Greengate DS3

With the DS 3 - a sound-sampling expansion for the Apple II computer. Access to expensive sounds at a reasonable price.

Computer cobblers compounded

Systemcheck

The Greengate goes loopy

the cheapest sampling keyboard?

Sound Sampling System for Apple II/IIe

Mainframe's sound-sampling add-on for the Apple is now available to the general public. David Ellis puts the system through its paces.

Loop Create software for the Greengate DS:3.

New looping software for the Greengate DS:3.

The Best of British

Britain's booming hi-tech music industry.

Budget digital sampling at the flick of a switch or two

Additions To Traditions

Tony Mills rips the lid off the latest in the land of the electrode; updates for Yamaha's CX5M, Greengate's DS:3, and the ever-popular Speccy.

Zsa Zsa

Zsa Zsa defected from Hungary to Britain with very little knowledge of English. Now she has her own home studio in London, complete with Greengate sampler.

Spotlighting Katrina Bihari.

Happy Christmas?!

Tony Mills looks back at Xmas 85, to see whether what you got for it was worth getting

Effectscheck

A simple delay pedal at first glance but Dave Burrluck discovers its true possibilities

Studio 99

Richard Walmsley takes a ferry across the Thames to this Woolwich based eight-track facility.

Famed Explorer finds IT!

Simon is both a musician and a producer. This month he talks to Paul White about, amongst other things, his work doing 12" remixes for Nik Kershaw.

Spotlighting Poly Magoo.

...on the making of their video

Always eager to expand their experiences. Mainframe duo Murray Munro and John Malloy talk to Ian Gilby about the processes involved in the shooting of the promo video that accompanied their recent Polydor single release.

The latest developments from the land of the floppy. Tony Mills reports

The Musical Micro

Tony Mills gets up to Yankee panky with some Stateside software

kits, rim shots, playing surfaces