10 years back
Our monthly shake-of-thehead at our younger selves’ news choices…
We explored the world of ‘future synths’ in 175 (March 2012), showing you how to create cutting-edge sounds with “instruments that are boldly looking to the future rather than trying to recreate past glories”. Of, course, some of the synths we were using — NI Massive, FXpansion Cypher and Cakewalk Z3TA+ 2 – are very much yesterday’s news now, illustrating that even software that’s considered ‘the future’ will one day be consigned to the past…
“Even software considered ‘the future’ will one day be consigned to the past”
One thing that hasn’t changed since then is the pentatonic scale — the subject of our Easy Guide to music theory. We also chatted to Dimitri From Paris, who confessed that his early remixes – created using little more than a cassette recorder – were “a bit shit”. We also dared to ask if there might be a case for bringing some – gulp – hardware into your computer music setup. The very thought…
Finally, this was the issue that saw the return of our letters pages, with our ‘message of the month’ being from a reader asking for… the return of the letters pages. How meta is that?