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Reading MIDI Implementation Charts

If you regard MIDI Implementation charts as being indecipherable tables of numbers, you could be ignoring an easy way of solving your MIDI problems. Vic Lennard opens a series of articles on how to read the small print.

Reading MIDI Implementation Charts

In spite of MIDI's promise of compatibility between hi-tech musical equipment, few of us have found this to be the case. Vic Lennard takes his second look at MIDI Implementation charts and how they can solve your MIDI problems.

Paul Trynka, that's what, on why little amps are sometimes louder than big ones

— Dat is de Question

Paul White does his level best to unscrew the inscrutable.

How songwriting collaboration can equal more than 1+1.

What you can get from a MIDI Implementation Sheet, apart from total bafflement.

The System

The System this month features ZTT engineer Paul Gomersall's MIDI sampler set-up.

The big deal in the small print

Paul Ireson takes a look at a new kind of direct-to-disk recorder, which stores MIDI rather than audio data. Could it be the ideal live sequencer, he wonders?

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.

This month: the Crumar Roadracer to the Dubreq Stylophone! Peter Forrest is your guide

Playing Keyboards With Elton John

Elton John goes on tour this month to promote his new album The One; Julian Colbeck took the opportunity to talk to keyboardsman Mark Taylor about equipment, entertainment, and Elton.

For Spectrum and Amstrad Computers

The would-be Fairlight killer comes under scrutiny at last. Ian Waugh reports on an ambitious add-on for Spectrum and Amstrad micros.

A 2-page Paracetamol for your technical headaches.

IBM PC Software

This combined sequencer and tone editor for the IBM PC will work happily with Roland's MT32 and LAPC1. Ian Waugh looks into a serious PC music system.

A complete guide to all the hardware interfaces for home micros available so far, plus the software that goes with them.

Ben Duncan explains the language of the specification sheet

find out what the small print means