A colourful round-up of what's new in the hi-tech recording arena.

Digital Mixing Processor

A fully automated, digital mixer with built-in multi-effects and full MIDI control for under £3,000? Hard to believe. David Mellor visits the Yamaha research and development centre in London to try out this amazing innovation in the flesh and discovers that the DMP7 is no fantasy!

A long-time member of the MIDI establishment, Jeff Rona is a musician who gets more mileage out of computers than most. Scott Wilkinson listens in on Mac, PAN, digital editing and Jon Hassell's latest LP.

Following on from last month's pictorial exclusive, this account of Europe's largest hi-tech music exhibition fills in the details. Tim Goodyer files the report.

A New Landmark!

The first of a special two-part feature highlighting the dawn of a new era in audio recording.

Studio Designer

Top studio designer talks to Janet Angus.

Another digital reverb from Alesis, a waveform digitizing pad for the Roland S50 sampler, Passport's multitrack software for the Atari ST, exclusive news of the world's first ever 8-track recorder to use standard cassettes, and more...

Although Michael Nyman's name and music became known through Peter Greenaway's extraordinary films, Prospero's Books may see not just the peak but also the end of their creative partnership. But Nyman has other strings to his bow, as Mark J. Prendergast discovers.

a history of progressive rock - is there a new day dawning for the dinosaurs?

The Mix's terrestrial bulletin board

This French-born synthesist describes his experiences with the Synclavier and other digital instruments

Sony PCM F1

Introducing the Sony PCM F1 recorder.

With the development of their Series 4000 range of studio mics, Bruel & Kjaer have earned a reputation as one of the top manufacturers of versatile, high performance microphones. In this article Ralph Dunlop, B&K's UK Sales Manager, makes a case for the use of quality microphones and outlines a useful guide for determining microphone choice and application.

Our series continues with the voice, whether synthetic, sampled or the real thing.

Is This The New Folk Music?

A Bad Job

This month we take a look at salvage techniques. What to do when you have to re-mix someone else's less than ideal master tape.

Britain's newest amp swallows pages. Read why

By combining plenty of different sounds with the built-in percussion voices and digital reverb, Roland's MT32 multitimbral expander makes the ideal add-on for any sequencer. But it really takes a software editing program to get the very best out of it. Brian Howarth shows you how.

Phil Ward Xplores the Real World of CD-ROM and multimedia

A professional quality mixer for live or studio use at an astounding price. Suitable for 8-track, 4-track and stereo recording.

For Recording Engineering

Educated sound engineer David Mellor assesses the value of training for a career in recording.

Amek Big By Langley Mixing Console

With Talking Recall and oodles of features, this top-end mixing desk should satisfy many private studio's needs.

The price guide to beat all price guides continues with a rundown of available sequencers, software packages and computer music systems.