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MacBook Air 15-inch (2023)
Apple’s best-selling laptop – now with a bigger screen
Portable Bluetooth speakers
Supersized sounds you can take anywhere
All-new Apple products for 2023
Major leak reveals everything Apple has up its sleeve
Use mobile apps on macOS
Run iPhone and iPad apps and games on your Apple silicon Mac
VISION ON! THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF SPATIAL COMPUTING
Is Vision Pro the future market leader, or just an overpriced gimmick? We take a look at the history and future of virtual and augmented reality, and speculate on where Apple's new device might take us
MATT BOLTON...
WONDERS WHETHER THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOCIAL WEB MEANS IT'S IMESSAGE'S TIME TO TRULY SHINE
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THE GEAR WE'RE LUSTING AFTER
Cherry UM 9.0 Pro RGB
Come for the RGB, stay for the audio
MASTERCLASS - Make amazing documents
Create top-quality documents with Apple’s amazing iWork apps; Pages, Numbers and Keynote
Improve your home movies
Trim, adjust, improve and resize your videos for social media
iFi Audio Go Link
A high-quality portable DAC at a really competitive price
Selective colour editing
Indulge in creative compositing using Pixelmator Pro 3.3’s handy tool
Xencelabs Pen Display 24
Up your digital art game with this stunning pen display
iOS software
Swipe away your touchscreen troubles and rekindle your love of Apple’s mobile devices
15 questions with...Shida Shahabi
With a stripped-back production process but a heavyweight sound that mixes electronic processing and classical textures, Shida Shahabi is claiming her own calm space in music. It's an approach that means largely ignoring outside influences, 'best practice' and orthodox methods. Perhaps it's an ethos we can all learn from...
Cherry Audio: Waking the titans
Founded in 2018, Cherry Audio has become one of the most beloved softsynth creators, recreating yesterday’s legends virtually. We spoke to CTO Dan Goldstein to find out more about the company’s latest release: Novachord + Solovox
Sonora Cinematic Verticale €49 PC MAC
Creating the perfect felted upright piano takes time, perseverance and four layers of vertical felt!
I love your, Love Tracktion
What your DAW needs now is Love, sweet Love.
Mac daddy
Apple's new desktop and laptop options could speed up your studio, and completely empty your wallet....
App watch
We report on the latest developments in phone and tablet music making
Baby Audio BA-1 $99 PC MAC
Baby Audio has set the effects world on fire with a string of top releases. Can it do the same for synths with its first instrument plugin?
AIR Music Tech: AIR Delay Pro £50 PC MAC
Not your everyday delay. AIR Delay Pro brings bundles of otherworldly Shaping options to the table, and serves up a hat-trick of unique additions
Nektar Aruba £255 PC MAC
Sprucing up its MIDI drum controller with a raft of new features, Aruba offers a slick new way of performing your software drum instruments
Toneworks Catalyst €79 PC MAC
Bored of programming via the piano roll? Try jazzing up your riffs with this inventive step sequencer that can host VST instruments
Classic sounds & vintage techniques FOR THE 21ST CENTURY PRODUCER
Classic music production techniques and gear can breathe life and humanity into your digital productions. And it’s cheaper than you might think. In this feature, we’re going to look at some of the finest vintage plugins out there, and learn how to get revered sounds for free with the Plugin Suite
Punchy commercial-sounding bass
Recreating the impactful bass sound of commercial hits like Jax Jones' Whistle needn't be difficult. Let's learn how...
DJANGO DJANGO
Reborn with a new retro house-inspired sound, Django Django's new double-album Off Planet is a flurry of hypersonic colours and energy. We spoke to the band's cofounder David Maclean about the record's influences, tech and evolution....
Spitfire Audio PC MAC - British Drama Toolkit: Brass and Reeds £169
Whether youre scoring a film or scouting for evocative textures, Spitfire has a dramatic new proposition to capture your imagination
Erica Synths Zen Delay Virtual £155 PC MAC
Modelled on 2019's hardware delay, the virtual incarnation of the knob-packed atmosphere-carver surpasses its parent in more ways than one
Philips 16B1P3302D Portable Monitor
More screen space for when you’re on the move