Shure & Beyer Headset Mikes

10-Track Recording Package

Combine two 6-track cassette recorders, one synchroniser and a 12:6:2 mixer, and what have you got? A rather appealing multitrack demo studio from Sansui. David Lockwood reports.

PART 5: In this final installment of the series, David Mellor looks at sophisticated timecode generators and readers in the Fostex range, and at complex timecode systems.

Dave Crombie calculates his chances

Speakercheck

Jim Betteridge pins his ears back and gets his hopes up

Steinberg & Soundbits

Tony Wride investigates the Steinberg and Soundbits Atari-based voice editing programs for the Kawai K1 multitimbral synthesizer.

Music moves in mysterious ways - these LPs for example aren't vinyl or CD, they're floppies for the AMPLE music system. Ian Waugh boots up the boogie.

economy mixing for 12

Sample editing was never so simple thanks to this Mac package

16-bit Home Computer

Not just another home computer; more like the future of the entire domestic micro industry, not to mention the MIDI software one. Simon Trask has the details.

DAT is beginning to take a firm hold in the studio market despite all the controversy. Ed Jones reflects on Digital Audio Tape and roadtests Sony's new TCD-D10 portable recorder.

Samplitude

Budget direct-to-disk recording for PC

Kawai Q80 Sequencer

Kawai's first ever dedicated MIDI sequencer may have to fight hard to make its mark in an already overcrowded market, but it has one major advantage over the competition - its price! Julian Colbeck reports.

Jim Spriggs gives us a more comprehensive look at the first package to come from the Digital Muse

Ambient Corporation

Forget the Fairlights, ditch the D.D.L.'s — ES&CM reader Graeme Robinson shows how you can beat it with the big boys, using just a couple of multitracks.

RTL Event Sync Box

It's that man again! David Mellor enters the mysterious world of timecode and stalks one of its new inhabitants - the Event timecode/MIDI processor from Real Time Logic.

Our regular column devoted to readers’ hints and tips about their recording equipment, instruments, software and playing techniques.

obtaining the best from MIDI sequencers

An interview with the ex-After The Fire keyboard player about his home recording experiences and equipment.

Hints, tips & news from the world of Music Software

Hints and tips for users of Twelve Tone Systems' Cakewalk for Windows and Gajits Breakthru.

Brother PDC100 Sequencer

Martin Russ tries out Brother's latest hardware sequencer.