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Is MIDI about to be superceded? Martin Russ investigates proposals for a new standard for interfacing and controlling electronic musical instruments.

When Paul Johnson decided he'd like to teach a Music Technology course at the college where he works, there was one small problem: he had to build the studio himself during the summer holidays, on a shoestring budget with help from just two students. Impossible? Let's find out...

Digital delay tends to be taken very much for granted, but the majority of today's studio effects would be impossible without it. Paul White describes how to set up your own DDL effects from scratch.

Paul Overaa advises on how to improve your sequencer's notation facilities, gives some more tracker tips, and rounds up some current Amiga news...

Timing delays, stolen notes, lack of sampler memory... having trouble playing back your sample files over MIDI? But all these problems can be things of the past. All it needs is a little care and planning — as Wilf Smarties explains.

You might think that the layout of your studio is determined purely by where your monitors go and where you sit, but as Paul White explains, there are few areas where you have to exercise a bit of care. • Part 1 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5

After having discovered what makes an American music publisher sit up and take notice of a demo, David Bibbey turns his attention to the likes and dislikes of the home-grown variety — Dominic Walker of BMG.

Are the 16-bit capabilities of your AV Macintosh languishing unused for want of a decent (and Cheap) 16-bit sample editor? SoundEdit 16 could be your salvation. Mike Collins checks it out...

At a time when a modular synth could cost as much as an average house, Roland's System 100M was an affordable dream. Chris Carter gets patched in...