Beat English 03/2022

150 EDM Sounds à la Tiësto IK Multimedia Future Synths This month‘s software highlight, Future Synths, guarantees pure inspiration for Trance, House, Techno, EDM & more. Behind it is a multi-faceted collection influenced by the big room sound of club greats like Tiësto, Hardwell and Afrojack. There are 150 rousing synth instruments on board for the IK Multimedia SampleTank 4 CS sample player, as well as 150 stylish MIDI patterns. Download: see page 9 Info: www.ikmultimedia.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 example, 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…

The common thread: Beat issue 03/2022 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 ideasand 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. Studio Insights: Nightmares On Wax Due to health problems and an involuntary forced DJ break, George Evelyn, the artist of Nightmares On Wax, was forced to completely reevaluate his life and likewise his music. Danny Turner brought more on this. Page 54 Review: Dreadbox Nymphes With Nymphes, the likeable little company presents a synthesizer with a quite comparable concept…

Learn from the master – DJ controller by Tiësto Grammy-nominated Producer and world-star DJ Tiësto has teamed up with music provider Beatport to develop his own DJ controller - The Next Beat. Entry-level DJs are targeted as the main focus group. This Bluetooth-enabled controller features two decks, each with a jog wheel, and a 2-channel mixer. Internally, there is even a 4-channel sound card. Per channel, a 3-band tone control and a filter can be used on the mixer. Not only can hot cues and loops be set using the eight performance pads per deck, but samples can also be fired off. Up to three effects can also be activated on each deck. A dual headphone output and a microphone jack are built in. On the software side, the controller is…

Synths, synths, synths … and even more synths. Whether you‘re an enthusiast, serious producer, nerd, power user, enthusiast, freak, or a mixture of all: The basis of every studio where electronic music is created are synthesizers. From small to large, old to new, hardware or software … we simply can‘t do without them. And why should we? Tweaking the controls and enjoying the sound brings a lot of joy and, in the best case, even some income. These are already enough reasons for us to dedicate this special completely to machines and plug-ins from virtual to analog. Clever sound design But simply owning instruments does not make music. Rather, they want to be played and - at least to some extent - mastered in order to achieve the best possible output. Most…

1 Two basses … the song offers two of them: The first one is a relatively classic 16th note bass à la psytrance, while the second one serves as a kind of stab that is used regularly, especially after the break, to give the song more drive. Since we want a strong foundation, we create both with the SE-3X (alternatively Thorn Solo). 2 Three oscillators For the stab, a fat basic sound is important, which we achieve by using all three oscillators, the first two of which provide sawtooth and square, respectively, while the third provides the triangle waveform. We also tune OSC 2 up 12 semitones. We drive the volume of OSC 1 and 3 to almost full blast, OSC 2 only to the 57%. 3 Sound design But especially ringmod at full power…

1 Drama queen The hookline of „The Game“ is announced fragmentarily in the breakdown and really takes off after the drop. As is often the case, simplicity is the key here: the sequence is an arpeggio of 16th notes with the notes D, E, F and G, creating a dramatic buildup. In every second round, G is replaced by a lower C and an A. 2 Peak / Thorn Solo So that the arpeggio doesn‘t just run through, the sequence starts with a 16th an octave lower and ends with a 16th an octave higher. The exact structure can be found in the MIDI file in the download part for the special. Much more important, however, is the sound we build with the Novation Peak. Alternatively, you can use our Thorn Solo. 3 Three…