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Beat combines competent hardware and software tests with dedicated reviews as well as reports and interviews from musicians and the music business. We will report on music production with the latest synthesizers and computers, introduce new trends in recording, and always have our finger on the pulse with up-to-date reports. Many well-known specialist report on the widespread music production solutions and experienced editors take care of the most important entertainment and scene topics. This magazine is a platform for musicians and contains a regular demo and MP3 section for readers as well as a download with high-quality sample and music files for creative musicians. Software licenses available while stock lasts. You can check the availability of each product here: www.plugins-samples.com/all-issues

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From the diary of editor Daniel Bock The SUPERBOOTH24 in Review • Beat was represented by three people at the Superbooth this year. Marco and Carl were veterans and knew their way around. I, as a newcomer, was getting my first taste of the Berlin trade fair. A country bumpkin with a soft spot for modules in Berlin at Europe‘s biggest trade fair for electronic musical instruments – that could only lead to absolute sensory overload. After some time to recover, everything has settled down and it‘s now time for a look back.

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LO-FI SAMPLING 17 PAGES TRICKS & PLUG-INS FROM SAMPLE TO FINISHED TRACK • Is it pure nostalgia, the reduction to the essentials or the retro charm in the sound that is so popular thanks to Lo-Fi? Either way: While battleships like Kontakt, Falcon or HALion boast ever more complex features and make entire orchestras playable in a realistic way, trackers and old-school samplers are celebrating one revival after another. We‘ll show you why this software and hardware is so popular, how you can produce emotional tracks with the popular lo-fi flair and provide the right plug-ins for the most important tricks. We‘ll also give you our own tracker, which lets you relive more than just the vibe of the 80s.

Hands-on: The tools Synths & software for authentic Lo-Fi • “Low fidelity“, i.e. broken sounds and creaky samples in the high-resolution DAW - how is that supposed to work? The Lo-Fi wave hasn‘t stopped at the software world either. From emulation of time-honored Hip Hop samplers to analog synths and effects that destroy things, there are a whole range of suitable plug-ins. But the DAWs already have almost all the sounds and effects you need!

Lo-Fi hardware tools: Sampler and pedals Broken sounds for the jam without DAW • You can also get beautifully broken sounds “out of the box”, as they say. With the right samplers, synths and effects devices, you can achieve lo-fi vibes without a DAW. And they don’t have to be expensive.

Lo-Fi sounds Comparing sampling cloud services • No more getting stuck looking for inspiration. Being able to load every sound of every instrument into your current production with just one search. Having drum loops, vocals and all kinds of noise sounds available in virtually infinite abundance without much effort - that‘s not what the next music AI promises (yet). But sampling cloud services like Splice, Arcade, Loop Cloud and FL Cloud do. How do they differ?

Lo-Fi study beats in 15 steps From sample to finished track • Did the „Calm beats for studying“ or „Melodies to relax to“ become famous through the Lo-Fi Girl or vice versa? It doesn‘t really matter, in the end it‘s the sound that counts and it‘s more popular than ever before - the more than 14 million followers of her YouTube channel alone speak for...