Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

New software, updates, sounds, and samples

Really Big Men

The band tipped to make it BIG in '88. Tim Goodyer talks to a DJ/keyboard player with a unique place in rock 'n' roll and a singer/guitarist who's going to make Madonna and Lita Ford look like Dot Cotton and Hilda Ogden.

Eamonn Percival looks at string machines past and present

Vintage technology strikes back

...Including The A-Z of Analogue

Vintage technology strikes back

The retro-lover's playground

David Ellis buys a Commodore Amiga and looks at the latest software written for it. The music is good, the graphics are better - but what does the future hold?

Expander modules may be the modular synths of our age, but are they as good? Steve Howell explores the Akai VX90 and provides some guidance on how it can be used with Akai's range of sampling machines.

Where To Hire The Things You Cant Afford To Buy

Where to hire the things too expensive to buy.

Take the Fostex X15, restyle it, add new features, raise the price by the cost of a dirty weekend in Blackpool and you've got their new X30 multitracker. Nicholas Rowland finds out if they're on the right track.

While most of us spend our time trying to get our MIDI equipment to work together properly, Martin Russ reveals how to creatively mis-use MIDI and produce some interesting musical results.

An expert's opinion better than an exploding onion

Martin Russ looks at solutions to the perennial problem of where to put all those keyboards that MIDI musicians accumulate.

Tittle-tattle on the hurly-burly

Yamaha DX7S

A story in which our hero, David Mellor, deserts the path of enlightenment and sells his DX7 Mk1 for a rival keyboard. Can the DX7S tempt him back to the true faith? Read on...

Part 2, ARP to Buchla. Buchla? Yep, Buchla

for Ensoniq EPS16+/ASR10

Metro Sound Studiosamples sound disks for the Ensoniq EPS16+ and ASR10

Programmable Dual Channel Polyphonic Synthesiser

Part 3, Chadacre to Crumar

Eurythmics, Mike Batt

Cheetah MS6 Multitimbral Analogue Synthesizer

Seems like everyone has been waiting to get their hands on this low-cost 6-voice, multitimbral, analogue synth expander. Martin Russ looks at the affordable face of technology.