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Digisound PK1 PitchTracker

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Apr 1986

Most pitch-tracking machines cost a second mortgage to get hold of, but Digisound's new offering offers CV/Gate compatibility for around £200. Paul White has the details.

ART Multiverb

Review | Sound On Sound, Jan 1989

In this age of the preset, you need all the help available to stamp your personality on the sounds you produce. Paul Ireson finds a new ally in the fight for individuality - ART's fully programmable, four-effects-at-once signal processor.

Intelligent Music

Review | Music Technology, Mar 1987
Software for Apple Macintosh

After the Jam Factory comes "M", an advanced music composition and manipulation system for the Mac. Jim Burgess investigates a variation on the theme of MIDI recording.

Siel PX Electronic Piano

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Feb 1984

A ten preset voice electronic piano with touch sensitive keyboard and separate bass section.

E-Bow

Review | Recording Musician, Aug 1992
Electric Guitar Bow

Writing on the Wall

Feature | Topic: Live, Marketing / Promotion | Phaze 1, May 1989

all publicity is good publicity - and even with limited funds, your band can still have a great image

In the Sticks with Promuco

Feature | Topic: Design, Development & Manufacture | In Tune, Dec 1985

On The Beat - Part 29

Feature Series | Music Technology, Apr 1992

Soaking your drum voices in reverb effects gives great sounds but it makes programming drum patterns much harder. Nigel Lord explains how to fit larger-than-life drums into a song.

News - Guitars

News | In Tune, Jan 1985

Bionic Trumpet

Feature | Topic: Construction / Build, Electronics / Build | Polyphony, Feb 1978

Buzz

News | International Musician, Feb 1986

In a world that's constantly changing

Amiga - Theory And Practice

Feature | Topic: Computing | Electronics & Music Maker, Aug 1986

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?

Russlings

Opinion | Topic: Sampling | Sound On Sound, Mar 1992

Sampling clichés and how to avoid them.

Home Recording Techniques

Feature | Topic: Home Studio, Recording | Sound On Sound, Jan 1989

With a little thought and a few 'tricks of the trade', it is possible to produce top quality recordings at home. David Mellor explains how.

Pick 'n' Mix - Part 3

Feature Series | Topic: Arranging / Songwriting, Drum Programming | Recording Musician, Sep 1992
Recipes For A Tasty Dance Track

Our dance music series continues with a selection of drum patterns, chords, and basslines for you to try out.

MTR 12:8:2 Mixer

Review | International Musician, Aug 1986
Studio Test

Jim Betteridge explores every nuance of the MTR mixer, but still doesn't reveal what MTR stands for

Orchestral Manoeuvres

Feature | Topic: Arranging / Songwriting, Sequencing | Sound On Sound, Aug 1989
Mozart Meets C-Lab Notator

Proving that hi-tech tools are not the sole preserve of pop musicians, Richard Gonski, Music Director of the Electric Symphony Orchestra, tells how he and Francis Monkman took Mozart's Piano Concerto In C Minor, K.491, and sequenced the whole work using C-Lab's Notator.

On The Beat - Part 30

Feature Series | Music Technology, May 1992

Imagine buying a drum machine full of good factory preset rhythm programs - instead of the usual collection of cliches. Nigel Lord offers a solution to pre-programmed predictability.

Jaydee Supernatural GA Bass

Review | In Tune, Apr 1985

A Basic Guide To Acoustic Sound Synthesis

Feature | Topic: Sound Fundamentals, Synthesis & Sound Design | Sound On Sound, Jun 1988

Rudi Cazeaux explores the nature of sound and presents some basic guidelines for synthesizing the various standard groups of acoustic instruments.

A Compositional Method for Electronic Composers

Feature | Topic: Composing / Art | Polyphony, Jul/Aug 1978

Celestion Sidewinders

Review | International Musician, May 1986
SpeakerCheck

The Armoury Show's Russell Webb lends an ear to Celestion's new computer-aided Sidewinders, cheap speakers with a high-class sound

Raising The Standard

Feature | Topic: Computing | Electronics & Music Maker, Aug 1986
MSX Software

Is the Japanese computer standard a dead duck, or will the latest music and video software from Toshiba and Pioneer save the day? Annabel Scott has the answers.

Korg Soundlink

Review | Sound On Sound, Apr 1992
Digital Audio Workstation

Korg are well known for making musical instruments, but the Soundlink takes them into the new field of hard disk recording/editing. David Mellor watches the price of hard disk editors descend to breathable regions of the atmosphere.

Dr T'S T-Basic

Review | Music Technology, May 1990
Software for the Atari ST

Until now writing MIDI software has been the preserve of a few dedicated individuals, but T-Basic offers to make MIDI programming accessible to the masses. Ian Waugh gets online.

 

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