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Beat combines competent hardware and software tests with dedicated reviews as well as reports and interviews from musicians and the music business. We will report on music production with the latest synthesizers and computers, introduce new trends in recording, and always have our finger on the pulse with up-to-date reports. Many well-known specialist report on the widespread music production solutions and experienced editors take care of the most important entertainment and scene topics. This magazine is a platform for musicians and contains a regular demo and MP3 section for readers as well as a download with high-quality sample and music files for creative musicians. Software licenses available while stock lasts. You can check the availability of each product here: www.plugins-samples.com/all-issues

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66 nasty basslines & chilling arps – for free! • The MiniFreak is causing quite a stir at the moment. No surprise, as a synth like Serum has never been available as a hardware keyboard version before. Plus the sounds are first class and hardly any other synth is as versatile as it is intuitive – because you can touch it! And that’s why we think you should get a piece of it. There are 66 delicacies waiting for you: arpeggios guaranteed to give you goosebumps, monumental atmospheres, bristling hooklines and fiddly grooves are the icing on the cake … enjoy them all!

All your software in one place • Day after day, the Beat editors are committed to presenting readers with software highlights time and time again. This will not change in the future - except for one thing: All content is available for download at plugins-samples.com at any time. Free of charge for magazine subscribers, by the way. And it works so easy!

MIXING STRATEGIES HIP-HOP, TECHNO, ROCK & POP 7 STEPS TO THE PERFECT MIX • While some people mix intuitively during production, for others the mixdown is a separate process with strict rules. The goal is the same in both cases: tracks that are as powerful as possible and transparent songs with depth. But what equipment do you need? How do you get the best out of equalizers, compressors, etc.? What are the advantages of hardware mixers, equalizers and compressors? Can you adequately assess a mix with headphones? On 19 pages we give you all the answers to the topic and at the same time provide a seven-point plan with which you can get any mix under control.

7 Steps to the perfect mix • Often when you are faced with a new mixing job you seem to stand there like a duck in a thunderstorm: How should I approach it, where do I want to go - and how do I achieve my goal? Our 7-point plan makes it easier to reach the sound maximum easier.

Strategies and tools • Every beginning is difficult - and as a sound engineer you are all too often faced with a new project and ask yourself the all-important question: What am I actually doing here? In this tutorial we want to show you strategies and tools for the perfect mix. We would like to go beyond the usual setting tips and instead support you in developing your own individual path that fits perfectly to the respective song, your workflow preferences and your studio - whether it’s a home studio or a professional environment, whether it’s Hip Hop or singer-songwriter.

Plug-ins or hardware – who is right? • Music production today takes place within the computer. Point. Artists like Billie Eilish producer Finneas and Jacob Collier are winning a lot of Grammys - with titles that, at least according to legend, were produced entirely “in the box”. So is analog hardware now actually an anachronism, a complete waste of money, a topic for die-hards and...