Music

New products for the music business

The column that throbs, the finger on the pulse

If you are serious about electronic music, then you'll appreciate this study report.

Rhythm Composer and Digital Keyboard Recorder

A matching analogue/digital drum-machine and digital keyboard recorder come under the gaze of Dan Goldstein and Geoff Twigg.

Vestax MR66 6-Track Recorder and RMC88 Studio Mixer

Put these two together and you have a flexible recording and mixing system.

Formerly one half of Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey have since leapt to the forefront of Britain's avant garde electronic music scene. Interview by Dan Goldstein.

Noise reduction is an essential part of any professional recording; but there's more than one way of providing it and more than one way of using it. Silence is golden to Vic Lennard.

Alchemea

A visit to one of the leading recording colleges

BASIC music loading program for the ZX81

Contractual hassles have kept musician/producer Bill Nelson hopping from one record label to another since the demise of Be-Bop Deluxe, yet he has still managed to record some exemplary albums using the facility of his 16-track home studio. Ian Gilby finds out how he put his new album together.

Wally Badarou gets together with Chas de Whalley and puzzles over their possible family relationship

MicroComposing with Roland

The new MC-202 MicroComposer examined in depth

Digital Programmable Algorithm Synthesiser

Fast Facts for Free

Analogue tape, digital tape or hard disk? All have strengths and weaknesses, some of which are more obvious than others; this comprehensive overview unscrews the inscrutable.

Our regular round-up of whats new in the world of hi-tech music and recording.

(or "Maestro, a little software, please")

New products from the world of recording and synthesis are unveiled in glorious colour

Martin Sheehan explains the workings of audio/visual slide productions.