What every good keyboard player - and keyboard roadie — should know about where not to hit a synth.

More About Microphones

Dave Simpson winds up the section on microphones with a few words on impedance matching and balancing

Compusonics digital home recording system should be with us by the end of the year. This is a first report on a system that could be the death knell of the portastudio.

Craig Anderton checks out this new trio of pocket-sized MIDI accessories.

Geoff Nicholls' drum column batters ahead and considers the skills behind timing.

Software for the Atari ST

A patch librarian that can be tucked away as a desktop utility. Chris Jenkins boots up this American software for the Atari ST.

Used effectively, quantisation can do much more for your sequenced music than simply cleaning up a sloppy playing technique. Craig Anderton supplies some helpful guidelines...

Martin Russ takes out his soldering iron and creates the MIDI Monitor - an unbelievably useful gadget for anyone with a MIDI set-up of any kind.

MIDI Patch bay

Do you need a MIDI patchbay in your studio? Or a MIDI merger? Or both? Vic Lennard discovers that the XR400 solves more problems than he suspected. How's the software-reviewers elbow, Vic?

GraphTech Guitar Saddles, EMO E445 Cable Tester

Review.

Thanks for the Memory?

Paul Overaa continues his series on the MIDI standard with a look at channel messages

Ivory-free piano and the digital grand...

Craig Anderton offers some valuable hints and tips to help liven up your synthesizer's factory presets.

How Recording Musician can benefit teachers involved in the technology of music and sound recording.

A Series By Warren Cann.

In the second part in our series on successful sample looping Chris Meyer concentrates on the mysteries and subtleties of crossfade looping.