10 years back
Our monthly shake-of-the-head at our earlier selves’ news choices…
‘What was making the headlines in August 2012?’, you ask. Well, it was the time of Traktor 2.5, the latest version of NI’s DJing app, and we were also introduced to the company’s presumably speedy F1 controller. Vroom, vroom, etc.
The burning question of the day was whether it was possible to play your laptop like an instrument – it was starting to dawn on us that not everyone was plugging in a MIDI keyboard anymore,
“a distinction that a very small number of people care a great deal about”
although hitting your computer with drumsticks wasn’t/isn’t recommended – and we had a bleepy tutorial on creating ‘fakebit’ music – ie music that sounds like it was made using ’80s hardware but was actually powered by ‘chiptune-style’ plugins. A distinction that a very few people care a great deal about.
Finally, it transpires that we reviewed Roland’s R-Mix – a piece of ‘demixing’ software we’d completely forgotten about – and a reader asked why we didn’t feature more female producers in the mag. Valid question; we didn’t give a very satisfactory answer then, but we’re continuing to work on it since.