AMPED STUDIO 2

Something different for this month’s freebie, in the form of an extended online DAW subscription. Is this your DAW future?

Try out the premium version of the browser-based DAW and get free samples and a synth too!

Amped Studio 2 is one of a new breed of DAW, a way of putting together music within an online browser. You can therefore return to projects on any computer, Mac or PC, wherever you are in the world. And we have a special three-month offer, worth $50!

Amped Studio may look like many other DAWs out there, but it is browser-based, meaning that it will run in Chrome, Vivaldi or Opera on any system, Mac or PC, anywhere. You can produce projects easily with many instruments, effects and samples – just as you would on a ‘standard’ DAW’ – but once you save your project to the Amped Studio Cloud, you can then return to it from another computer, anywhere else on the planet!

In this tutorial we’ll run through how to install and use Amped Studio and give you a tour of the DAW. The Computer Music offer extends to upgrading to the paid-for Premium version of Amped Studio which normally retails at $4.99 a month. You get three months’ worth of this subscription starting from whenever you upgrade (you need to upgrade by September 30th this year). As part of the offer you also get a free sample pack (worth $10) and access to

Augur, an exclusive instrument worth $25.

One of the most intriguing aspects of the DAW is not only its ability to run Web Audio Modules (WAM)s – plugin instruments and effects like VST or AUs – but also the promise that you might soon be able to add your own external VSTs, although this is still in development as we write this.

Is this the future of DAW-based music production? Let us know how you get on with Amped Studio by emailing computermusic@ futurenet.com and head to ampedstudio.com to subscribe and get more info.