Learn from the Queen legend and see the difference in just seven days! That will still give you plenty of time to kick back and absorb yourself in some gear reviews (including releases from Gibson and Fender), top-class interviews with the likes of Jack Bruce, some righteous Vintage gear – or work out which amp-changing mod you should try first. And if you fancy some more learnin’ after Brian May, you can move on to either a Chet Atkins or John Entwistle workshop – you brave, music-lovin’ souls you. Enjoy the issue…

Patchworx from Loopmasters is a new concept which presents fresh and exclusive collections of hand crafted patches for the most popular soft synths, direct from the studios of our best producers and artist contacts. This title includes 64 custom made patches and also comes with 64 ready to edit MIDI files from the packs creators.

Patchworx 24 - Drum and Bass Synths for Reason's Thor, is a collection of Dark Basses, Deep FX, Searing Leads and Atmospheric Pads which have been exclusively created for Drum and Bass and Dubstep Producers Worldwide who use Propellerheads Reason to make their music.

Pizzicato serves you to write, compose, print and listen to powerful music pieces for any soloist instrument and complete orchestra. The page setup may be zoomed in and out to create score reductions or big scores. Pizzicato Professional contains several additional tools to write music sheets in a way far more flexible than pen and paper (writing for percussion instruments, various note heads, personal tools and palettes, parts extraction,...). It also delivers various smart modules to help you compose music, as the proposal of chords on a melody, the creation of structured accompaniments, the assembling of music blocks into a composition,... The Professional version contains the features of the Beginner and Light version (including the full music course).

VOICES OF PASSION is a tool designed to use vocal samples as the foundation for creating new instruments, and includes female vocals from Wales, Syria, India, Bulgaria and America. It includes ethereal, passionate, flowing, mysterious, wailing and whispering vocals for Film, TV and Game composers as well as songwriters, new age artists and zen horticulturists. Altos and Sopranos.

'Drumatech: Synthesizer Drum Kit Samples' from Acid Records is a new sample library for the Electronic Music World! This Pack contain 3 Different and Completed Drum Kits, Recording from 3 hardware Synthesizers; The Access Virus, Nord Lead and Waldorf Micro Q.Drumatech is perfect for TECHNO/MINIMAL and Progressive Sounds Music and is 100% free to used in your production.

Hollywood Loops is proud to present Drums for the big screen, the perfect sample collection for any producer needing huge atmosheric fueled rhythm tracks for film scores, ambient metal and big room rock.

Featuring: Big room Tom Loops, resonant Metallic Loops, high impact Cymbal Loops, Tribal Percussion Loops, and cinematic One-Shots. Tempos ranging from 100 to 180 BPM, All the loops can be combined to create imense backing tracks adding drama to any production, sample the hard hitting sound of Big Screen Drums now!

Perfect for beginning guitarists as well as players who want to enhance their knowledge, this volume covers basic rock theory, essential left-hand techniques, power chords, rhythm guitar, and how to improvise with the pentatonic scale. Includes licks in the styles of rock greats like Chuck Berry, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and others. The most thorough book for beginning rock students!

The At a Glance series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before.
Just watch, listen and learn! Features multiple camera angles, on-screen tab and performance tips!
Use your DVD remote to choose or change options at anytime. You can also pause or watch the video in slow motion!

Hi-Fi+ is Europe’s premier English-language high-end audio magazine. Whether it’s the latest in digital audio technology or the best turntable you’ve ever heard, Hi-Fi+ magazine is the ultimate audiophile authority. Our goal is clear; to seek out the finest audio components money can buy. Music is the soundtrack to all our lives and we think that the better that soundtrack, sounds the more enriched our lives can be.

Helium Audio Splitter is a free, fully functioning, application that enables you to split one audio file into multiple tracks. It provides comprehensive support for a large range of source and destination formats: AAC, FLAC, M4A, M4B, MP3, MP4, MPC, Ogg Vorbis, Wave, WAVPack, WMA.