Hints, tips & news from the world of Music Software

Hints and tips for users of Twelve Tone Systems' Cakewalk for Windows and Gajits Breakthru.

After the disaster that was the Linn 9000, why would anyone want to build another combined sampling drum machine and sequencer. Rick Davies has the answer.

An original Electro-Music Transcription

Listening to this album/single track alone, the music appears complex and hard to analyse. With this score in front of you, the picture instantly changes and the skill of the composer is revealed.

Resotek Virtual Wave Software

Martin Russ investigates a software synthesis program that offers a wealth of new sounds for under £100.

Gajits' budget sequencer moves over to the Amiga and is joined by the company's new Hit Kit software. Ian Waugh plays along.

Not quite a name, not quite a musical instrument, but a useful tool for sampling and investigating sound with the help of a BBC B computer, a couple of controls, and some friendly advice from Uncle Ian Waugh.

Effectscheck

A simple delay pedal at first glance but Dave Burrluck discovers its true possibilities

Window Recorder

An AMS quality sampler

16-Bit Sampler

This 16-bit stereo sampler promises more than just an improvement in sound quality over the earlier Prophets. Rick Davies reckons it could set a new standard in user interfaces.

Studio Test

A sampling kit for under £30. Curtis Schwartz discovers the noise of art

Andrew Banner explores the possibilities of internal sound sequencing on the Atari ST

Tony Hastings brings you his third instalment of Mirage hints and tips which begins to unravel the confusion that surrounds the use of the MASOS functions - including 'ramp scaling'.

How To Get The Most From Your Sampler

mixed-mode CD tracklist

What’s on this month’s mixed mode CD/CD-ROM

Sampling

Sampling is the subject this time: we turn the technical phrases into real language.

LSW Poolside Drums Sampling CD

David Mellor tastes a hot product from the London Sample Workshop.

Sampler

Akai's popular S900 sampler has appeared on more records and in more studios than you can name. Simon Trask takes an early look at the S900's successor, the 16-bit, 16-voice S1000.

Martin Russ returns with a light-hearted look at a serious subject - sample looping - and passes on a few handy tips for those of you that are having difficulty with your sampling machines.

Ann Owen samples the potential of the A3000, courtesy of High-Note