Future Music App Reviews

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Excellent Magazine! Excellent App!!!!. I've learned more from Future Music and it's other two sister magazines than I'm sure I could in the same amount of time in college. Full time!!!! For a couple of dollars a month! Love it!!!!! Keep it up!!!!!!

I have a suggestion. Okay, so I downloaded it too, and yes, there is no magazine without purchasing it. I'm fine with subscribing, provided its readable, so why not a few pages as a free demo? I have bough iOS mags before that we're little more the a clumsy PDF made with no consideration for the device. Id love to know if this is laid out device -friendly, or if it's just a direct export for the magazines print file.

Excellent magazine. One of the best or better ones around. They keep getting it right, writing about what is going on in the world of audio or better music production. Recommend it to anybody remotely and full on involved in producing.

Scam !!!! Not a free app!!!. If offering as free app then at least give some free content even if just a couple old issues or articles and entice people to buy recent. No content delivered at all ... Just asks for $6.99. This should not be listed as a free app.

Great Job, Great Magazine!!. Unbelivable how much morons are out there spaming review section with "not free" comments!! Hey morons, read the article about Newsstand on Apple web and what it is for! This give you oportunity to BUY a magazine in digital form! Not to get for free! If you like paper version, go and buy it! Stop spaming reviews! Of course it is not free!! It is a great opportunity to have your favourite magazine on your iPad and read it whenever you want and whereever you want. You can have tons of magazines on your device without need to carry full bag of printed copies, BTW they offer free copy of October issue just for you morons who claim that it is not free!!!

Why are you complaining?. This is a fine app. It works In every way I've seen, so I have no idea why everyone is complaining. It's an amazing magazine, too. VERY interactive. There's a video for everything!

Very Satisfied!. I got this app in hopes to find an app that keeps me up-to-date with all the latest in music production. Everything I need is right here. Awesome layout. Love the interactivity as well. Definitely earned 5 stars!!

Great. The full mag, plus all the videos built right in to the articles at less than half the price of buying it at the news stand. All the samples are downloadable too. Those complaining that its not free either have never read this magazine before or simply live in a fantasy land.

Great App!. I like the fact that you can read this in landscape mode. The navigation through each issue is stellar. Of course the content is great for anyone who is producing music in this day and age - hobbyist and Pro alike. I look forward to every new issue. Check this publication out!

Excellent Magazine. Most of the one star reviews are because the app only acts as a storefront to purchase the magazine, thus the magazine itself isn't free. You have got to be kidding me. It says very clearly in the description how much each issue costs, and frankly, this package is worth every penny. It certainly beats paying the $16 newsstand price in the US! Thanks FM!!!

Essential!. A must have magazine full of all the info you need to make better music

Rip off. This company charged my account for an "Automatic Renewal" without any such notification or agreement. I got a refund from Apple, but now when I try to read magazines I did pay for, Future Music mysteriously crashes and will not let me in. I've had lots of incidents with this company. Don't subscribe they are just a rip off!

Pretty good for the price. Considering the actual subscription is 4x as much, this is a great deal!

Not bad but..... The Content of FM Magazine is very good but, just the PDF is for 5,99$ is quite expensive. You could take CHIP as a model, which has got a lot of animations and a much clearer menu than this is. On top of this their menu looks much more modern

Good magazine, buggy software. 'complete your collection' purchase option doesn't work (linked from the back of each issue) - and it is not available on the main store page on iPad3 (although in others like Total Guitar, it is). It works on iPhone5. Some videos don't not work. I have reported it to them last year, but the same videos that had issues before, still do. Jody Wisternoff interview in Aug 2012 will not play and others

Didn't get the magazine. The magazine is a PDF of the print version, which is ok for me. But it's not readable on the iPhone. I tried to get it over to the iPad bit failed. Some back and forth with support didn't help. $7 down the drain.

Offline wont display magazine covers. I download the mags after purchase. Once i disconnect from the internet i can no longer see the magazine covers. Wasn’t like this before the revamp. Could you all fix this? I hat hunting for the issue i may want to read just because i can’t see the cover.

