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i've been a hardcore reader of the magazine for years now but in the last year i feel its gone down hill

same watered down articles, no substance, stating the obivious, and when i was new to computer music it just didn't really understand what on earth it was saying/explaining

charles

yeah man...I'm kicking myself because I just got a subscription to it...bah to cm and ha rah for Sound on Sound.

WHatever you make of the main magazine, I strongly recommend checking out the latest CM SPecial on Online Music. Fantastic stuff!!!

Yeah I dumped CM/FM years ago for their superficial reviews and tutorials that were like product brochures.

SoS, imo, does a much more thorough job, and who needs another 500 DnB loops every month on that cd?

Maybe youve just outgrown it.

I still find it useful, it is a bit glossy/brochure-like.

But I enjoy some of the sample colelctions and for a newbie like me the soundlikes and synth tutorial etc are quite useful.

Although I am sure searching the web will bring up some tutorials.

Saying that, the computer music magazine website has a lot of pdf tutorials now. I think thats a great way for a site to work, I cant rate the tutorials personally but its nice to see them availble form older issues.

Would a newbie like me get on with sound on sound magazine? I'm not a gear head and just like learning about methods rather than gear reviews

Nav, you can have a look at www.soundonsound.com and see what you think - every mag more than 6 months old can be viewed by non-subscribers. You can also get an e-sub, for online viewing only, quite cheaply, and I think you can go as low as a 3 month e-sub.

If you're into synthesis, check out this link for a pile of how-to articles:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

Hope this helps.

i've stopped my subscription, nearly every issuse i got was damaged in the post but really it just doesn't have the deepth and quality it did around 2 or so years ago - just brings up the same stuff again, and encourages the most insipid music


- £6 is just too much for what it offers aswell

Thanks for the tips polysax

Nav wrote:Maybe youve just outgrown it.

The nail > the head, I think you might've just hit it, Nav.

I haven't bought the mag since around when it first came out, and it was around that same time that Future Music started putting cheesy, low budget models on every cover holding synths and rubbing their snatches on mixers and shit like that.

SoS was always an excellent, comprehensive mag though.

Another vote for Sound On Sound here. Best toilet reading ever (in a good way).



btw, has anybody noticed: british mags are much much better than US mags (IMO at least), f.i. SOS over any US mag, although Keyboard and EQ are not bad, and Mojo over Rolling Stone or whatever they have...Practical Photographer over Outdoor Photography (or something)...

I like to look, but I won't buy.

Someone mentioned sos and I do like them best (when you can get it that is) I may do one of those online sub's for the heck of it.

Futuremusic and music tech are fun to flip through, but I have only bought it once.

EQ just blows, what a waste of trees.

Recording should rename them selfs the "microphone and reviewed and revisited" magazine and for that they are fine.

Electronic musician is an enigma. Quite bi-polar having good info once and then utter junk the next.

Mix used to be a great source of info, but it seems to be an advertisment mag now....which is fun to flip through, but nowhere near as fun as the others for flashy "picture only" pleasure.....

Resolution and Pro Sound News are pretty neat imo.

Most all the music mags I'm able to get around here are just a bunch of ads that you pay for, and the 'articles' are basically ads in article form.

at the moment i dont read sound on sound but ive been told through a friend that its starting to do DVDs and the content has been brilliant recently so im definitely going to check it out.

in general im really disappointed with cover dvds. especially the samples. future music has had the SAME samples on their cover discs the last three months.

computer music is okay for me (im still learning a bit) but i do know what you mean by it being a bit basic. it tells you how to do stuff, but rarely explains why. music tech mag, on the other hand is great for me as it gives a bit more depth but not too much depth.

i usually buy all 3 to be honest and just read them all cover to cover. but i end up reading music tech over future and computer music.

i m an sos addict , i everytime i need to get some info on a gear ,i go thru the old issues , this was actualy the first english mag i bought when i arrived in england .

Seeing as it has been mentioned, I think that Music Tech Magazine is rubbish. Some of the stuff it prints is just WRONG!

A simple example - when Live 5 came out they published an article in which the writer said that Live 5 does not host VST instruments. Now how could that get published??!!

And its just one example of total inaccuracy from Music Tech Magazine. There have been repeated examples of reviews in MTM that are so factually incorrect about the product that I was left assuming that their reviewer had not actually installed the software and tried it out at all.