SOUND ON SOUND
Last month, Martin Russ got caught up in Apple takeover fever. This month, he explains how the situation has completely changed...
Whatever the reality of Apple's finances, the money men have decided the company is ripe for the picking. But will upsetting the Apple cart produce a windfall for the user? Martin Russ keeps his ear to the ground... Sun Microsystems.
The new version of Opcode's flagship sequencer/ hard disk recording package almost extinguishes the differences between audio and MIDI recordings, allowing unprecedented control over your compositions. A hitherto MIDI-only Martin Russ broadens his horizons...
Martin Russ considers some ways of realising sound synthesis on your Mac using system or third-party software, and concludes his look at the PCI buss.
Martin Russ continues his look at computer busses and reports back from the recent Apple Expo show.
Technics' first foray into the pro synth market, the WSA1, catapults them to the front of the pack. Martin Russ discovers whether acoustic modelling synthesis really can create gold sounds from base metal.
Martin Russ follows up last month's article by Nick Rothwell on using MIDI with modern dance by asking: how exactly does he do that?
Martin Russ takes a look at the changing face of technology during the first decade of SOS.
Regular SOS contributor Martin Russ returns to the back page with some rabid thoughts on software updates.
Martin Russ offers an antidote to the hype of Windows '95 and explains why the future of computing lies with the PCI buss...