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I have recently bought an Akai S5000 sampler and I am attempting to create samples of some synths I have...
It's true; the Minimoog's back! Manufactured in Cardiff by a new company, they're designed to resemble the original as closely as possible. Long-standing Mini owner Steve Howell attended the UK launch.
On its release in the late '80s, the SQ80 had to slug it out with Roland's D50 and Korg's M1, and didn't come out on top, at least as for sales were concerned. Steve Howell takes a look at an early and underrated workstation that still has a lot to offer.
Beethoven's amanuensis it might not be, but for dancey doodlings, you won't find a better scratchpad than the Roland MSQ700 'multitrack digital keyboard recorder'. Steve Howell reassesses the sequencer that dared not speak its name...
Kenton Electronics' new one-channel MIDI-CV converter is slightly more expensive than others of its kind — but there's a reason!
Steve Howell investigates a single-channel MIDI-CV converter.
24 tracks? Pah! How about a whopping 24 notes? Steve Howell concludes his series on the modular system of yore by taking a look at the somewhat capacitorially-challenged analogue sequencer...
Having surfaced from the depths of the previous instalment, Steve Howell takes a deep breath and plunges back into his explaination of some of the modulation possibilities afforded by modular analogue synths...
The modular, analogue synthesizer, owned by few and coveted by many, is a extraordinarily flexible beast. Many of the effects made possible by the lumbering monsters, however, can also be emulated using far more modest instruments, as Steve Howell explains.