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Giddy young thing Paul Bacon talks to Vertigo about their hopes of scaling the heights of success, the demo-tape route

Andy Williams? Bobby Goldsboro? Cleo Laine? Terry Hall? Toby Lyons? Adrian Deevoy?

To Open My Mouth

hard disk recorder

Direct-to-disk recording from the sample stable

Instruments beyond twang and bang

This little brother to the SBX-80 overcomes a host of syncing problems.

A Series By Warren Cann.

Jim Betteridge lets his hair down, and gets down with the Deaf-Defying ones.

MTRs new 12:8:2 Series 2 in-line desk should solve a few cash flow problems for 8-track owners.

Korg's DS8 presented FM synthesis in a more friendly light than originators Yamaha. Now their latest synth makes the price more friendly too. Simon Trask looks at a sine of the times.

Some Thoughts About Contemporary Music

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Quietly but surely, synchronisation codes have become an essential part of MIDI recording, but what's all this SMPTE and FSK stuff really about? Chris Many looks at the different sync codes and why we need them.

Digital Audio For The Atari ST

Kendall Wrightson examines an inexpensive Atari-based tapeless recorder offering digital audio editing, plus MIDI controlled hard disk recording with Notator/Creator, Cubase/Cubeat or Virtuoso.

Oceanic interviewed

Merseyside's pop trio on presets, jingles, Nirvana and 2 Unlimited

Alan Hoida looks into the postproduction stage of making a pop video.

Shadow MIDI Guitar

Geoff Twigg takes a look at the latest guitar synth technology. Now you can have a Synclavier system behind the strings of your old acoustic.

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.

Thomas Dolby explains his new strategy

An IM Investigation

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