Didn’t connect with my online account.. It took me three weeks to be able to get back all of my issues from my online subscription. I went through numerous emails and then I tried something different and all of a sudden it worked. I was not happy with tech-support in any means. Love the magazine, but it seems like they do not care about their customers!

Still the Best Source for Cutting Edge Audio. I've been reading Future Music since 1999 when I worked for Barnes & Noble bookstores in the US. They have the best blend of informative essays, reviews, tutorials and insightful interviews in my opinion. They're not Mix or Sound On Sound, nor are they meant to be. Future Music & Computer Music are more about the artists & producers and how they work, in turn, that which works for fans too. I have 28 issues on my iPad alone without ever having any problems. Highly recommended!

Horrible thieving app. Get the subscription, the continually bill, won’t log in and they don’t know my email, can’t get downloaded content, but they sure know your credit card to bill. Horrible company.

Future Music App. Needs a search feature and also needs to not erase the majority of your downloaded issues when upgrading

Disapointing. You'd expect to be able to tap on an story title in the table of contents and be zoomed to the article of your desire. Nope. As well, all url's within stories are not hyperlinked. And, there is no sound coming from the embedded videos. I want this iPad version of the magazine to work and be the interactive experience it should be at nearly $5 a pop. Hurry up!

Great content, app a little less. The app is so so... Slow at startup, sometimes forgets what I was reading. But what's important here is the content. And the content is great

NOT FREE, i get it, subscribe but still..... why say its free when all you can do is download the app that allows you to BUY a subscription? i understand that mag's arnt free and i would expect that i would have to buy a subscription but i cant even check out main articles or anything, kinda false advertising i would like that to be fixed, im still gna subscribe but not for a while, ima see if the acctuall mag is cheaper, and that way i have the phsyicall mag in my hand, its neat it can be on my ipod but i thought id get to check it out before i subscribed... so... fail.

Fantastic!. Awesome magazine with all sorts of good info, reviews, tutorials on a wide variety of computer based music production.

Great, useful magazines. I subscribe to several of Future's magazines and every issue has so much inside that I sometimes need more days to read and apply everything. Get an issue and start learning. I'm sure you will enjoy.

Bad App, worse customer feedback. i made the mistake of buying a yearly subscription, but now, after going thru IOS updates (which deleted all my purchases), i have been unable to get my back issues or any new ones. After multiple emails, all i got was automated responses, with instructions on how to restore,......well multiple attempts do NOT work, and worse yet I cannot get any feedback to get this subscription to work. Do not buy the year subscription

Seriously?. All these other reviews are true, once you download the magazine cover for free and open it you're asked to buy the October or Autumn issue for $6.99 No thanks, I'll just buy a whole book or music or lunch for that matter.

Love it. Wish you would.... I wish you would have some more stuff in your magazine about Maschine software and hardware.

App Runs Slow. Had a hard time even purchasing an issue on iPhone 4s and restoring older purchases. I have yet to see a video thru the app. Great potential but def not there yet.

Scam by Apple and Future Music!. This NOT free! All it does is bring up an ad that says you can buy Future Music. Lame lame lame! I'll never buy a stupid magazine from these guys when I can get a real magazine for the same price. All of the free magazines I downloaded were the same way. Why would say they it's free and then show us an advertisement to buy the magazine? Isn't that a lie? Jees Apple, straight up lying to us about newsstand right off the bat. WWSJD?

ALU. Great magazine. I prefer the printed version by far but still love the digital version.

Won't download my purchase. I purchased the latest issue. It got hung up downloading and just says waiting. When I close the app and re-open the purchase button is back. When it try to purchase it tells me I already own it and gets hung up on waiting again. So far it is unreadable which makes this app currently useless.

Good!. Had this for a year or more and am VERY satisfied. Great publication and great app. Far better than some of the others I've tried.

Not free. Liars. When the only thing you do after you get a "free" app is to have to buy something, it's not free. Even the NYTimes app, as bad as it is, has a few free features. This app is at best misleading, at worst a scam. And whose idea was the "newsstand"? Can't get rid of it, and now it's two steps to read the NYTimes, as if that's an improvement. Sorry, Steve, this one is stupid. RIP.

