chords & progressions? As already mentioned in step 8, notes by themselves do not create emotion, but several notes played at the same time do. That brings us to chords. Different chords in a row are called progression and not only create more emotion, but also invite you to hum along. Now we‘ll show you how good chords and progressions are created. Lesson 3: The…

1 What is Autotonic? In a nutshell, Autotonic provides the notes of a selectable scale distributed on the white keys of the keyboard. The black keys are only used to switch scales. So you can happily hit the (white) keys and don‘t have to worry about any mistakes, but can concentrate fully on the combinations and moods of the different scales. 2 MIDI-Settings If you use Autotonic as a standalone app, open the MIDI I/O menu and select the desired MIDI inputs and outputs. If you use the program together with your DAW, open it. Autotonic provides its own MIDI ports to plug into a DAW. Create a new MIDI track, select your MIDI keyboard as input and Autotonic MIDI In as output. 3 Set ports Note: Some DAWs, for example Live, offer All Ins…