May 2026 Magazine Contents

REVIEWS: Apple MacBook Neo [front cover] • Celemony Tonalic • Novation Launch Control XL 3 • Yamaha URX44 audio interface • Audeze LCD-S20 headphones • Hisong AirStudio S1 USB mic/recorder • Buchla Touché polysynth [retrozone] • Wes Audio ngTubeComp • Eve Audio EXO 27 monitors • Tonelux Dynalux compressor • Sennheiser HD480 Pro • Sonnox Oxford Drum Gate 2 plug-in • Neuzeit Instruments Drop cont roller • Sonuscore LUX Orchestral Strings • Audio.Computer Beat Friend drum machine • Freqport FT1-EMU plug-in • Headway EDB-2 VAP preamp • Grell OAE2 headphones • Strymon Fairfax overdrive pedal • Sunset Sound Studio Reverb II • SPOTLIGHT: High-End Polysynths • Eurorack modules • New sample libraries — and much more!

TECHNIQUES + PEOPLE: Recording Music Outdoors • SOS FOR ARTISTS: Beating Plug-in Overload • Inside Track: Louis Tomlinson ‘How Did I Get Here?’ • Send / Return Compression • How I Got That Sound: Mark Needham [The Killers] • Talkback: Melody’s Echo Chamber • Modular Profile: Petr Horáček • DAW Tips: Reaper, Cubase Pro, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Studio Pro... and more!