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Concluding lump of our introduction to blowy things and horn sections.

the birth of the saxophone

Brass Sounds

Creating and playing brass sounds.

Little boy blue, come blow up your horn — but first, read this introduction to blowing saxes etc.

Brass/string/organ machine

The Art Of Arranging

Ian Gardiner gets out the manuscript paper and tells you how to spread those blobs around

String/brass/32 memory programmable poly combo

Keyboards

Alright Jacks Guitar Lead

Leading Us Astray.... Alright Jacks Guitar Lead

Keyboards

Fed up with those boring 'preset' things that everyone else uses? Turn to page 20 rapido.

Paul Henderson on the solo Sting's latest thing — a six-piece Jazz band.

Starting this month, we invite you to send in some new or exciting patches for your synth.

Patches for the Yamaha DX21, Roland MKS80, Casio CZ101 and Ensoniq ESQ1 make up this month's selection of readers' sounds for you to try for yourself.

cure-it check list for broken boxes

On this month's RE:MIX mixed-mode CD...

The words behind the sounds on this month’s CD and CD-ROM

Volume 1 - Drums

If you're bored with your sampler's factory disks or simply can't find a decent snare drum to sample, then Syndromic Music's 'Star Samples' may well prove the ideal solution. Mark Jenkins assesses their range of sampled sound cassettes.