Light a candle, don't curse the darkness. OK, we all know the mags not free. Wadda expect. But I downloaded the free version and I kinda like it. But what I would like to see is a preview feature so I know if I want to buy an issue, and since the real rag comes with a CD, how about an mp3 file(s) just like the big boyz ? Thanks buddy.

OF COURSE YOU HAVE TO SUB Very very good magazine. Dude, this is an incredible magazine and a phenomenal app. It never crashes and is a lot better designed than a lot of mag apps. Please don't listen to the doofuses who get mad you have to pay for it. This magazine is worth every penny.

Useless Format. Content is fine. Price is fine if it was in a usable format. But This is just a scan of the magazine. It doesn't even contain any internal hyperlinks...not even from the table of contents. Trying to navigate and read the thing is horrible. No clue what these people were thinking.

App is Fine. So nobody realized Future Music is an actual publication and them giving away their issues for free would render them bankrupt. Newsstand is a free app, and walking buy a newsstand in real life is also free, reading any of the materials is not. Future Music is excellent with their info on a side note, for those interested in pursuing DAWs.

Needs change. I think this magazine structure is kinda flawed. We should be charged for the app (less than a subscription price) and get new issues for free. I mean throw us a bone here. That should be the benefit of having a $600 phone. Otherwise I'll go buy the magazine in the store and get the coverslip CD's too. I was really looking forward to this magazine too but I guess I'll just go get my music gear info and reviews off a FREE website.

Where is the content?. They could've used any number of methods to make the contents of the discs available... And I expected them to. They did no... Not web login, iTunes U content, internal sharing with iTunes... VERY lame and a deal breaker. Fix it and receive a better rating. Just sayin'.

Why would I pay the same price for a digital issue?. Haven't you guys learned anything from angry birds? .99 = ya I'll check that out $6.99 = no money for you. Whats wrong with the magazine industry it's like you guys are allergic to money or something.

MY FAVORITE MAGAZINE FOR LIFE. THANKS FOR MAKING THIS MAGAZINE it's the only magazine I buy now besides FUTURE MUSIC but 14 years I knew this was gonna happen,I tried getting all my friends to try out daws and my first love fruity loops, but no one listened to me, I have friends taking classes about stuff it took me years to understand, and figure out by making hundreds of horrible songs that I loved cuz they were like my babies a created lol , but really great magazines guys I've been buying every back issue I missed, u guys are the best, I don't even wont a career in music I just do it for fun, and thanks for all the goodies every month, I'm like a kid on Christmas, JUST DONT PUT IN A SOCK VST LOL

Nothing's Free. Magazines are never free. This magazine has a wealth of information, reviews, rating and videos. If you buy it at the store it more expensive. The amount of info inside this mag far out weights the $5.99 price. DO NOT be detoured by the habitual whining of the large population of Apple owners. I once read a 2star review on a hard drive, the reviewer loved it but gave it 2stars because it didn't come with a white USB cable to match his pretty little setup. You can read more on the Apple Store web site. I'm sorry I digressed but this Apple-whining is outta control.

Can't get enough!. Still waiting for an issue that focuses on EBM and their major producers and bands but worth every penny.

Thank you for releasing this.. Just finding these magazines was always a chore. So happy that not only they're easier to find, but for much less as well.

Great magazine, but peak at table of contents needed. Ignore the large number of 1-star reviews here. Folks don't understand how Newsstand works (and pricing is up to the publisher, not Apple) and think they're going to get free magazine issues. Gimme a break. This magazine is hard to find where I live, so having the digital version is very convenient (I miss not getting the extra goodies that often come with the printed version). It's a UK-based magazine, so you'll see some differences in how content is written. Overall, very valuable magazine for electronic musicians and those who record at home. One suggestion: it would be nice if there was a way for us to view the table of contents of each issue before buying. I don't expect full pages for free…just the topics covered. Some issues may not be useful to me, so I like to buy a la carte, not subscription. But Newsstand doesn't seem to allow publishers to show off an issue's contents page. Need a fix there. Otherwise, 4 solid stars for a great magazine worth paying for.

