10 years back
We grabbed our nunchucks to make some beats, and eyed Sylenth1 with suspicion
The Nintendo Wii might have been the console that got your mum flaying her arm around the living room as she tried to pick up a spare playing ten pin bowling, but we were determined to reclaim it from the mainstream in 112, showing you how to use the Wii Remote as a MIDI controller. It was fun for a while but, let’s face it, not as much fun as Super Mario Galaxy.
In the news section, meanwhile, we told you about Steinberg’s Sequel, a beginner-friendly DAW that wasn’t actually the sequel to anything. What would they call Sequel 2, we wondered? [Spoiler Alert: they called it Sequel 2.]
We were also rather blasé about the announcement of Sylenth1, being somewhat suspicious of the claim that it sounded better than its rivals. The fact that it’s still a firm favourite a decade later suggests that it probably did after all.
Back on the tutorial side of things, we had guides to making both hip-hop and disco, while DJ Vadim told us that he thought of himself as a “musical fisherman”, albeit one who caught sounds rather than fish, and didn’t actually use a net or a rod. So a musician, then, really.
“DJ Vadim told us that he thought of himself as a ‘musical fisherman’”