Signal Processors - Frequency Response Modification

Phil 'DIYal-a-disc' Walsh delves into the world of frequency response modification

Power Amplifier

Compared to a critical appraisal by Ben Duncan, the Spanish Inquisition was about as daunting as an old lady asking the time.

The Integrated Graphic EditoR

You don’t have to be a KCS owner to benefit from Tiger. If your Atari sequencer lacks graphical editing facilities but implements MIDI files, then real-time editing of sequence data is still possible. Chas Stoddard explains all.

Controller Keyboard

As synth and sampler expanders become more popular, the demand for an affordable master keyboard increases. Simon Trask puts Cheetah's latest - and best test.

for Rock 'n' Roll

Ben Duncan looks at the design philosophy behind a modern power amplifier. If you don't understand it just be seen reading it and it will improve your credibility.

Use the Sinclair ZX Spectrum to create sophisticated digital envelopes.

MK 80 Electronic Piano

In its day the Fender Rhodes changed the course of musical progress; now Roland have resurrected and improved Harold Rhodes' classic electric piano. Simon Trask plays on...

MIDI Master Keyboard/Piano Sound Board

Take a well-facilitated MIDI master keyboard and add a piano module and you have the basis of Akai's MX1000 - a "dumb" controller with a voice. Simon Trask plays and listens.

Those strangely shaped metal and plastic things that you clamp to the guitar neck to change key, you know? You do now

MIDI Percussion Controller

The indisputable leader of the gang

Master Keyboard Controller

Two new master keyboards from Elka change Deborah Parisi's mind about the merits of silent keyboards.

iPD Digital Synthesiser

Casio's latest synthesiser employs the successor to the company's own PD synthesis system - interactive Phase Distortion. Bob O'Donnell investigates a new phase in synthesis.

Ben Duncan waxes lyrical in his own immortal style.

Control Room

A last look at how to extend the low bass response of your studio monitors.

Total Percussion Pad

On the trail of Roland's successful Octapads comes the SPD8 - a MIDI percussion controller with a neat line in onboard sounds. Simon Trask says beat it.

Ben Duncan, the sultan of solder, subjects the concept of room equalisation to further scrutiny.

In the second part of this series, Ben Duncan discusses different types of mains filters and their applications.

MIDI Programmable Graphic Equaliser/Real Time Analyser

The new Peavey Autograph not only analyses your EQ problems, it fixes them too! David Mellor investigates.

Find out everything you need to know about life on and around the average guitar neck

Computerscope

John Renwick gets his paws on the graphic sequence editor from Dr T