Takes too long to load. I love FM magazine so I bought a single issue (march 2012). Each page takes about 6 seconds to load. It makes reading a chore as every time you turn the page you need to wait a bit before reading. Sound On Sound does it much better & their mag is actually interactive. FM is simply scans of the print version. I'd rather pay a lot more for a physical copy in a store then try reading this on the iPad.

Great content, crap app. The content of the magazine is great, but the app crashes a lot, is slow and not really interactive. I think it deserves better technology.

Dude, it's a magazine.. Most magazines you buy in a newsstand in real life are twice as expensive. I like how that one user out it, "walking by a news stand is free, reading the material is not." YES, the newsstand is a free app NO not everything is free. (life lesson right there)

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Can’t get my latest issue!. The app wants to charge me again for the latest issue I have paid for with my subscription.

Mr.David Luong. It is a very good things for my iPhone4

Runs smoothly lots of content. App runs well and there are plenty of back issues at cheap prices to keep you busy.

Love the mag but.... I love the content and have been a long time reader, BUT the app is buggy and crashes regularly, and the recommended way of fixing it is deleting and starting again. Shame that the mag apps are so clunky to get to read a magazine. As for the content....keep it up

I like it. I find it great! I like that the pages of the magazine become alive and interactive. I’d like to be able to read the mag on my computer, not just my iPad. But it’s great that it’s more stable than it used to be too.

Extra content Hidden from paid users. I've been reading FM Mag for 10+ years before going digital and sadly I miss the extra content with the digital version. Its non-existent unless you search through the magazine to find secret words and log in online and give answers. Its so extremely time-consuming, painful and plain stupid especially finding multiple words with every issue. It's utterly ridiculous how your treated like a criminal not a paying customer. Why can't they just send me a link when they notify me of the new issue to download each month? I would much rather download videos too for offline access too - not difficult surely?App has been buggy for a while so delete app and reinstall as suggested and wipes off my entire library - very frustrating !!

A great magazine!. Very happy that I can now get the print edition of Future Music on my iPad. Wonderful design and great reviews and information.

Awesome app. Awesome app now with video access! How do you access the download samples?

thezizz. Awesome mag, the 'in the studio' vids are the best part now you can watch them inside the app. Would be nice to be able to download them for offline viewing, vids are too big for 3G watching :(

Nag prompts.. Apps that bug you constantly to rate them deserve 1 star.

Free, but comes with a price. Don't waste you're time with this one...

Great content, terrible read.... These magazines are nothing more than a scan of their print version. A pain to read on any iOS device, constantly zooming in and out. 'Sound on Sound' is fantastic on these devices and would recommend FM use their 'futuristic' minds to do something like this.

Fantastic and at a great price!. I've been reading this mag for years but has always been quite hard to get a hold of and at a reasonable price (in Aus). I've been subscribing directly to FM to the UK for a while now, but this has made it much more accessible and now with the digital content being made available through FM it's a must have.

Great that all content is included now, BUT. Too bad it isn't downloading! ARRRRRR! :-(

Way over priced!. Too expensive!, And more importantly it comes with none of video or sample content you get with the magazine. Don't bother

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Won't Restore Purchases!. New update came, which fixes... NOTHING. After all that waiting, the app still asks me for my password many times, I type it and in, and still nothing downloads, nothing about this update appears to have changed. Maybe they thought the problem was all in the user's mind? Support is horrible. Haven't heard back after contacting them a week ago about not being able to restore my 7 subscriptions, the iPad currently says 6, and my iPhone says 7. I've tried restarting, deleting the app, all of the things they recommend, nothing. They'd better come out with a fix soon for this.

Great content but not optimized for iPad. You have a kind of PDF porting of the print version. No links for extra content included in the cd that goes with the print version ( it's supposed to come in a future update ). Double tap zoom 2X the center of the page and does not automatically zoom on the place you are tapping, as it is usually with a good iPad implementation. Excellent content since it's the same thing as the print version, but tedious to read.

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Deceptive and expensive. Much easier to just 'borrow' the magazine/cd from the store... Since now I don't feel bad about it after this app borrowed my time by deceptive practices.

Pointless.. Why list this as free? There is nothing free about it. No sample articles, issues - nada. Deleted.

