U2's guitarist interrupts recording of their new album for an exclusive Making Music interview.

Richard Fowler passes on a few hints and tips tor Alesis HR16 owners

Shareware & Public Domain software

Mountains of useful programs can be yours for nothing! Well, it's a public service, innit? declares Ian Waugh.

KAT dk10 Percussion Controller

Offering 240 FM sounds, with up to 8-voice polyphony, and control via MIDI mono mode, the FB-01 takes the crown as the cheapest expander on the market today. Martin Russ casts his vote.

The second of a series of new style kit projects that enable musicians to build and customise effects units with the minimum of technical difficulty

Rock-steady Rozzer on drums meets shufflin' Max Kay

Geoff Twigg takes a look at this MIDI-standard synth-without-a-keyboard.

MIDI-To-Tape Synchronisation

MIDI-to-tape sync: why you need it, what it does and how you use it.

(Sometimes)

Just as MIDI has made it as easier to produce great music, so it has facilitated the production of worthless garbage. Paul D. Lehrman explains the problem and how to avoid it.

Studio Test

The MIDIverb set new standards for low-price, high quality digital reverb. Can the MIDIfex do the same for even more digital effects? Curtis Schwartz reports.

Martin Russ orchestrates his way through two fascinating ST programs from French software house, Digigram.

By ignoring the charts and treating dance music as a live phenomenon, Adamski has won himself a huge following and a chart placing. Simon Trask talks about the live applications of studio music.

Clive Grace assesses the best MIDI interfaces available for the PC, Amiga and Macintosh

Digital Metronome

Heard the one about the silent metronome? Simon Trask investigates a MIDI-driven metronome that uses light instead of sound to keep you to the beat.

In depth.

What you may have 'missed' at the Los Angeles AES and the London Hands On Shows.

Los Angeles and London were the recent locations for two very different audio get-togethers. Paul Gilby reports on the proceedings and products shown at both the AES and Hands-On shows.

Face to face with Hue - or is it Cry?

Keyboard Training

more keyboard left-hands

Studio Test

Richard Walmsley on another contender for the 'small is beautiful' stakes

Tony Horkins meets the crue-d crowd, and gets a lesson in manners

The Integrated Graphic EditoR

You don’t have to be a KCS owner to benefit from Tiger. If your Atari sequencer lacks graphical editing facilities but implements MIDI files, then real-time editing of sequence data is still possible. Chas Stoddard explains all.

The legendary German synthesist speaks out about technology and technique in this exclusive interview - his first in four years!