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PAUL SIMPSON: Horizontal Paul Music Project
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This month, SOS meets a very unique music-maker.
Published November 1999
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Paul Ward
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Oberheim/Viscount MC3000 & MC2000
Controller Keyboards
Want to get serious about your music? A quality master controller keyboard is a good place to start. Paul Ward looks at two machines that offer a little more than most.
Published November 1999
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Steve Hackett
Recording Darktown
The release of a new album by ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett is usually a cause for celebration amongst his substantial body of fans. Paul Ward talks to him about the making of his latest, Darktown, and wonders whether it might find him an even wider audience....
Published August 1999
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Rick Wakeman
Recording Return To The Centre Of The Earth
After many years of planning, Rick Wakeman has succeeded in putting on a show that is a worthy successor to follow his theatrical '70s son et lumière extravaganzas — Return To The Centre Of The Earth. Paul Ward was present as production of the album of the story neared completion at CTS Studios in London.
Published July 1999
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Sounding Off: Is It All Getting Too Easy?
Paul Ward
Samples, re-sampling, looping, cutting and pasting — is it all getting too easy? Is the phrase 'dance music' becoming an oxymoron?
Published January 1999
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Korg DW8000 [Retrozone]
Keyboard Synthesizer
Paul Ward reintroduces an instrument now widely neglected on account of its 'digital' tag, and argues that it still has much to recommend it.
Published December 1998
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Roland JP8080
Analogue Modelling Synthesizer
Roland have finally released the rackmounting version of their much-vaunted JP8000. And what is this? A mic input? Paul Ward adopts his best Kraftwerk pose for a spot of modern nostalgia.
Published November 1998
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Kurzweil K2000VP
VAST Synthesizer Workstation
It's certainly borrowed (for the purposes of this review), and it's unquestionably blue, but is it old or new? Synth Guidance Counsellor and long‑time K2000 owner Paul Ward checks out Kurzweil's VP makeover of this legendary workstation.
Published September 1998
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Korg SG-Rack
Stage Piano Module
A quality acoustic piano sound in a 1U rack-mounting package? Paul Ward lifts the lid to see if there are any strings attached...
Published June 1998
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Roland A70
Expandable Controller Keyboard
While Roland's A70 in its basic form is a well-equipped but dumb controller, it can metamorphose into a Roland JV-style synth, a General MIDI synth, or a piano at the drop of an expansion board. Paul Ward has a controlling interest....
Published March 1998