New from the makers of Future Music, Computer Music and Electronic Music, the Beginner's Guide to Music Production will have you creating your own tracks in no time.
BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO MUSIC PRODUCTION • YOUR MASTERCLASS FOR RECORDING, ARRANGING AND MIXING TRACKS
Beginner’s Guide to Music Production - 5th Edition
Start here! • Your music making journey starts here! We guide you through the tech terms and the gear and software you’ll need – much of which comes free with this issue – and reveal the best buys in a variety of must-have and optional extras to take your music productions up a level!
How To Use This Guide • Your step-by-step guide on how to make the most of this book, detailing all the videos, software and tutorial files that accompany each of the features, offering you a completely interactive learning experience!
Make your first track with BITWIG STUDIO 8-TRACK • Use your free DAW and this guide to make a tune from start to finish!
The main screen • Let’s take a closer look at the main screen in Bitwig Studio 8-Track to tell you what each part does…
MAKE A TRACK NOW! • We have seven workshops to help you make music in some of the most popular genres out there. All you need is this guide and the free cm Plugin Suite!
EDM
Hip-HOP
NEW COUNTRY
TRAP
THE FAST GUIDE TO RECORDING • Now you’ve made music ‘in-the-box’, it’s time to record sounds into your computer from the outside world…
/6 Of The Best… Microphones • Now we’ve covered recording, let’s take a look at some of the best budget microphones to capture those perfect takes, all according to top music production website musicradar.com
BASSLINE
TECHNO
DRUM & BASS
ARRANGE TRACKS LIKE A PRO! • Want to avoid your music sounding formulaic? Get to know the nuts and bolts of arrangement with our guide
THE 60 BEST FREE MUSIC PLUGINS • We’ve included many free plugins with this guide for you to use to produce music, but there is also a whole world of other free music software out there. Let’s take a look at the 60 best music plugins that you can download right now… for free!
THE EASY GUIDE TO MUSIC THEORY • Knowing how notes ‘work’ is a bonus in music production, and it’s easier than you might think
The circle of fifths • The circle of fifths is a diagram that lays out every musical note, key, three-note chord and scale, and charts the relationship between them. A bit like a musical version of the periodic table, the letters can either represent notes, chords or keys. Go around the circle clockwise and each note or key is separated by an interval of a perfect 5th; go round anti-clockwise and they’re ordered in 4ths. But what does the circle of fifths actually do for us? Let’s find out…
GO MOBILE! • Mobile music making is big business, with iOS and Android devices easily capable of producing as pro-sounding tunes as desktop computers. Over the following pages we round up the essential mobile apps for all aspects of music production…
The 11 best (mostly) synth emulation apps • The emulation of classic synths might be dominated by some key developers, but these companies have brilliantly brought back the vintage sounds of yesteryear so you can experience some amazing keyboard history…
10 of the best beat-making apps • We’re talking ‘drums only’ with this list of creative beat-making apps that allow you to create patterns, automate and generally provide a great backbone for whatever tunes you produce…
11 grooveboxes • Fewer features than a full-fledged DAW but far more than a drum machine, grooveboxes have taken the mobile world by storm and allow you to create tunes in an instant – a great way of creating scratchpad ideas…
12 of the best Android...