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Apple Watch Series 6
Apple’s wearable is a masterpiece in miniaturisation
Adata SE770G SSD
Striking appearance and excellent value
ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac 7
Organise, edit and share shots with this digital asset app
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
As Alan Dexter discovers, this chip may be the runt of the Zen 3 family, but it delivers where it counts most: gaming.
Boost Your Home Network
Slow Netflix, or stuttering Apple Music? Here’s how to get the best performance from your home network
Apple Car: The Road Ahead
Cupertino’s pressing the pedal to the metal for its first, all-electric car
Linksys MR9600
Versatile and impressive dual-band Wi-Fi 6 router
JLab JBuds Air Sport
Sturdy wireless earbuds for exercise
Crave CES 2021 SPECIAL
THE GEAR WE’RE LUSTING AFTER
Logitech Circle View
A high-quality security camera with HomeKit support
Trust Eaze Wireless Headphones
Bluetooth headphones with 30-hour battery life
Marshall Uxbridge Voice
Stylish and powerful compact speaker
AMD Radeon RX 6800
The RX 6800 not only delivers 1,440p performance, it demolishes the RTX 2080 Ti at 4K, too says Jacob Ridley.
Slackel 7.4
Before he couldn’t work with Arch, he couldn’t work with Slackware, which is why Mayank Sharma jumps at everything that mentions the venerable distro.
UVI: Shade
UVI are well known for their instruments but also do great effects too, and their latest EQ might well, wait for it, put others in the shade
KRUST: Moving in cycles
Along with Roni Size, Krust was at the forefront of jungle in the 90s, helping to launch the genre and one of its most legendary labels, Full Cycle Records. After taking a seven-year break from music production, he is back with The Edge Of Everything, his first album in 14 years, an extraordinary cinematic production that came together with the best of old and new technology…
JEFF RUSSO
Jeff Russo is one of the world’s leading film and TV composers, currently on a mission to boldly produce exceptional soundtracks for both Star Treks Discovery and Picard. For these critically-acclaimed soundtracks, he even had his own custom-built sample library co-developed with Orchestral Tools (now available for us all to use) complete with a Klingon Choir…
CM diary
In part two of his exploration of the human side of computer music-making, Ashley talks about how to keep social – outside of your usual beat-making bubble
Using repetition and variation
Dave Clews talks us through how to use repetition in a way that even your harshest critics won’t detect as anything more than ‘catchy’
The Sequencer, pt 1
Scot takes us through the history and development of another synth staple and advises how to use it in a modular setting
Arturia: V Collection 8
The move to improve, enhance, add to and tweak already impressive software bundles continues apace with this latest package from Arturia
A touch of chaos
The experts from Audiotent bring extra dimensions to your synth sounds by exploring chaos generation, random LFOs and velocity
15 questions with… SOPHIA LOIZOU
The composer and academic produces intense electronica “inviting us to see the Earth through the eyes of others”…
Recording Masterclass
Recording external instruments or an entire band into your computer can seem a daunting prospect if you’ve never done it before, but with today’s tools – and advice from the following pages – it’s surprisingly easy to get great results. Welcome to the Recording Masterclass!
RetroPie 4.7.1
Les Pounder loves retrogaming and Raspberry Pi, so with RetroPie and the new Raspberry Pi 400 the question is: will he find his Nirvana?
Emulate classic Apple computers
Les Pounder goes back to his distant college days and reveals how to emulate the Apple desktop machines that he used for work and play.
Get coding on the Raspberry Pi 64-bit
John Schwartzman demos using assembly language code for the 64-bit Raspberry Pi to call Linux kernel services and the C run-time library.
MANJARO Quickly install Manjaro on the Pi 4
Les Pounder reveals how to get Manjaro Arm up and running on the Raspberry Pi 4 / 400, and start using the GPIO with Python.
RISE OF THE ROBOTS
Mats Tage Axelsson presents the basics of a robotics operating system and reveals what components can be used…
Next-gen terminals
Discover the next-gen terminal tools with David Rutland that will transform your command-line life.