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Intel Core i9 12900K

Intel was never going to be without its performance crown for long, so with appropriate pomp and ceremony Jacob Ridley introduces the new CPU king.

AirPods (3rd generation)

These redefined wireless earbuds will be music to your ears

Arturia SQ80 V Cross Wave synth €199

Arturia have emulated the SQ80 from Ensoniq, an interesting sample-based synth from the 1980s. But does it have a place in 2021?

A TB-303 via Zebra CM

TB or not TB! It’s not so much a question, as how we use our own Zebra CM plugin to recreate the sound of a TB-303 for our 303 issue!

Cherry Audio Mercury-4 £30

The bygone, underappreciated Jupiter-4 hums with life once again, thanks to this new, intricately modelled software adaptation

EFTERKLANG

Producer Mads Brauer explains how the experimental Danish trio have gone back to basics for their latest album – and back to nature…

Nugen Audio Paragon ST £209

Imagine if you could combine the flexibility of an algorithmic reverb with the authenticity of convolution? Imagine no more with Paragon ST…

Problem-solving mixing

Part of the job of a mix engineer is to solve problems that might arise at the recording stage. Software – and creative thinking – can help!

Steinberg WaveLab Pro 11 £430

If 11 is one louder than 10, then WaveLab 11 must be one better than WaveLab 10. But, actually, it turns out that’s quite a lot better…

The Roland TB-303

It’s issue 303 of Computer Music so there really was only one feature that we could lead with – one comparing and contrasting the attributes of a hardware 303 with its many software counterparts. It’s time, then, to explore the finest pieces of software inspired by the legendary Roland TB-303…

15 questions with… Amon Tobin

Amon Tobin’s new release, How Do You Live, marks his 25th year in music. Working under four aliases and across more than a dozen albums, he’s transmuted elements of jazz, drum & bass and trip-hop into his own brand of intricate, brooding electronica, developing a sound and method that’s defined by process and technique – not genre or style. But, we hear you ask, what are his favourite plugins?

15 questions with… Mason Maynard

After last month’s 15 Questions With Shane Codd, we have another young producer who is making it big in the world of dance music. Mason Maynard already has the backing of BBC stars and some top production legends plus a studio packed with the best hardware and software. And it all stems from a school lesson when he was asked to produce on a computer. “There was another way to make music…”

Zephix 3.0

A fan of portable, modular distros, Mayank Sharma runs across a relatively new one and wonders how it stacks up against his all-time favourite: Slax.

Whonix 16

Mayank Sharma is a busy man, but when it comes to privacy and security then, like Louis Armstrong, he has all the time in the world.

UBUNTU VS FEDORA

Jonni Bidwell wants to know everything – and he means everything – about the two most popular Gnome-based distros…

SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE: Driving SPI displays

Let’s go on an adventure into the SPI protocol, LCD displays and model trains with Sean Conway toot-tooting away!

Sensor and motor control with the GPIO

Les Pounder shows how we can take Scratch further with a community-developed tool that builds on our Scratch knowledge.

LICENCE TO BILL

Jonni Bidwell has been reading licence minutiae and fears big business threatens the future of copyleft and software freedom.

Devuan GNU+Linux

The backlash against Systemd resulted in this sysvinit-friendly distro, now on version 4. Mayank Sharma assesses its progress.

AUTOMOTIVE GRADE LINUX

Mats Tage Axelsson shows how open source frameworks and Linux can help navigate you safely to your coding destination.

Atari VCS

Monetising nostalgia should be an easy win for Atari so Matt Safford can‘t believe it’s created another E.T.

M1 Pro and M1 Max

Ultra-powerful new MacBook Pro chips

iPadOS 15 SUPERGUIDE

With iPadOS 15, your iPad is smarter, more useful and more fun than ever before

iPhone 13 Pro Max

Take your photography and videography to the next level

Trust Taxon

Affordable webcam with ‘quad-HD’ resolution

Crave

THE GEAR WE’RE LUSTING AFTER

Peripherals

Thinking inside the box to refresh the parts other tips can’t reach

OWC Thunderbolt Hub

A mid-tier dock with extra ports

Apple Watch Series 7

Now with a bigger, brighter display and faster charging

Airpulse A100

Hi-res digital audio processing tech in a compact package