Food fans flip out! Forget recording — what do Pop stars eat while they're working? Lovable liquid-luncher and hardened drinker Trynka tucks in. Bon appetit!

lockable wobble

Mainframe's road to fame

The Musical Micro

More packages picked apart by Tony Mills

plugged in and turned on

Allen & Heath GL4000 Live Console

Four-track Cassette Recorder

A new mid-price four-track machine from the people Tascam love to hate. Paul White finds it to be elegant, well designed, and startlingly good value.

the birth of loud

The Logical Choice?

Macintosh Scorewriting Software

One of the leaders of the Mac Pack is Mark Of The Unicorn's Professional Composer. Ian Waugh reports on the latest version of one of the leading Macintosh scorewriters.

A rare interview with the noted composer and lecturer in the month of his 50th birthday.

Breaking The Silence

Brian Eno, is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in electronic music, yet his creative energies have recently been directed into other people's music. Now, with the release of one solo and one collaborative album approaching, he gives a rare interview to Mark Prendergast.

Hard Disk Recording System

The £5000 add-on for your PC

The Dynamic Beatbox

You just can't argue with a drum machine offering 233 16-bit sounds, two stereo outputs, 16-voice polyphony and a mammoth memory all for £299 — unless perhaps you're a busker, as Kendall Wrightson discovers.

Fostex 160 Multitracker

What can I say... it's black, it lights up... they've done it again — another winner.

Dod R910/Cutec FX500

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In the second part of our series on getting the most from the mix, Paul White offers some advice on using outboard signal processors to their best, er, effect.

John Renwick gets synchronised with this nifty little device from Radius

With features like stereo, mono and separate outputs for external processing, real-time and step-time programming, MIDI compatibility, and interchangeable drum sounds, the budget-priced MD8 should theoretically cost a lot more than it does. Tony Wride sees if it lives up to expectations.

Craig Anderton explains how you can add some 'humanity' to your drum machine patterns.

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

Co-founder of the techno movement, Model 500's Juan Atkins discusses yesterday's technology and influences, and tomorrow's music. Technospeak: Simon Trask.