Korg DSM1 & E-mu SP1200

Are the latest samplers from Korg and E-mu Systems really new instruments, or are they simply updates on old machines? Lorenz Rychner counts the bits and checks the clocks.

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

life histories for Gibsons jazz guitars

Dealer of the Century

The pride of the North, Kitchens are celebrating their centennial.

New York was the setting for the 83rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, where audio manufacturers gathered to show off their new wares. Craig Anderton provides a rundown of the main highlights.

Pocket Filter, Pedal & Merge

What's the size of a fag pocket, comes in enough varieties to ease almost any studio problem and isn't covered by British drug laws? Vic Lennard investigates a new line in MIDI effects.

Multi-tracking and Overdubbing

This month we examine basic multitrack techniques including overdubbing and drop-ins, and explain about sync.

Frankfurt Musikmesse 1989

Rain, sub-zero temperatures and sleazy hotels - who'd go to Frankfurt if it wasn't for the trade show? Simon Trask finds more than warmth and shelter at the Musikmesse.

Basscheck

It's made out of wood, in England; it hasn't got a tremolo unit, but it has got a body and a headstock. Dave Burrluck marvels

Version 3.0 Software

Is it still ahead of it's time?

Pitch

GuitarCheck

Busy Dave Burrluck, back again to bend a string or two on the new JHS. Encore!

Take an eight-track tape deck and a 128-track MIDI sequencer and you've got the basis of 2nd Sense studio. Nicholas Rowland visits a studio taking full advantage of what modern technology has to offer.

While Paul Bacon looks at the UK companies that have received worldwide acclaim

Basscheck

Dave Burrluck passes judgement on a carbon fibre-necked original. Not a carbon copy at all.

Fun and Frolics

Part three, and the introduction of a double-triggering circuit that enables more than one sample to be triggered without the user having to buy multiple EPROMs.

Electronic Drum Module and Super Pads

To complete their recent flurry of new products, the Cambridgeshire company have come up with a programmable drum synth module and a set of 'Super Pads' specially designed for it. Nigel Lord takes the system for a trial run.

And you thought PCM was a medical complaint...

Questions! Answers!

EMU ESI-32

Affordable sampling from an original thinker

Careers In The Music Industry

The first in a series exploring careers and opportunities in the audio industry, starting at the world-famous Abbey Road studios.

The amazing musical instrument interface

4 Channel Multitrack Tape Deck

Now it can be told. Martin Sheehan tells reporters of his secret life with a Teac A3440.

Softmuse Auto Composer