A no-nonsense, standard format split recording console at a sensible price.

Guitar

If I were to say, 'Dave Blake isn't, in the same way as the Redmere Soloist combo is,' you'd probably wonder what on earth I was talking about. So I won't.

electronic percussion

Marshall History & George Martin's Music Books for Looks

What about a six'n'twelve-string on it? Dave Blake considers Shergold's rights and wrongs.

Digital Drums

Intriguing cries of "hit me" from the recording studio have been traced to Yamaha's new DD11 percussion controller. Simon Trask asks, can it be beaten?

This cost-effective sequencing package from Passport comes ready to run on all the popular music computers. Ian Waugh checks out the newest relative in the MasterTracks family.

Looking for a high-quality, lightweight live monitor system for your keyboard rig? Ian Sherwood discovers Celestion's SR series knocks out the watts.

A 2-page Paracetamol for your technical headaches.

Music Publisher

Aimed at the professional scorewriter, this scorewriting program for the Atari ST goes a long way towards making complex scores easy to handle. Ian Waugh goes public.

Guitarcheck

Dave Burrluck tests the top of the Westone range

Mikecheck

Can you hear him at the back? Phil Walsh sounds off about TOA's new VFM mikes

Studio Test

Cheap and effective, like our own spring chicken Jim Betteridge

Yet another show. Organised by the Audio Engineering Society, this 4-day show displayed the latest advancements in recording technology.

Yamaha's DX7 may well be a classic keyboard but its MIDI implementation and small onboard memory are starting to look decidedly limited compared to newer generation keyboards. What's needed is an upgrade, and the add-on E! board from America's Grey Matter Response is certainly that! Martin Russ enthuses over its features.

Positive superlatives all over the place as Dave Blake's rhetoric embraces a couple of Ibanez instruments.

By combining their 64-track 'Creator' MIDI sequencer with a set of powerful new features and a scorewriter, C-Lab have produced arguably the most sophisticated music notation package to date for the Atari ST. Ian Waugh supplies the notes...

...and Phil South has a hard time with his Amiga.

Arranging/Sequencing Software

Martin Russ tries adding a French accent to his music, with Feeling Partner's blend of arranging, harmonising and sequencing for the ST.

Atari ST Software

In the second half of this definitive review. Nigel Lord looks into the editing and scorewriting facilities of Steinberg's latest sequencing software.

A New Reverb Standard

Hot on the heels of their impressive DPS-D7 digital delay comes the latest single effects unit from Sony. As the DPS-R7 reverberates, David Mellor adjudicates.