Outstanding App and Mag. Great app and mag for any musician/producer/dj of any type.

Not a smart move. As a musician that reads the physical version of this magazine this is not the way to get new customers. Maybe I would subscribe to this but I'd like to check it out first with an actual copy to evaluate. Epic Fail.

WHAMMY. Total setup - I should've read the other reviews before downloading this....

Crashing on IOS8. Please fix this.

It's a Ok app. It's a Ok app. Not a lot of articles about hip hop and R&B. Even less about Reggae.

Great magazine!!!. Fantastic magazine with great video tutorials!

Not free. Says its free yet you have to buy in order to have any content once app is installed. Boo.

I can't download. I get 2 issues in my iPad and I can't get it on my Iphone.

No Me Gusta. Y U NO offer free sample?!

For real people. 1. $65 for a 1 yr subscription is pathetic. Get real. 2. Why are you all thinking this is free? The APP is free. IT'S A MAGAZINE YOU PAY FOR MAGAZINES. 3. Don't don't go blowing off on Apple. THEY didn't price it. THE MAGAZINE COMPANY DID.

Meh. Nothing to see here...

Not free. Crooks

Not free. You have to subscribe. Not even an initial free issue to get a sense of the mag.

Still. Doesn't. Work.. Update has changed nothing. Still getting the "No products found" message. I give up.

Not really free, not even a preview. Totally bunk- not even a preview issue?

Amazing. Amazing mag. Idk why people are complaning. You obvi have to pay for a mag subscrption

Not free.. All you're downloading is the ability to subscribe. You can do that from Safari, making this subscription quite pointless...and lame.

are you all Mad?. what you other Reviewer write about "it's not free?"... have you guys downloaded another magazine app? they are all free to install and later you subscribe. before giving 1* ratings I would try to check if it makes sense what you write... and now to the mag: it's a little bit cheaper then the hardcopy mag which is def acceptable... sad that the covermount cd isn't available for download, but I guess that's just not possible yet (flash, mb, apple...)... other than that you get exactly what you want... the mag... and this mag rocks! :)

Scam app. If your app says free but you have to pay to do anything with it then it's not a free app. Total bs.

Misleading. Great mag... Unfortunately this app is a bait & switch. The mag is NOT free. Lame!

Doesn't Work. Do not buy this app doesn't lift bro. Can't even get past the download screen. How am I supposed to drop the bass if I can't make it.

Deserves a lower rank than "1 Star". These mag apps by @FutureUS are all garbage. No sample content, no "welcome to the neighborhood" freebies, no reason to spend $7 on something you can't take for a test drive. I wouldn't be surprised if the content is just oversized print edition PDF slides...... but I don't really know that for sure, because I deleted them already.

Current subscribers?. Dear fm I'm already a subscriber can I get a digital copy? 5 stars if so :)

If you want it for free. Go to your local magazine stand and steal it off the rack.

Great Magazine, Consistently Crashes in iOS 8. I have and iPad 3 running iOS 7, and an iPad Air 2 running iOS 8. All issues will launch and run fine on the 3. I can pay and download on the Air 2, but I can't launch a single issue. Please fix this in a future update (it's much more pleasurable reading other magazines on the Air 2).

Why?. C'mon guys, at least give a free issue to get started... Fail...

Great Mag. Love it

Useless.. The 'app' is nothing but a solicitation to buy one of their two offerings.

Total bait and switch. Don't waste your time unless you want to pay $6.99 an issue.

Misleading. This is not free

The best. Yes!

Not great!. Scanning the magazine does not cut it!! surely you have the capability to provide a more interactive product.

When free is not free. There is no free content here. Just the ability to buy issues. Unassuming it's a mistake and will up my review when it's fixed.

Not Free. This rag requires a paid subscription.

What a joke haha. Not free. How do I just delete news stand all together??

No it's not Free.. Right.

P U. Please.

Brilliant magazine. This is the top notch magazine for electronic music producers - amazing in all levels.

Not free!!!!!!!. This is not free!!!!!!!!

Newspaper. This new app is very cool. I like it a lot! Apple did a good job! 5 stars!

bogus. scam. not FREE. deleting. 0 stars.