10 years back
We adorn our usual nostalgia glasses… with added 2020 lenses
Anyone who says that music’s been devalued over the past 10 years could do worse than take a look at our cover feature from August 2010 ( 154), when we showed you how to make a track for free. Sadly, we can’t play it to you here, but we can assure you that it sounded like a million dollars (probably).
Our Burning Question for the month asked if live computer music could be made more engaging, a trifling concern now we’re in a time when most people
“Most would settle for any live music not streamed from someone’s house”
would settle for any kind of live music that isn’t streamed from someone’s house. We also pre-empted the start of the hardware synth boom by discussing the pros and cons of adding some ‘out of the box’ gear to your studio setup, and there was a tutorial on using Propellerhead Software’s new Reason 5 and Record 1.5 apps, which would later become one.
Finally, one reader wrote in to tell us how much he’d been enjoying his archived copies of , and implored everyone to keep theirs. We agree that they can be useful – particularly if you’re the writer of a column like this one…