Improving Your MIDI Environment

Martin Russ concludes his discussion of MIDI environments with an in-depth look at how to create your own profiles in X-Or and Galaxy.

Mixing The Cure

Live Music for the Hi-Tech Musician

Vic Lennard considers the trials and triumphs of storing your synth patches as SysEx files within the sequences they're intended for, and concludes that MIDI really is your friend after all.

Studio Test

The Tanrack system — no, not 19" mounting sunbeds but a new and interesting effects package. Jim Betteridge slaps on the Bergasol

whither EMI in the 1960s

Our regular readers' demo page is packed with invaluable tips on how to record the perfect demo.

Cheap guitars, new samplers, drum machines, synths and more - plus free details if you want them

The birth of HM jazz?

Simply Red: Two Shows In One

Live Music for the Hi-Tech Musician

Software for the Atari ST

When it comes to sound editing on today's synth modules, there's no alternative to using a software editor. Vic Lennard explores the benefits of Steinberg's editor for the E-mu Proteus.

If you're a complete newcomer to the world of synthesisers, this is the series for you. Steve Howell takes a beginner's look at filters.

Lexicon PCM70

Paul White gets to grips with the first digital reverb to be fully touch-sensitive over MIDI, and finds it throws a whole load of additional effects into the bargain.

A look at the aftermath ot this year's Trade Fair

If you rely on the electric guitar in your recording but daren't annoy the neighbours, then this is what you've been dreaming about.

No IM, No Comment

Not a household name perhaps, but this man is behind quite a lot of musical projects that you will no doubt recognise - as Janet Angus explains.

Oceanic interviewed

Merseyside's pop trio on presets, jingles, Nirvana and 2 Unlimited

Paul Gilby returns with the series that takes a behind the scenes look at companies and design personnel working in the field of music and recording technology. This month: Marvin Caesar, President of Aphex Systems USA - creators of the legendary Aural Exciter.

The amazing musical instrument interface

Having been involved with a bewildering number of projects in the past, Patrick Moraz and Graham Edge, keyboardist and drummer with The Moody Blues talk about their current work.

DrumCheck

A cardboard kit? That doesn't need tuning? And professionals love? Bob Henrit has the facts

Outcast by the classical fraternity in his native Sweden, Stig Miölssön has come to Britain in search of acceptance for his revolutionary ideas. Tim Goodyer learns about cut-up classics.

Atari ST Sampler

Turning your ST into a sampler is one way of getting into sampling on the cheap. Ian Waugh sounds out an improved version of Microdeal's successful Replay sampler.

N.A.M.M. Winter Market at Anaheim

A special guitar report from the N.A.M.M. show