I keep forgetting to mention this, but thanks to the lag in distribution time for UK magazines in the US it’s still relevant. The July issue of Computer Music magazine has a free Audio Damage plug-in on its DVD-ROM, and the magazine itself has a three-page article on how to use it. Buying the magazine is the only way to obtain this plug-in; we made an arrangement with CM to give them exclusive distribution rights for it.
CM is my current favorite music-tech magazine, and not just because of our relationship with them. The magazine content has an enthusiastic and unpretentious tone, the technique articles are full of genuinely useful advice, and I can’t help but be amused by the occasional Britishisms of language. The cover DVD contains software that’s actually useful (instead of just demo versions you can download from the web yourself) as well as a big pile of samples that’s different each month. It doesn’t have quite the critical and technical depth of Sound on Sound but it’s much more worthwhile than Keyboard (which I’ve given up on altogether) and usually more interesting than Electronic Musician.
Chris’s AI blog has a photo of the issue and more info here.
