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2B Or Not 2B

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Nov 1985
UMI 2B Software

The 1B version was good, but Simon Trask has spent a month with its successor, and reckons it deserves its reputation as the most professional sequencing package designed round a home computer.

Absolute Precision

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Jul 1985
UMI-2B

Sequencing interface for the BBC

Acorn 500

Review | One Two Testing, Apr 1985

better noises for the BBC

Acorn Music 500

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Dec 1984
Synthesiser Hardware and Software for the BBC Micro

Acorn's first venture into music synthesis boasts some good-looking synthesis hardware and a music composition language - AMPLE - that grows with the user. David Ellis has the advance details.

BBC News

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Jan 1985
Organ Master/Island Logic

An add-on sound board, and a comprehensive disc-based music system for the Beeb micro.

BBC Synth

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Mar 1984

MuProc software

Beeb Boogie

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Apr 1985
Music Maker

With a package designed to get the most from the micro's own sound chip.

Beeb Breakthrough

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Feb 1985
MUSIC 500

Acorn's MUSIC 500 hardware/software package for the BBC micro could be the revolution micro musicians have been waiting for.

Electromusic Research MIDI Software and Hardware

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Aug 1984
for the BBC Micro

The first commercially-developed MIDI software for the BBC Micro is now being manufactured by Electromusic Research. David Ellis analyses its potential.

Feeding the 5000

Review | Sound On Sound, Jan 1987

Hybrid Technology's Music 500 synthesizer for the BBC B micro gains a '0' and a whole host of new features. Phil South states the facts and wonders why more musicians don't know about the power of this system.

FSOFT music maker program

Review | One Two Testing, Mar 1985

micro-music for the BBC

Hybrid Technology Music 5000

Review | Music Technology, Jan 1987
Computer Music System

Noel Williams compares Hybrid Technology's latest BBC music add-on to its predecessor, the Music 500. Is it the friendlier beast its designers claim it to be?

Island Logic Music Software

Review | One Two Testing, Jun 1985

preview for the Commodore

Island Logic Music System

Review | One Two Testing, Dec 1984

software for a melodic BBC

Rice Drum Software

Review | Music Technology, May 1987

Nothing to do with paddy-fields or Uncle Ben, but Ian Waugh reviewing two versions of a new drum program for the under-used BBC computer. Is it cost-effective?

Softly, Softly

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Apr 1984

A review of 'Keyboards', a software package for the BBC Model B.

Stop, Look and Listen

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Jul 1985
MUSIC 500 Programs

Two new programs for the MUSIC 500

System Exclusive

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Oct 1985
Music System Software

A software package for the CBM64 sets out to utilise the SID chip but involves MIDI along the way. Simon Trask investigates the consequences, now that Island Logic have given way to Firebird.

The Barry Box

Review | Music Technology, Mar 1987

Not quite a name, not quite a musical instrument, but a useful tool for sampling and investigating sound with the help of a BBC B computer, a couple of controls, and some friendly advice from Uncle Ian Waugh.

The Logical Song

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, Jun 1985
ISLAND LOGIC CBM64 SOFTWARE

The Music System - now for the Commodore 64.

The Music System

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Dec 1984
Software Surplus

UMI 1B

Review | One Two Testing, Dec 1984
BBC B music software

software for a sequential BBC

UMI 1B

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Dec 1984
Software Surplus

UMI-2B

Review | Sound On Sound, Nov 1985
A Soft Touch

Jay Chapman discovers why this 16 track MIDI sequencer package for the BBC B micro, described as the musical equivalent of the humble word processor, is receiving so much acclaim from studio users.

UMI-4M MIDI Composition System

Review | Sound On Sound, Sep 1988

Are 8 bits still viable? Martin Russ temporarily abandons his Atari ST for a look at the latest version of this music sequencer package for the BBC micro.

 

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