An Introduction to the Use of Sequencers

An introduction to the use of the perennial tools of the electronic composers trade. With some explanation of programming from music and notation.

Swing

Real-time Sequencing

Paul Wiffen gives some useful tips on how to record sequences in real time.

More on Using Sequencers

The last instalment, not only of Steve Howell's look at using sequencers, but also of the series as a whole.

Tangerine Dream's rhythm man describes his sequencer set-up

Using Sequencers with Modular Systems

In something of a break from tradition, Steve Howell begins a look at how using a modular synth can expand the horizons of the common or garden monophonic sequencer.

Using Sequencers with Modular Systems

More about modular sequencing and the effects it can be used for. Steve Howell educates.

Using Sequencers with Modular Systems

Steve Howell looks at different methods of triggering modular sequencers from click-tracks on tape.

Production Tips & Techniques

The first of a regular column where the expert teaching staff of the Gateway School Of Recording & Music Technology answer readers' problems.

Strangler's keyboard commandant Dave Greenfield tells us why he's Waved goodbye to his Hammond.

Just as MIDI itself has gone far beyond what its developers imagined, so MIDI Time Code has the potential to take MIDI technology into areas quite removed from the synthesis and sequencing worlds in which it has become so familiar. MTC user Paul D. Lehrman explains how.

Making the necessary arrangements

A chorus line or two

19 ways to the top: exclusive

Mac Sequencer

Sequencing software for the Macintosh has tended to be be either high-spec and highly priced, or entry-level budget ware. Have Dr. T found a happy medium with Beyond? Matthew Newman investigates.

IT's guide through the MIDI jungle

Rated as the world's top solo synth performer, Klaus explains how he composes on stage and in the studio

The young chart hopefuls share a few giggles with Jonathan James

Gordon Matthewman's interests in hi-tech and his horn have found him in some of the most unlikely musical settings with his project Blow. Simon Trask blows another man's trumpet.

Life on the road with a successful pop band, described in graphic detail by King keyboardsman Mick Roberts. Interview by Tim Goodyer.

Forsaking guitars and drums for a wall of keyboards and racked modules, Sub Sub turned a home studio into a hit factory. ‘Ain’t No Love (Ain’t No Use)’ peaked at Number 3 and took everyone by surprise - except Phil Ward, who heard the single pre-release and contacted the band immediately.