Your chance to check out some of the new products launched at January’s NAMM

Reference Monitor

A very impressive pair of studio monitors at the budget end of the market.

Ensoniq DP/4 Effects Processor

Four into one will go, as Derek Johnson discovers when working with Ensoniq's new four-channel parallel effects processor.

ITs Guide To The British Music Fair

CD ROM and Removable Hard Disk

Never Ending Storage

New amps, effects and mikes from the States

news from the front

newsworthy items for your interest

Aphex Type C, BBE Sonic Maximizer, SPL Vitalizer

Three psychoacoustic enhancers, all designed to make your music sound bigger, clearer and more impressive.

Test on the Best?

Disk Recorder / Sequencer

Mark Jenkins gets to grips with this unassuming dual channel MIDI sequencer from the States and unearths some interesting facts...

ATC SCM10 Compact Studio Monitors

ATC's smallest speakers to date set new standards in near-field monitoring excellence.

More news, views, and a smidgeon of hot gossip!

Flying in the face of fashion, Oberheim's new Matrix-6 polysynth utilises traditional analogue voicing and offers some of the most powerful and versatile sounds around. Keyboards man Paul Wiffen checks out its pedigree.

Full of Audio Promise

Modern developments in audio reproduction

drum synth

Do you like sampled instrument sounds, but hate all of that tedious disk loading, looping and general messing about? Then you'll love Roland's new U110 sample player. Paul Ireson takes it for a spin.

Timing

MIDI Patch Transmitter

This latest add-on for the popular MIDIVERB and MIDIFEX lets you control the effect patch selection remotely by hand. Tony Hastings wishes he had thought of the idea first.

New synthesisers from across the Atlantic

arpeggiator, delay, mixer

They're stylish, they're cute, they're magnetically shielded - but how do they sound?