Build a home recording studio

Blue Canamp

Colourful headphone amplifier

In the second of an occasional series, Bass takes a look at his favourite five synth classics

Dod 944 Chain Reaction

On the rack again!

Part 4 of our series for FM synth owners, in which Martin Russ gives away even more secrets of FM programming. Operators at the ready!

NAMM Report

American software engineer Chris Meyer submits a personal, highly subjective and utterly biased report on Chicago's summer music extravaganza. Well, he was only there for a day.

London Rock Shop

Lexicon Vortex

Morphing FX box

The Next Generation

A new generation from Roland

Tense, nervous headache? Then you've probably got a patching problem in your studio. Vic Leonard looks at a cost-effective solution to MIDI-patching nightmares.

Digital Stereo Sampler

Having set the music industry standard in sampling with their S1000, Akai are now taking moving pictures into their stride. Simon Trask gets frame-accurate on the S1100.

Aces B1816

A cost effective in-line mixing console aimed at the budget 16-track user.

Where everything clicks

Your questions answered

Nigel Jopson fields Zinovieff's rotten eggs.

The hardware sequencer to beat them all? After an overlong wait, Simon Trask gets to grips with the latest development in the Alesis World Domination plan.

Sold on the 3-Minute Song

Erasure's fifth album sees the duo of Vince Clarke and Andy Bell going from strength to strength, delivering electro-pop at its finest. But the doyens of synthesizer pop recorded Chorus with almost no MIDI instruments at all. Vince Clarke tells Paul Ireson how he made a hit album with 10-year old technology.

Simon Trask gets a sneak preview of this German organ manufacturer's first venture into the pro-synth market.

Roger Brown continues his exploration of the Interactive Phrase Synth...

Digital Synth Module

The Wavestation A/D takes the digital and vector synthesis systems of its popular parent and adds analogue inputs. Simon Trask reports on the continued evolution of one of today's most flexible synths.

CD ROM player

Surrounded by sample disks? Swamped by sounds? Paul Ireson takes a look at Roland's new CD5 CD ROM player, the next step up in sound library management for S550 sampler owners, and a taste of things to come for everyone else.

The Reverb Revolution Continues

Don't spend your Christmas money until you've read this! We bring you an exclusive in-depth review on Alesis' new secret weapon: a 16-bit, studio quality, digital reverb for little more than the cost of a spring unit.

for Your Analog Keyboard or Sequencer

Korg DW8000 Polysynth

Korg's flagship poly gets a touch-sensitive keyboard, a built-in DDL, and a lot more besides. Simon Trask concludes it’s what the DW6000 should have been all along.

for Atari ST Computer

One of America's most innovative software houses comes up with its first program for a 16-bit computer, the Atari ST. Rick Davies takes it for a spin.