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How To Achieve The Perfect Real-Time Key
Produce fantastic results with the Notch Chroma Keyer with this easy step-by-step guide
Caelum Audio Tape Pro £39.99
Tape saturation can be an excellent flavour-enhancing tool. Let’s see if this new affordable plugin from Caelum Audio tingles the taste buds
TOM HOLKENBORG
Having just scaled his personal ‘Mount Everest’ with a four-and-a-half-hour score for Justice League: The Snyder Cut, Tom Holkenborg reflects on isolation working methods, casting out his old kit and his enduring passion for boutique Eurorack synths
Spiritual Sounds
It’s time to raid the mighty Vault, and we have found a much-needed collection of samples to calm us all down a bit. One, two, three: breathe…
Tom Wolfe Premier Collection £239.99
This preset collection for softsynth classics could catapult your next soundtrack into the top division, but is it in the premier league?
New keys samples
We have two all-new packs of highly-processed keyboard samples for you this issue. You can get both packs on the DVD or download direct at filesilo.co.uk
Neuratron PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate 2020 £199
To scan and edit existing musical scores, the best option is a dedicated application (and one with a very long name)
The cm guide to MODULAR SYNTHESIS
Modular, aka Eurorack, synthesis has taken the production world by storm. Here’s your complete guide on how to get going, as we go from zero to modular hero…
Spitfire Audio Contemporary Drama Toolkit £169
Spitfire invite you to enjoy a world of effortless, feel-based scoring. But are these simple routes to sonic success just smoke and mirrors?
15 questions with…SNARL
Snarl might not be old enough to set foot in a club yet, but he’s already producing tracks so good that he has been described as ‘dance music’s next great prodigy’. Not that Prodigy, although he does come from Essex…
15 questions with… JIMMY EDGAR
Playing games with music, using three EQs, no compression, nor reverb. Welcome to the glorious mind of Jimmy Edgar
Pro-Tography OnePlus 9 Pro
Mobile phone evolution meets camera revolution, and the results are excellent
Vivid-Pix Restore (3.1.16)
Bring faded memories back to life
Mac to the future
Apple is at a turning point with Mac hardware – but just where could it go in the next five or 10 years? Let’s imagine…
lumen
A little light relief
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2021
Paint, photo and vector graphics suite
Great Gadgets For Your New iPhone
So you’ve got a new iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro or iPhone 12 Mini. What now? Here’s some of the great peripherals and cases you can buy.
Moshi Otto Q
Qi wireless charging – with style
Rapoo XC145
Wireless charging on a budget
OWC Thunderbolt Dock
Give your M1 Mac even more connection options
The Global Chip Shortage Crisis
Charlotte Henry looks at the ongoing global shortage of computer chips and what the consequences might be for Apple
Neo Smartwatch - Kid-Friendly Comms Gadget
Kid-friendly comms gadget
Samsung 980 1TB SSD
A strange drive for stranger times, says a perfectly normal Alan Dexter.
Radeon RX 6700 XT
Navi 22 joins the GPU party, trimming core counts, die size and price, as Jarred Walton discovers. If only you could get your hands on it…
ALL YOUR DATABASE ARE BELONG TO US
With the help of Patrick McFadin, the Datastax database guru, Jonni Bidwell gets a handle on the wherefore and why of Kubernetes.
CentOS Stream 8
Mayank Sharma takes a look at the distro that has the open source community up in arms, to see what the hullabaloo is all about.
Terminal multiplexer
Shashank Sharma is enthralled by screen multiplexers, and Byobu presents an elegant and efficient approach to managing multiple windows.
SparkyLinux 2021.03
Its rather unimpressive-looking screenshots intrigued Mayank Sharma, who wants to find how this distro has survived for as long as it has.
SystemRescue 8.0
If you’re as adventurous with your installations as Mayank Sharma, then you too would want to keep a copy of this distro handy…
MX-Fluxbox Pi 21.02.20
Les Pounder is always on the lookout for a new slice of Pi and with MX Linux he discovers something fresh from the oven.