Ever wondered what its like to use Digidesign Sound Tools? David Mellor takes the driving seat of the world's favourite hard disk recording/editing system.

Latest digital reverb from a company that's been making outboard effects gear longer than most. Paul White gives his first impressions.

Control Room

A last look at how to extend the low bass response of your studio monitors.

Tuned Percussion

Part 7: Tuned percussion. Dave investigates the enormous creative potential of sampled sounds within music, and offers his rendition of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'.

Murder your own ears for a change

Acoustics

In part two of this short series, David Etheridge looks at the role of effects and unusual chords in New Age music.

Making Yourself At Home In The Studio

All-Purpose Combo

Software for the Amiga

Dr T's programmers probably sieep as often as rust. Ian Waugh boots up the latest version of the successful Copyist scorewriting program - and finds that it's running on his Amiga.

Steinberg Pro16 MIDI Sequencer

Tony Hastings takes you through the recording of a song using the facilities of the Pro 16 MIDI Sequencer software from Steinberg Research.

Mike Craig avoids egg-box cliches and tells you how to do it properly.

A Series By Warren Cann.

Roland MKS-7 Super Quartet

A look at the role of the MKS-7

Making tracks with MIDI

Find out what compound intervals are. Oh all right then, they're a kind of dead useful chord.

Software for Apple II and Commodore 64

Sequencing software aimed at the Apple II and CBM64. Four- and eight-track versions receive expert scrutiny from David Ellis.

Production Tips & Techniques

Tricks With The SN76477

the Roland story

the science of synchronisation explained

It's only a month since we reviewed Kawai's R100 beatbox, yet already they've come up with a cheaper version. Rick Davies previews it.

MIDI sophistication in the humble patchbay: this modest-looking unit can store 100 routings of its 16x16 audio matrix and place the proceedings under MIDI control. Lorenz Rychner patches things up.

Spendor SP2/3

The big monitors with the burly chassis