Launched on 20 March 2003 Music Tech Magazine is the first magazine from Anthem Publishing

Anthem Publishing

Anthem Publishing is a British magazine company founded by Jon Bickley, Paul Pettengale and Simon Lewis in 2003. It is based in Bath.- Publications :* Music Tech Magazine* Italia! - a homes and holidays magazine...

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The magazine is targeted at engineers, producers and musicians and includes reviews of recording equipment and features articles on all aspects of music making. The magazine also features tutorials, (now called Software Workshops) for the latest versions of popular recording applications, including Cubase, Live

Ableton Live

Ableton Live is a loop-based software music sequencer and DAW for Mac OS and Windows by Ableton. The latest major release of Live, Version 8, was released in April 2009. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for...

, Logic Pro

Logic Pro

Logic Pro is a hybrid 32 / 64 bit digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software application for the Mac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developer Emagic, Logic Pro became an Apple product when Apple bought Emagic in 2002...

, Pro Tools

Pro Tools

Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation platform for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, developed and manufactured by Avid Technology. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing in music production, film scoring, film, and television...

, Reason

Reason (program)

Reason is a music software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It emulates a rack of hardware synthesizers, samplers, signal processors, sequencers, and mixers, all of which can be freely interconnected in an arbitrary manner...

 and Sonar

Cakewalk Sonar

Cakewalk SONAR is a digital audio workstation made by Cakewalk for recording, editing, mixing, mastering and outputting audio. The latest versions of the software are SONAR Home Studio 7, SONAR Home Studio 7 XL, SONAR X1 Producer Edition, SONAR X1 Studio Edition, SONAR X1 Essential Edition, and...

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One regular feature in the magazine is a two-page spread titled Ten Minute Masters, which takes a detailed look at one small technical area of the music industry. These articles have proved very useful for beginners and advanced readers alike.

In the summer of 2005 the magazine launched a new updated website, which provides downloadable content from the magazine. All features and reviews from past issues are made available to download in .pdf format. Recent reviews (less than 3 months old) and features after Issue 18 are available for a small fee, while older articles are available free of charge.

In 2006 an online subscription to the magazine became available, providing readers with the opportunity to access each new issue online as it was published. This subscription provides considerable cost savings compared to a paper subscription, however online subscribers do not receive the Music Tech DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 or its contents, which include samples, software and additional tutorial files, as part of their subscription.

Among its regular contributors is veteran saxophone player Keith Gemmell

Keith Gemmell

Keith Gemmell is a rock musician and saxophone player best known for being a member of British art rock band Audience from 1969 to 1972. He is now a music educator, author and journalist.-Early life and career:...

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