Who, What, Where & When...

Who's Where, What's What

Bono's boys give away a few secrets from the Fire department, Adrian Deevoy and Philip Bashe team up and get close to the Edge

New Gear & Hot Tips

In engineering and production - as in musicianship - flexibility and adaptability are precious qualities. Martin Rex has covered artists as varied as Neneh Cherry, Fela Kuti and Michael Nyman - Ollie Crooke listens.

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Summer Holiday On Stage

News and new products.

The Mix's terrestrial bulletin board

Looking for a low-cost introduction to synthesis? With its simplified programming method and variant on the Phase Distortion sound, Casio's latest 8-voice, splittable, polysynth could well prove the ideal first choice. Mark Badger explores...

Vintage technology strikes back

...including The A-Z of Analogue

Putting It Together

The nitty gritty of choosing appropriate recording and sequencing equipment for use in a school environment.

Sequencer For Windows

Passport's proven Master Tracks Pro sequencer now runs under Windows on the PC. Brian Heywood puts the latest version through its paces.

Janet Angus and Mark Dearnley discuss various facets of the recording industry including his production work with AC/DC.

Yamaha ProMix 01

Groundbreaking digital mixer

With the New Miracle Ingredient - STG

Another year, another host of hardware to look back on. We take you through the goodies and the baddies that came out during '84, just in case you missed any of them.

More than a decade and a half after they first fell out of Manchester, New Order's most married couple are still at the nerve-centre of the band's activities. Helping them come to terms with it all - Phil Ward

Playing Live

Electronic music live - a special focus

The long-awaited inclusion of a protocol to allow MIDI control of multitrack tape machines is just one of the recent additions to the MIDI spec. Vic Lennard offers a MIDI update.

Delightful Dobros, Scintillating C-Ducer, Luscious Lighting, Captivating Canons and much more super schmutter

Software for Apple Macintosh

Our resident Mac user Martin Russ steps his way enthusiastically through two of the best written software packages for the Apple Macintosh computer [in this part] - 'Performer', a comprehensive multitrack sequencing program.

Hard Disk Recording System For The PC

Why is there such a fuss about this British-made multitrack hard disk recorder? Read our review to find out...