Trigger Interfacing

A regular column that explains the electronics of music. All you need to know about Trigger Interfacing

What, a revolution in the US? Tony Mills plays foreign correspondent

John Renwick gives in to the temptation of the MTR Series III mixer

Do four things at once with this multi effects processor from Alesis - John Renwick reports

Is it a bird? is it a plane? No it's a rather nifty little patch package as John Renwick finds out

House from home. Nicholas Rowland talks to a British house band who have developed their music from television advertising jingles to chart success.

Back To Basics

Back To Basics: Part 4. After a brief absence, Jay Chapman continues the series where he left off two months ago with a further explanation of how Real-Time commands are used by MIDI.

We meet the trio of men behind the Frank Chickens.

Music Workstation

The cynics will say the W30 is nothing but a repackaging exercise on Roland's part, but Simon Trask looks a little deeper. Do a combined sampler and sequencer make the ideal workstation?

Swim Records

Simon Trask dives into the world of a desktop record label

As more musicians finally begin to wake up to the benefits of using a dedicated master keyboard, Paul Ireson checks out two recent examples from Orla, the DMK7 and DMK8.

Sequencer

Latest in their line of cost-effective gear is Cheetah's MQ8 sequencer. Simon Trask investigates a budget sequencer that incorporates some of the features of the Zyklus MIDI Performance System.

Emagic Notator Logic 1.2

Lowrie Woolf Seqwin V2/Multimedia

Is 'multimedia' the way forward for all sequencers? Lowrie Wolf think so...

Ian Boddy concludes his look at how to take electronic music on the road by examining his own live set-up and how it's put to use in a concert situation.

Darrin Williamson looks at an Amiga sampling package and MIDI interface all in one

The machines that stole the musicians' feel from your music are the same machines that you can now use to restore it - once you know how. Travis Charbeneau investigates the subtleties of the human touch.

Bokse US-8 Synchroniser

This British product solves a surprising number of interfacing problems between machines designed to run on different time code systems. Peter Roythorne investigates.

What do you get when you cross brilliant musicianship, technological wizardry and one of the brightest line-ups in modern jazz? Answer: Steps Ahead. Interview by Liz Rose and Leslie Fradkin.

Dead or Alive's Tim Lever surrounds himself with new technology as the band prepare for world domination. Tim Goodyer gets the word on writing, recording and performing.

Budget digital sampling at the flick of a switch or two

Ralf Hutter: This year's model

Direct-to-disk recording for the Atari Falcon

Can this latest software package help the Falcon spread its wings?