10 years back
For issue 113, we put the focus on technology that’s pretty well obsolete by now
“Trackers!” screamed our June 2007 cover ( 113), as we investigated “the amazing free software giving the big boys a run for their money”. We’d hesitate to say that we may have been a little hyperbolic there, but it’s fair to say that then, as now, trackers were more niche than mainstream.
We also showed you how to sound like Klaxons, who we described as “the darlings of the nu rave scene” – a dubious honour if ever we heard one. The band announced in 2014 that their upcoming
“Our news section was led by three products hardly anyone is using any more”
dates would be “their last headline tour”; whether that was their decision to make we’re not sure.
There was an article on tuning up your PC, too. We’re not sure if snowflakey millennials bother with tedious stuff like that these days, probably preferring to chuck their computer in the bin and buy a new one at the first sign of slowness.
Finally, in a strange quirk, our news section was led by three products that we’re guessing hardly anyone is using any more: NI’s not-quite-essential-enough Kore 2, JazzMutant’s Dexter controller, which the iPad did for, and Arturia’s Origin keyboard, the company’s highly ambitious but slightly barmy – and super-expensive – hardware synth.