Take Note Music

A music shop which only sells one product — and it isn't an instrument? Well, not quite, as Billy Punter Takes Note...

Darrin Williamson takes a look at the Phillip Rees range of hardware designed to help the flow of your MIDI data

Boss have finally managed to get a fully-fledged digital delay unit into the compact dimensions of a pedal. Paul White finds out if the reduction in size has had any side-effects.

The story behind the organ behind the Hammond sound

Pearl DRX-1 Electronic Drums

Pearl's late entry into the electronic drum kit stakes looks like a winner - eight kits can be programmed into its memory.

RETROSPECT: miles davis

what can a 63-year-old jazz trumpeter teach you about playing? rather a lot, actually

delay/chorus/flanger in one

Sound engineer David Mellor checks out the most boring Compact Disc in the world: Korg's first digital collection of sound samples!

A special report on one of Britain's premier avant garde music festivals, Musica Nova.

George Duke, Ross Middleton, Salvator Mulligan

MIDI Mutable Mixer

Most small mixers simply don't have enough inputs for even a modest home recording setup. One that certainly does is the new 20:2 Tascam MM1, complete with MIDI mute automation. Tony Hastings checks it out.

A Guide to Programming Music with Soul

How often have you heard synthesized, sequenced music described as 'cold' and 'mechanical? All of us want to compose a tune with good 'feel', but few people know exactly what makes for a good 'feel'. Yet it's not a mystery - as this timely article by Michael Stewart, designer of the Kahler Human Clock, reveals.

Following the success of the MIDIverb, Alesis have ventured into the realms of drum machines and sequencers. Bob O'Donnell lends an ear and discovers that economy doesn't necessarily mean compromise.

Brian Robinson

As the sequencer comes of age, the role of the drum machine is brought into question: why have a sequencer in your drum box if there's already one in your computer? Simon Trask investigates what may be the next step for the beat box.

micro-music for the BBC

cheaper digital drumming

Imagine buying a drum machine full of good factory preset rhythm programs - instead of the usual collection of cliches. Nigel Lord offers a solution to pre-programmed predictability.

alternative percussion sounds

Audio Connectors

Parallel Effects Processor

Just four effect

The Strongroom

Tony Reed gives a hand at Strongroom Studio — almost

Etcetera

Everything you didn't want to know and couldn't be bothered to ask