POLY MIDI 1

A budget sequencer

An explanation of terms.

Using Sequencers with Modular Systems

Steve Howell looks at different methods of triggering modular sequencers from click-tracks on tape.

Eight-track reel-to-reel recorder

As 8-track tape recording takes its first steps onto cassette, Fostex introduce another revolutionary idea: the reel-to-reel tape deck with a detachable control panel. Vic Lennard does it from a distance.

SMPTE Processor

For the Pro24 user who found Steinberg's SMP24 a little pricey - David Pickering Pick checks out a dedicated synchroniser that should keep everything in time without breaking the bank.

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

A Series By Warren Cann.

Ministudio

Is there still room for a little old style analogue technology? Tascam offer evidence for the defence

our answers to the common cassetting problems

our cures for common recording complaints

The first of a regular column where the expert teaching staff of the Gateway School Of Recording & Music Technology answer readers' problems.

A special report on one of Britain's premier avant garde music festivals, Musica Nova.

The C-ducer Acoustic Percussion Trigger.

Cassette Multitracker

Policemen look younger, you start to disown parts of your record collection and, just as surely with the passing of time, entry-level cassette multitrackers sprout more inputs and features. Dave Lockwood tries to keep up with the Fostex X28.

Studios & Recording

For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, before we go to Paradise by way of page thirteen.

Volume 1 - Drums

If you're bored with your sampler's factory disks or simply can't find a decent snare drum to sample, then Syndromic Music's 'Star Samples' may well prove the ideal solution. Mark Jenkins assesses their range of sampled sound cassettes.

Recording Tips

Alan's Answers

SMPTE/FSK Synchroniser

You want to sync your sequencer to tape but the budget's tight and you don't know if FSK code's smart enough or SMPTE code's cheap enough - let Vic Lennard introduce a budget synchroniser that handles both.

Tascam Porta One 4-track

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