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Epic Grooves for Chillout, Scores & EDM IK Multimedia Orchestral Percussion A wide range of expressive percussion instruments await you in this month‘s Software Highlight. With 23 playable instruments and 25 loop instruments, Orchestral Percussion for SampleTank 4 CS has everything you need to add symphonic intensity to your tracks. The included 102 MIDI patterns featuring crescendos and rolls help spice up your epic rhythms. Download: see page 9 | Info: www.ikmultimedia.com win | mac High-end vocals for your tracks! Audified ToneSpot Voice Express Without question, vocals are the most important musical element in most songs. Due in no small part to the vast dynamics of the human voice, giving vocals a professional sound that carries through in a dense mix is an art in itself. Wouldn‘t it be cool to have a tool that simplifies this…

The common thread: Beat issue 09/2022 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. Portrait: Friederike Bernhardt aka Moritz Fasbender If you come across the name Moritz Fasbender, you probably assume it‘s a male artist, and you‘re very wrong, because it‘s one of the pseudonyms of the Leipzig based composer Friederike Bernhardt, who made a name for herself before the Moritz Fasbender album release „13 Rabbits“ with musical works for…

HOW DOES IT WORK? The rules are quite simple and contain only three points: 1 It‘s easy to take part: Grab the sparkling wine samples at www.MeinHomestudio.de/Beat200/ and create an emotional moment of no more than 15 seconds. At least three of the samples must be used.. 2 Then, film your DAW with your smartphone or a camera while you play back your result. Give us a glimpse of what you did with the sounds. The quality is secondary, it‘s about the music, emotion and your creative approach to the sounds.. 3 Upload the video on one of the following social media platforms and tag us. If you don‘t use social media, email the video to redaktion@beat.de. And then cross your fingers! With a little luck, you‘ll be one of the 20 winners.. The BEAT…

Standalone DJ controller w/ 4 toggles from Reloop Reloop has brought out a new flagship 4-channel hybrid DJ controller, the Mixon 8 Pro, which is compatible with Serato DJ Pro and Algoriddim djay Pro AI DJ software programs. The controller, with dual audio interface, intends to shine not only by its new jogwheel design with integrated displays, but in the foreground are the more technical innovations. It is the only controller on the market with an effect toggle switch for each channel. Eight performance modes are available on the pads for each channel. In addition, each channel can change the sound using the 3-band equalizer and sound color filter effect (high pass / low pass). Thanks to its streaming capability, you can choose from over 30 million songs through Tidal, Soundcloud,…

Henning Verlage – Star Producer & Lecturer Having become known as the Producer for Unheilig, Henning Verlage is still a soughtafter Producer, Songwriter and Mixing Engineer. Beat / Among other things, you‘ll be spotlighting the production of Unheilig‘s „Sea of Lights“? Henning / Yes, „Lichtermeer“ is a current production from the latest posthumously released Unheilig album „Lichterland“. Even if it‘s specifically about this title, the song is exemplary for the general way I approach a production, the arrangement and the overall sound „in the box“, meaning it‘s mainly about workflow, session organization, plug-ins, libraries and VST instruments used, which can also be applied to other productions, DAWs and projects. Beat / What makes a good Master Class for you? Henning / It should be entertaining, show a lot of hands-on and, hopefully, be inspiring. I…

Produce complete songs at a professional level in your home studio: What was unthinkable a few years ago has fortunately long been possible thanks to powerful hardware and software. However, you need to acquire an enormous amount of knowledge in a wide variety of areas, from songwriting, arranging and sound design to recording, mixing and mastering, acoustics and the use of hardware and software for music production. Therefore we give you - together with experts from all the mentioned areas - all the answers to the most important questions about music production. On this page we start directly with the topic of songwriting. In a successful song, groove, harmony, melody, arrangement and lyrics form a unit. A basic knowledge of music theory can be a help in songwriting, but much more…