Beat English 05/2022

More fun, more groove & finish beats faster! Playbeat Lite + 88 XXL drum kits Playbeat Lite is the small version of the world‘s smartest groove machine: a plug-in with huge fun potential that lets you conjure up infectious and original beats for any type of electronic music in an instant. But that‘s not all, Playbeat also allows you to create an infinite number of exciting groove variations in real time. Included: 88 kits with fresh and powerful drum sounds. Download: see page 9 | Info: www.audiomodern.com win | mac 2000 Sounds à la Avicii, Zedd & van Dyk SynthMaster 2 Player Zedd, Martin Garrix, Avicii, Tiësto, Armin Van Buren, Axwell, Knife Party, Laidback Luke, Paul van Dyk, Robin Schulz… the list of SynthMaster users reads like a Who‘s Who of the Club Scene.…

The common thread: Beat issue 05/2022 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 and allows you to see the big picture. Studio Insights: Wrangler Electro supergroup Wrangler has reunited for their brilliant new album, „A Situation.“Hamish Mackintosh explored the myriad synth delights to be found at keyboardist Benge‘s Cornish headquarters. Page 52 Review: Sonicware Liven XFM Even if they are a bit overshadowed by analog synthesizers, a few compact synthesizers with FM sound generation have come onto the…

Simply super – Get your SUPERBOOTH22 tickets now! Under the motto „BE SOOPER - Electric Get to Gather“, SUPERBOOTH heralds the advance sale of tickets for the International Trade Fair for Electronic Musical Instruments. The fair will take place between May 12 and 14, 2022 at the FEZ building in Berlin. On these days, there will also be exhibition tents, bungalows, concert and presentation stages on the grounds around the FEZ. In the main building and around it, 150 exhibitors with electronic music instruments have presented themselves so far. The anniversary event SUPERBOOTH22 will be extended for the first time by SOOPERgrail, a trade fair for guitar enthusiasts. Techno and electronic music are the basis of SUPERBOOTH, but the symbiosis with the craft of other areas opens many new doors. A one-day…

With our online service, plugins-samples.com, we have set up a digital subscription service through which you can obtain BEAT in digital form. This includes all monthly software content as downloads and the digital magazine in German and English. The two annual subscriptions also include access to the complete BEAT archive with over 100 issues currently available. The software content includes several gigabytes of VST/AU plug-ins, instruments, effects, audio software, samples, loops, sound banks, and so on… Just „everything a producer needs!“. The monthly editions usually come with two plug-in highlights, which are either BEAT versions with slightly stripped-down features, but also sometimes include full versions of commercial software. The three available subscription models differ in duration and price, starting at 4.99 Euro per month. The models give you access to three to…

With subgenres as diverse as deep, minimal, tech, Tropical, Tribal, Disco, bass, and Future House, House is an enormously versatile genre of music. However, all sub-styles have something in common: the pumping four-to-thefloor rhythm, which already set the pulse of the first house productions from the USA in the mid-eighties. Influenced by Disco, Hip-Hop, Electro-Funk and Electro-Pop, the creative use of drum machines and synthesizers gave rise to a rhythm-driven and enormously danceable musical style. At the same time, house was commercially successful early on and left a clear mark on the mainstream in terms of sound aesthetics and production methods. And this is still the case today: The sound of countless hits, for example, is influenced by the commercial, radio-friendly version of deep house. Between dancefloor and charts Without question, no…

1 Straight beat The 118 BPM fast beat of the hit relies on style-typical drum sounds. It‘s a good thing that there are countless samples in the magazine downloads [1] with our software highlight Playbeat Lite. The beat is kept simple, with the bass drum on all quarter counts and the clap sound on every second beat. In the chorus, open hi-hats are added on the even eighth-note beats. 2 Bass: Oscillators The most concise musical element of „The Motto“is the bassline. Also the bass sound is deep house typical. With Xfer Records Serum [2] we can definitely do that! First activate the voicing mode mono. We select the wavetable “digital > gritty” for both oscillators and tune the first one an octave and the second one two octaves lower. 3 Wavetable position The unison…