A peripatetic instrumental music teacher gives his personal insight into some of the problems encountered when integrating technology into traditional music teaching.

Talking about improvisation and The Moody Blues

Founder of Ars Electronica, this Austrian composer talks about his work on 'Erdenklang' and his own approach to the Fairlight CMI

MIDI Time Code Controller

With sequencing and tape recording becoming equally important to many musicians, any means of integrating the two is likely to be a welcome development. Vic Lennard looks at a unit that allows Fostex' R8 to be operated from within Steinberg's Cubase.

Editor throws shark bait — concrete boots to follow?

The first part of a new series on recording and signal processing. This month we look at a few simple ways of making a vocal part sound more interesting.

Clock Recording Studios

Chris Maillard Clocks on to report on a new recordenhaus

Ever since it became possible to record music, it's been possible to lose "valuable" recordings. Tim Goodyer raises the question of responsibility.

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An exclusive look at a Compact Disc-based sound library for everyone with a sound sampler

Digital Compact Cassette Recorder

Philips hope that their new cassette-based DCC format will succeed where DAT failed — becoming the new consumer digital recording medium. Derek Johnson evaluates the world's first first DCC recorder.

One of America’s leading session players takes a breather between TOA equipment demonstrations, and takes Tim Goodyer into his confidence over MIDI and a few of the behind-the-scenes goings-on in its administration.

Ron Berry

Ben Duncan brings us up to date with Adam's career.

at the Strand Palace Hotel, 22nd-23rd November

The Turnkey Hands On show is upon us again, the show for home recordists. We anticipate its coming delights.

The story of one man and his synthesizer

The Numan face of synthesis

Vancouver Canada

A took at one of Canada's foremost educational studios