Recording Vocals

Part 9: The human voice is the most difficult instrument to record, bar none. David Mellor offers some practical guidance.

Software for Apple Macintosh

After the Jam Factory comes "M", an advanced music composition and manipulation system for the Mac. Jim Burgess investigates a variation on the theme of MIDI recording.

Digital Reverb

This long awaited product is now available and offers first class digital reverb along with a host of stereo DDL effects.

Part 3 of this exciting digital signal processing project offering a 5 second delay program for your Sinclair Spectrum!

Any Questions?

Part 18. David Mellor concludes this 18-part mammoth series on recording techniques with a handy question and answer session.

The second part of our competition requires you to read our review of the Korg EX800/RK100 system, and then answer questions about their respective specifications.

Cheetah MK5 MIDI keyboard

A master MIDI keyboard for under £100 may sound like a joke to you, especially when it is sold by Boots, but Jay Chapman quickly stopped laughing when he plugged it in. Find out why...

(But Were Too Afraid To Ask!)

PART 4: Martin Russ provides some solid examples of how to utilise the hidden power of MIDI’s SysEx commands to reprogramme synths on-the-fly and to store snapshots of all your synth and effects patches on disk.

In the fourth part of the series, Ben Duncan deals with interference and possible remedies for it.

Not so much a budget console as a professional mixing desk at a surprisingly low price.

The benefits of additive synthesis software as a means of imitating natural sounds, creating new ones and tidying up your sample loops. Tom McLaughlin adds it all up.

Maybe we should have called it thingz 'n' stringz

Soundcraft 200SR Mixer

A first rate general purpose live or recording desk that doesn't cost the earth.

Why they won't work and how they do

MIDI mergers - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Don Erskine looks at the uses and misuses of mergers and concludes that two into one will go.

all publicity is good publicity - and even with limited funds, your band can still have a great image

May MIDI Madness

workings of the press part two; dealing with music papers

CEM 3372 - A Versatile Building Block

New CEM 3372 chip applications

In the second part of our series on getting the most from the mix, Paul White offers some advice on using outboard signal processors to their best, er, effect.

An extended feature this month to incorporate many of the new products shown at NAMM and the Frankfurt Music Fair.

Beating Like This

...Beating Like This. In the third part in our series on creative drum programming, Chris Meyer and Matt Isaacson take a detailed look at the various trigger-to-MIDI converters now available.

This month we scrutinise contracts, paying particular attention to the sanity clause.

A Practical Approach