Ian Gilby looks at how you can programme that 'human feel' into your drum patterns or sequences using another clever device from the Bokse company - the MIDI Humaniser.

Do you use a computer to help you make music? Then why not go the whole hog and use it to keep track of your songs? Vincent Taylor shows that there's more to computer spreadsheets than merely adding up figures.

Hardware and Software for Sinclair Spectrum

E&MM new-boy Simon Trask gets his teeth into a Spectrum-based sampling system that retails for no more than £50.

Vocalist Mick Hucknell sings out about white boys singing the Blues

Will Digital Audio Tape bring digital clarity to domestic tape recording or will the major record companies use it to impose restrictions on what you can do with recordings you've already paid for?

Simple sampling, superb sounds, certain sales

John Cage eavesdropped on the strange noises coming from his own imagination. Geoff Smith and Nicola Walker Smith eavesdrop on the wise words emanating from the man himself, in one of the final interviews of his trailblazing life and the last in MT's exclusive series on modern American composers.

Control Room

Introducing "The Dots"

Dave Stewart matches the dots to frets, keys and the like.

Listen With Mother...

Budget 24-Track

Another instalment of our column devoted entirely to Steinberg software, written and compiled exclusively for SOS by Steinberg's experts.

How to make your own Spectrum sampler for less than £20. The software comes on the tape.

MIDI Disk Recorder

Paul Overaa looks at a unit about to make a big impact on the MIDI scene - The Elka Orla

Build this versatile LED PPM/VU meter project.

Rhythmcheck

An invention to make Bob Henrit's digital 'jogging' watch obsolete

GOSSIP, FIBS, STUFF AND NONSENSE

guess what?

Where everything clicks

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