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RBeriandgebraMckusic! Reason’s Rack in Ableton Live. Could it lead to modular DAWs? database of everything you’ve
offered by some sort of
Dear This might be radical thinking but you and the community. I really categorisation as to what it does or
A while back you used to feature the first step to a solution is hope they could be useful for the type of sample, key, or tempo?
reviews of readers’ music – in fact I acknowledging the problem! others. Please let me know what
believe it might even have been you think! Cheers. For instance, I’m looking for a
called, rather appropriately, Anton free tool to help add lo-fi record
‘Reader’s Music’. I just wondered if Fabio Gotti (aka HydraTek) scratch and maybe a warping tool,
you could bring it back as I’d love to The first time I read that I thought but I have no clue where to begin
hear what other readers are ‘nah’; the second time I thought Thanks Fabio! Baby Comeback my search in the world.
producing and put it next to mine ‘mm’ and now I think it’s an was indeed a great give-away and
as a comparison? excellent idea. Reason kind of thank you so much for taking the Scott
does it with the Rack which can time to create some presets for it.
Matt S be used in any DAW so maybe it We’ll get these up at filesilo.co.uk Hi Scott, that’s an excellent idea
really is possible for developers under this issue and use your mail but I’m afraid it’s not something
It’s a great idea Matt, and to modularise – and that is a word, as an example to others to say: if we’ve maintained simply because
something we’ve been thinking apparently – their DAWs and you create any great presets with there is so much content up on
about for a while. If you or spread the love. A Cubase mixer, any instruments and effects from our server (at filesilo.co.uk). All
anyone else would like to have Live’s clips, Logic content, FL’s the Plugin Suite then we will the details of every download
your music critiqued, please send Channel Rack sequencer, Luna’s most certainly get them shared there are obviously in the
links (Soundcloud preferably) UA plugins would do me for with the world of readers! magazine related to it, but while
and a bio to computermusic@ starters. Oh and throw in Thor (And check out the review of one overall index is a fantastic
futurenet.com. We’ll round up the while you’re at it. Why don’t you Baby’s big Kid brother on p74.) idea it’d be a huge task for
best and put them in a feature all let us know what you’d all like someone to tackle, and I have a
called, now let me think… to see in some all-singing, all- A toughie horrible feeling it would be me
dancing Homer’s car of a DAW? doing it! So in order to distract
Modular DAWs Oh and Gadget’s touch workflow, Dear you I’ll just say ‘look over there’
Tracktion’s Chord Track; OK, I’ve been a subscriber for a while and point you in the direction of
Dear somebody stop me now… and getting to the point in my the next letter that kind of
Last month’s discussion about learning where I could really make suggests the same thing, albeit
DAW-specific things highlighted A preset party use of one of the many free simpler, and which I can answer in
what I think is a rather inefficient downloads offered in each edition. a much more helpful way.
equilibrium that music production Dear
software has reached. Apparently I’ve been a passionate reader of I’ve got about three editions’ tMqhuoeesmsttoioofnntt-ohafsked
Logic 10.5’s Step Sequencer is your magazine for many years. In worth of things on my external
brilliant, as is BitWig’s The Grid. I’m the latest issue of the mag I found drive and I’m sure there is much Dear
never going to use them because I the great addition to the Plugins, more that I could grab from the past I‘m just wondering if you have an
already use a different DAW; it Baby Audio’s Baby Comeback. I had issues I have. up-to-date list of all of the plugins
would simply be far too expensive/ fun messing around with it and I included as part of the CM Plugin
disruptive/time consuming to came up with some presets (15 in The problem is, I don’t know Suite? The only list I can find from
switch over. total) that I would like to share with what I have once I have it or where you is from March, 2013, so I have
to find it. Does anyone maintain a no idea if any more recent plugins
What if you could separately are now included or not? I was
buy, for example, The Grid, Live’s trying to find out if Thorn CM is now
sequencer and Reason’s mixer, and permanently included?
they could all be compatible with
each other? Why do, say, Tracktion Robin
program yet another sequencer in
Waveform Pro, when there are For the last three issues we put
about 20 other DAWs that already this feature on as a PDF on filesilo.
have one? co.uk, our ‘super-fast’ download
site for all our content (where
The current setup causes huge you’ll now also find the Plugin
duplication of programming tasks Suite itself). Trouble is, we forgot
and the end result is that many to tell anyone… but consider it
users will never access potentially done now! Chances are it’ll also
interesting products just because be back in the mag soon.
they’re bundled in this ‘all-or-
nothing’ way. What do you think?

98 / COMPUTER MUSIC / September 2020