Mobile One

A spotlight on Europe's largest mobile studio and its home base in London.

A MIDI User Knocks The Knockers!

A MIDI user knocks the knockers! Simon Sanders of Micromagic puts the case for leaving MIDI users alone to get on with making music.

KeyboardCheck

The big sampling surprise from Frankfurt gets the Curtis Schwartz seal of approval

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Rich Bitch Studio

From rehearsal room to recording complex. David Bradwell tells the story of a Midlands musician who hopes to open a nationwide chain of recording studios.

Dave Hutchins compares the traditional and modern methods of recording.

Our regular monthly exploration of upcoming new products.

More hints and tips revealed as the expert teaching staff of London's Gateway School of Recording & Music Technology answer your queries.

Abbey Road Studios

Chris Maillard leaves his shoes off and crosses the zebra to Abbey Road

Brings news of a new British sound sampling drum machine, a digital signal processor from Eventide, and more.

Studio or stage? As technology advances, the traditional distinction between "recording technology" and "keyboard technology" becomes more and more confused - as this years recording show displayed. Report by Simon Trask.

Electrospace The Gate and Strate Gate

The Gate and its Strate companion solve the great noise mystery.

Qualifying for the Music Industry

Planning a career in the music industry? Then you may like to know more about the Music Information Technology course at City University, London. Mike Barnes reports.

Could the arrival of new storage media such as magneto-optical disks change the way we perceive music?

At last! A new system that gives you hi-fidelity sound from a standard video recorder. Could it become the stereo reel-to-reel machine of the future? Judge for yourself.

Why has this top record producer - the man behind Culture Club's phenomenal success on vinyl - given up using the Fairlight in favour of a Steinberg Pro-24 system? Why is he so upset about the myths that surround digital recording? Ralph Denyer went along to Levine's new studio to find out...

AES Report

Dan Goldstein and Paul Wiffen go down and out in Beverly Hills - and drop in on America's biggest recording convention along the way. Within its walls, a quiet revolution is taking place...

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Something Old? Something New?

Closer to home in West Germany, PPG are putting the finishing touches to a new computer music system that could revolutionise the way we go about programming sounds. Dan Goldstein reports.