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Ausgabe 07/2025

Create Stories, Not Just Songs! 18 Tutorials on Arrangement, Dynamics & Articulation Imagine yourself conducting an entire orchestra, the symphony of your dreams in your hands. What if you could unleash this power not just in a concert hall, but right at your desk? Welcome to the fascinating world of sample and orchestral libraries, where the boundaries between digital production and acoustic reality blur. Our masterclass is your key to unlocking these soundscapes, allowing you to create everything from epic film scores to much more emotional tracks. The key to more soul in your songs! For More Feeling in Your Tracks: 25 Realistic Instruments Reviewed When it comes to bringing realistic orchestral arrangements to life directly in your DAW, there are basically two approaches to choose from: phrase-based libraries or melodically playable multi-sample instruments.

But which way best supports your workflow and your musical vision best? You'll find the answers in the latest masterclass. Grain Reverb for Goosebumps Sounds – Things Texture by AudioThings for Free Drones Deluxe for Ambient Looking for an easy way to transform your sounds into captivating Ambient landscapes? Then our software highlight of the month is just what you need: AudioThing Things Texture combines a granular reverb effect, pitch-shifting, and mid/side processing. The result is a versatile sound design tool, ideal for dense textures and drones, and much more! Test: Moog Muse – Who is The Über-Synth Really For? A polyphonic synthesizer from Moog is already something special. When it is also presented for the first time without advance notice in the Halftime Show of the Super Bowl, increased interest is certain. But can the Muse also meet the high expectations in practice, or was it just a lot of show about nothing?

Die BEAT Community: Show Off Your Studio! „We‘re happy to present our beautiful Paderborn studio here! We are a wonderful studio community, consisting on the one hand, of Stephan Spieker and Jason Durrant and their two musical projects „Flauschig“ and „The Teachers“; and on the other hand, Jens Nolte, who, in addition to his musical output with „Tiger & Phoenix,“ offers a professional Mixing and Mastering service with Oliver Berens through the platform Acoustisound.“ Hands-on: Recreate Top-Ten Sounds: With Shadu And Il Est Vilaine The desire to have THAT ONE sound at home, from that one track you can‘t get out of your head, unites us as producers. Hear it once, turn knobs, done. But transferring what you heard to the right parameters with the right values takes practice. At Dope Tracks, we show you two sounds from current hot songs every month – this month „Surf Rider by Il Est Vilaine and „Contigo“ by Shadu.