Digital Bass Guitar

An exciting new digital bass guitar, the Vigier opens up a new world of user recorded sounds for bass players.

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An excursion into the depths of dub with reggae master and sound manipulator The Mad Professor.

hear's to future days

Chris Meyer takes an in-depth look at Oberheim's EPROM burner and reader, and considers its renewed significance in the light of continually evolving MIDI applications.

'It's All Lies!' says cynical Ed!

The Power Station's percussive powerhouse talks. Bill Milkowski puts pen to paper

Micro Electronic mNemonic Teaching Aid

An uphill struggle to unearth the trade secrets of this enigmatic trio, the Cocteau Twins.

Never one to use a word when an acronym will do, Dr T's have christened their new sequencer The Integrated Graphic Editor and Recorder. Glen Darcy puts a Tiger in his tank.

what is digital?

Introducing The Dots...

Is 4 getting you down? Dave Stewart puts rhythm in easy lingo.

Peter Tedstone informs us of his clandestine bedroom activities!

His may be an unfamiliar name, but this avant-garde composer has been writing music that stretches technology to its limits for two decades. Ron Briefel talks to the man about his current passion - Yamaha's X-series equipment.

Lots of info about who has won what

Jay Chapman takes a bold step for novice programmers, as he presents a Pascal program that converts musical note values into a language computers can understand. Don't worry if it leaves you standing.

old-timer considers real time

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

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Auto-Accompaniment — With Style

Martin Russ gets inside version 4.1 of Band-In-A-Box — now with user styles!

Recently voted 'Best Sampler' by SOS readers, Akai's S1000 has quickly established itself as the industry standard 16-bit machine. So who better to reveal the innermost secrets of the instrument than the creator of the new SWM and Workstation sample disks, Akai product specialist Steve Howell. This month he kicks off the series with an explanation of how to take your own samples.

Tuning Up — A Review of VCO Calibration Methods

Tuning and Calibration, Part 2