The results have more than justified the hard work of all involved, though - CM Session is a thing of beauty and no mistake. Featuring 1.7GB of lovingly crafted sounds from the mind, ears and instruments of world-renowned sound designer Scot Solida, all wrapped up in Native Instruments' powerful-but-intuitive Kontakt Player interface, this cavernous ROMpler puts an entire band under your control, either running on its own or as a plug-in within your sequencer.
It's a definite ‘keeper', so load up that disc and turn to p120 for our get-started guide. Of course, while Scot's done all the hard work for you with CM Session, at some point you're still going to want to create your own sounds with all those other plug-ins of yours. This month's cover feature aims to help you with just that, guiding you through the six main forms of synthesis and showing you how to create fantastic sounds using some of the greatest soft synths around today. By the time we're done, you'll be well on the way to synth mastery.
