certain weird inventions in the name of music

Video Makers In Action

The Watershed Arts video production unit in focus

Dave Lockwood tastes the aural delights of the MIDIVERB's upmarket stablemate - the XTc.

This month’s Checklist turns its attention to the world of electronic drum kits and drum machines. Price guides will never be the same again.

Modular synthesis

A plaintive request for a return to modular synthesis, what it means and what it can do for the creative musician.

Akai S900 Sampler

State-of-the-art sampling at a state-of-the-building society account price.

...of which the most fashionable right now must surely be the conga. Here we present facts, not fashion.

Everything you wanted to know about A&R men - but only MT dared to ask.

Bass synthesizer examined

Optical Media International Universe of Sounds Vol 3 for Emax, DPX1 and Emulator II joins our regular selection of readers' own synthesiser patches in MT's regular Patchwork column.

interacting with the future

Your passport to future worlds

A survey of trendsetters

Gate, Trigger and Clock Pulses

Trigger, gate and clock pulses

ELECTRONIC PATCHBAY

Tantek enters the professional market with a patchbay par excellence.

Steve Howell puts sex, murder and intrigue to one side to make way for a study of modulation in its many and various forms.

Concluding our guide on how to release your own record

A Bad Job

This month we take a look at salvage techniques. What to do when you have to re-mix someone else's less than ideal master tape.

Jack Bruce model meets semi-supreme 14

Drums get beaten, synths tinkled and demos hammered in the encapsulated everything section this month

A review of PA Decoder's D50 ROM Vol II joins patches for the Ensoniq ESQ1, Kawai K1 and Korg DW6000 in this months' selection of readers' sounds.

Quasimidi Quasar

Multi-faceted synth module

Dedicated percussion sequencer

The First Single

and sensible use of mixing time