Turtle Beach QuadStudio

Digital four-track for PC

ALESIS DATADISK MIDI Data Recorder

The latest MIDI data recorder to appear is the Alesis Datafiler SysEx recorder, which allows you to record system exclusive info direct to disk. Filing with Vic Lennard.

Ben Duncan presents philosophies on the effects of music.

Studio Ergonomics

Part three deals with Studio Ergonomics; namely, where best to position equipment in your studio.

If you're short of a new source of samples you could do worse than to turn to the glass (not the bottle). Tom McLaughlin explains how a wine glass can provide a wide variety of unusual tone colours.

The newest of the new percussive sounds emerge as our Eddie chats to cosmic Frank Perry, who applies lateral thinking to work out what to turn into an instrument next.

Richard Walmsley goes to Basingstoke to find two Fostex fans

All you ever wanted to know about stereo mic techniques, explained in plain English.

Part five funks you up

Sampling

Sampling is the subject this time: we turn the technical phrases into real language.

NOMIS

Chris Maillard co-stars in The NOMIS Complex. In all major West End cinemas now

Queries answered...

Our first lady of song sorts out your traumas

Better than cheap frills, cheap reverb with no frills

Mistaken Identity

The critic under criticism.

David Ellis and the sad tale of an Italian computer music add-on that bears more than a passing resemblance to established designs from the States.

Giddy young thing Paul Bacon talks to Vertigo about their hopes of scaling the heights of success, the demo-tape route

Software Surplus

The most recent polysynth from the Roland stable replaces the long-serving Juno 6 and 60, and adds MIDI compatibility, more program memories, and polyphonic portamento. Geoff Twigg reports.

A quick gaze at the crystal ball reveals a new MIDI mixer from Simmons, a digital reverb/effects processor from AKG, a MIDI-CV module from Tantek, and plenty more...