Copyrighting your songs by Lorna Read (who nicked the idea)

The big deal in the small print

Ignore them at your peril!

Stability, Care and Attention 1975-1985

Kiss

Coverage gets a great big purple Kiss

Funny How Love Is

Fine Young Cannibals changes chopped

Happy Hour

It's Housemartins again

Cut Me Down

Cut Me Down cut up

The Sweetest Girl

The Sweetest Girl, the Coverage version

Boys Don't Cry

RIDERS ON THE STORM

Coverage cops a classic cut

Sharp Dressed Man

ZZ Top grin and beard it

Masterclass - Noise Gates

Using Samplers for Vocals

With a creative mind and a decent digital sampler you can work wonders for your music. Brian Howarth provides a sampling strategy for constructing and manipulating vocal arrangements.

The second part of MT's in-depth examination of the sample CD phenomenon. Simon Harris, Norman Cook, Coldcut, Ed Stratton and Pascal Gabriel confess all to Tim Goodyer.

Sample CDs

First they were sampling off other peoples' records, now they're selling records to sample off. Tim Goodyer listens while Simon Harris, Pascal Gabriel, Norman Cook, Ed Stratton and Coldcut put the case for sampling CDs.

Plectrum Guide

Programming Clinic

Programming Clinic

Few Cubase users take full advantage of its powerful MIDI Mixer module — daunted by its apparent complexity, they pass up the chance to exploit a powerful and flexible MIDI control tool. Ofir Gal presents a practical 2-part guide to customising and using the MIDI Mixer.

Ethnic Instruments

Weird, wonderful and ethnic and you should see the instruments.

New sounds for the Poly 800

Craig Anderton offers some valuable hints and tips to help liven up your synthesizer's factory presets.

Cutting A Record

When push comes to shove - part two of MT's guide to releasing and promoting your own record