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Paul White road-tests the KRK V6 monitors to see whether quality has been sacrificed to meet an attractive price point.

Overall Comments: The Advanced Orchestra set contains the most performance variations of any of the...

Comments: A collection of about 50 short orchestral 'mood' pieces, ranging from a few to 30 seconds in length...

Rating: ****** 6/6 Stars

Disc 1: Loud Violins

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Millennia Music and Media Systems manufacture high-end signal processors with the usual feature of dual circuit paths — solid-state FET and valve topologies running separately, side by side. Hugh Robjohns checks out the company's opto-compressor.

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Rating: **** 4/6 Stars

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Colin Owen rediscovers the joys of Atari-tight timing on his blue G3 Mac with Emagic's AMT8 interface, featuring their new Active MIDI Transmission.

Nick Magnus gets his hands on an instrument which is claimed to provide the best reproduction yet of the feel — and sound — of an acoustic piano.

Evolution is happening everywhere, and nowhere more so than MOTU's flagship recording software for the Mac. Nicholas Rowland tracks down the latest version.

Overall Comments: Of all the Japanese companies, Roland seem to have invested the most energy in building a...

Paul White puts away his expensive toys to try out a couple of low-cost studio effects from Zoom, but does he still have fun?

For the launch of their new range of 24-bit/96kHz-capable PCI recording systems, established gadget manufacturers Midiman are going under the name M Audio. Martin Walker takes a look at the flagship product in their new line.

Rating: **** 4/6 Stars

TUTTI

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Comments: Same kind of idea as Scoring Tools above, but darker in tone. Where Tools is...

British company Digisound's affordable modular synth may not have the cachet of a Moog or an ARP, but — as Paul Nagle explains — they were innovative, well designed, and sounded great... Additional material by Dave Robinson.

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Rating: **** 4/6 Stars

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Yamaha's DB50XG daughterboard demonstrated to the world that a PC soundcard could offer high-spec synthesis capabilities. Its latest descendents offer a digitally emulated Prophet V synth and a high-quality Piano. Martin Walker tries them out.