Computer / Software

With such a huge market to aim at, no software house can ignore the PC musician. Paul Nagle checks out Emagic's latest upgrade for Windows workers.

Most new software arrives in a blaze of publicity, but Synclavier's incredibly useful Mac utility dropped unannounced onto the SOS desk. Paul White checks it out.

Brian Heywood explains what a busy month his PCs have had, and takes another look at the PC's potential for multimedia.

Vic Lennard considers the current plight of the humble MIDI File Library.

There has been plenty happening on the Amiga scene this month — not least final confirmation of Commodore's buyout. Paul Overaa explains...

After 'QuickTime and OMS with everything' last month, Martin Russ seeks an alternative view of MIDI on the Mac.

Are you about to buy an expensive stand-alone sampler? Think again. If you have a PC, you already own much of the technology required for sampling. Panicos Georghiades puts the case for 'soundcard and PC'-based sampling systems, and compares four popular soundcards.

Something a little different this month, as Paul Overaa provides details of how the Amiga's MIDI facilities can be used from BASIC...

Martin Russ rounds up the latest Apple hardware and software news, kicking off with tidings of QuickTime with everything...

Brian Heywood reports back from the 1995 MEMS show, and looks at an interesting new way of getting video onto your PC...

Following the resurrection of the Falcon under C-Lab (as reported in last month's Atari Notes), GE-Soft of Germany has just launched the Eagle, a TT-compatible Atari clone. Vic Lennard takes a look...

Paul Farrer rotates his baseball cap through 180 degrees, sharpens his digital knife, and gets sample-slicing with Steinberg's ReCycle.

In the concluding part of this series, Simon Millward explains how to create MIDI effects like auto-pan, tremolo and gating using Logical Edit.

There have been plenty of goings-on in the Amiga world during the last four weeks. Paul Overaa spills the beans... Dr T's M package & OctaMED Pro v.6

With Atari no longer manufacturing computers, the mantle for further development has been picked up by C-Lab. Enter the Falcon Mk II...

Martin Russ brings you the latest Apple news. This month: new software upgrades, and how to surf the net from your mobile phone...Max 3.0 7 and Skinnyshort.

Brian Heywood brings you the latest PC News, and looks back on three years of PC Notes.

Mike Collins gets to grips with GRM Tools and compares it to the latest incarnation of HyperPrism.

A synth editor program for your computer can expand your synthesis horizons and encourage you to discard those presets in favour of original creations. But what if you have more than one synth — surely it's going to cost a fortune buy an editor for each? Not necessarily, as Paul Nagle finds out.

Paul White is given an exclusive preview of a new technology that will revolutionise music making — and this time, it really will!

After a couple of weeks spent trying to decipher the inner mysteries of QuickTime 2.0, Martin Russ devotes this month's Apple Notes to revealing the results...