SOUND ON SOUND
Several software houses are producing modestly priced programs which take advantage of the audio capabilities fo the Apple Power Macs. The result can be high-quality multitrack digital audio at a suprisingly low cost. Paul D. Lehrman finds he's got the Power...
The SOS team review 4 discs of synth sounds.
After a hiatus of several years, Yamaha return to sampling with the cheapest, most portable dedicated sampler yet. Derek Johnson coins a phrase...
Not satisfied with pitching their previous Technox synth fairly obviously at the dance music market, German manufacturers Quasimidi have now gone all out with the in-your-face Raven. But is it capable of techno-by-numbers? Paul Ward climbs aboard and flies into a rave...
Squelchy as a Minimoog and programmable as a PC, it's time to re-evaluate the Moog Source — so says Stephen Bennett.
Paul White checks out a signal processor with no knobs, no buttons and no display, designed to add valve warmth to 8-track recording.
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...
The SOS team review a soldering iron from Portasol.
Paul White plugs into the all-singing, all dancing digital box that can perform graphic, parametric and shelving EQ functions all at once — and even handle real-time room analysis and auto EQ'ing during its quieter moments...
The construction might be solid steel, but you don't need the strength of Samson to lift this little mixer, as Paul White discovers.
Andy Davies casts his eyes, ears and fingers over two new products from Oberheim: a controller keyboard which aims to replace your piano, and an organ module which threatens to do the same with your Hammond...
Alesis reverbs seem to get ever-more cheap and cheerful. But can low price and simplicity go hand in hand with studio-quality performance? Paul White finds out.
Macintosh have finally started licensing their operating system to other manufacturers. so when is a Mac not a Mac? Paul D. Lehrman looks at Power computing's range of Macintosh clones.
The long-awaited keyboard version of Kurzweil's flagship synth is finally unleashed. Paul Ward nearly falls out of his P-RAM with excitement...
When the going gets tough, should the tough get Sennheiser's drum kit microphone set?
Hot on the heels of Fostex's DMT8 Roland's new VS880 offers another take on the affordable digital multitracker concept. But as Paul White discovers, beneath the apparent similarities lie significant differences...
Paul White goes beyond the final frontier with Roland's latest 3D sound processor.
Paul White gets out and about with the Tascam DAP1 and discovers the joys of collecting sounds outside the studio.
Capital Mamba make bespoke equipment covers and soft cases, which means that no matter how obscure your keyboard instrument,...
Can a low-cost processor really clean up noisy recordings effectively? Paul White finds out.