Ausgabe 08/2025
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Ausgabe 08/2025
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No More Bad Mixes! 33 Efficient Pro-Level Hacks in Beat 08/25
For some, it's pure horror; for others, an intuitive stylistic device: mixing is a topic that affects all of us. Whether during a studio jam, live act, or mixdown, in the end, all tracks should shine and the mix should hit hard. Fun fact: this can be achieved without endless sessions or tedious listening in a loop! In the Masterclass, we show you the fun side of mixing and how you can arrange and perform entire tracks "on the fly" — with desktop hardware, mixing software, a modular mixer, or via an app from your couch. Either way, your tracks will get the power they deserve. The audience will hear the difference!
Hands-on: 10 Mixing Tricks Off the Beaten Path
Today, music production is more than ever a balancing act between technology, creativity, and a flood of opinions. Anyone who regularly frequents YouTube, forums, or social networks knows: there is no shortage of seemingly "indispensable" mixing techniques and production myths. Everyone has their method – and everyone thinks theirs is the best. Yet, music production is too versatile for there to be one perfect way. That's why we're not giving you a dogma, but a practical cheat sheet. The ten tips are meant to help you optimize your workflow, keep an overview, and purposefully develop your sound.
FREE with Beat 08/25: UJAM UFX Delay – When Echoes Tell Stories
Forget boring repetitions – with the UFX Delay, our software highlight of the month from UJAM, every echo becomes a creative statement! Musical delay modes and flexible effects make this plug-in a dream tool for sound design. Whether detuned repeats, octave jumps, or rhythmically filtered echoes – UFX Delay is delay, filter, multi-effect, and surprise machine all in one. Ready for new soundscapes?
Studio Stress Test: Behringer 2-XM – Two Oberheim Synths in One Housing
Behringer combines two synthesizers inspired by the Oberheim SEM in the 2-XM, effectively recreating the Two Voice. While you have to do without a keyboard and sequencer in a direct comparison, the 2-XM comes with a patch bay for additional connections and can also be integrated into a Eurorack modular system.
4 Mixing Templates for Your DAW in the Magazine Downloads
Our four mixing templates for the most common DAWs provide practical starting points for important mixing tasks. And to help you prepare your tracks for Apple Music, Spotify, and others, we explain in a workshop what you need to pay attention to. The templates and workshops can be found in the magazine downloads.
Discover JakoJako: The Language of Emotions
It was only supposed to be a vacation. But then JakoJako's trip to Vietnam turned into a source of inspiration. On her album "Tet 41," the traditional, spectacularly colorful Moon Festival becomes the center of a hypnotic-elegiac sound trip, where impressions and moods float weightlessly before the mind's eye.
Flexible and Surprising Delay Effects: The UFX Delay, our magazine highlight in full version, excels with its flexible and surprising delay effects. Whether creative repeats or filtered echoes, it makes your sounds instantly more unique and lively.
Voxmotive for Magical Vocals: With Voxmotive, infuse your vocals with magic, featuring suitable phrases for ethno, ambient, or cinematic projects.
Expansion Pack "Morphologies": Bring a burst of creativity to your studio with our "Morphologies" expansion pack for Zampler and Akai’s MPC series. The 60 patches from the Future Retro Vectra Synth offer analog textures, futuristic digital sounds, and sophisticated morphing patches.
Premium Sound Archive: We’ve compiled a premium sound archive featuring heavy beats for Afro House & Techno from ZTEKNO. Echo Sound Works contributes various packs with punchy kick drums and percussion. Additionally, Darren Curtis provides royalty-free music.
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