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Drumcheck

An abundance of features and digital sounds. Bob Henrit gets down to some serious TOMfoolery

Tim Goodyer pays Genesis' legendary keyboardsman a visit to hear all about life in one of rock's most longstanding and influential bands and their 16th LP.

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.

the experts help

An expert opinion on the export's operation

What made Milwaukee nauseous

HitSound Pascal Gabriel Sample CD

Paul Ireson listens to the first of AMG's Producer Series of sample CDs.

Maxell UDII, Sony UCX-S, That's EM

three new chrome cassettes

Digital Drum Machine

Expandability comes to drum machines, with an affordable unit that offers four ROM expansion slots, plus the added bonus of onboard user sampling. Trevor Gilchrist checks it out.

Tuned Percussion

Part 7: Tuned percussion. Dave investigates the enormous creative potential of sampled sounds within music, and offers his rendition of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'.

Rhythmcheck

£249 buys this little beauty. Bob Henrit, of course, is much cheaper

Music

The price guide to end all price guides. This time, we return to drum machines and electronic drum kits, and find a lot has changed in three months.

Audio Electronics Powered Monitors

A pair of these wouldn't go amiss on the end of anyones mixing console.

Roland MKS-7 Super Quartet

A look at the role of the MKS-7

Alesis D4 16-Bit Stereo Drum Module

Alesis' new D4 offers 500 16-bit drum sounds, external audio triggering and extreme ease of use — what's not to like? Julian Colbeck investigates.

Building on the patterns explored earlier in this series, adding expression is the theme of this month's drum programming column. Nigel "Reet" Lord changes his accent.

Eamonn Percival assesses the atributes of Amstrad's multi-track recorder