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Nothing beats the feel of a superb live performance captured on tape... but exactly how do you go about it? SOS's Demo Doctor and live recording veteran John Harris considers what you need to get that classic gig onto multitrack tape.
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.
Brian Heywood brings you the latest PC news, and offers a handy tip to net surfers who may be getting lost...
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
Need to upgrade your ST's memory? Vic Lennard looks to RAM the point home...
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.
Once upon a time an Emulator was all eights: 8-bit, 8-voice, 8-outs, but that was a decade ago. Ten years on and the latest Emulator has more of the 128 about it: 128 voices, up to 128Mb of RAM. Paul Wiffen finds out if everything else about the EIV is 16 times as good.
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...
Just the thing to send Paul White for Christmas: an Omni Present!
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...
The roles of the various signal processors and effects used in audio production are pretty well understood by most musicians, but it's not always obvious where they should be patched into the signal chain to give the best results.
Paul Ward looks back through time to 1980, and considers the hidden strengths of one of Roland's more overlooked monosynths: the SH09.
Paul White brings back from NAMM exclusive news from Roland's new secret weapon in the physical modelling wars.
Soundcraft have added nearfield monitors to their product range in a continued bid for world domination. Paul White subjects them to the rigours of studio life.
Shirley Gray checks out the upgraded version of Tascam's popular 8-track Portastudio.
Quad is a 4-track 'Portastudio'-style digital recording system for the PC. Could it replace your cassette-based multitrack? Panicos Georghiades and Gabriel Jacobs find out...
Paul White looks at a RAM program card from Metrasound for use in a Yamaha SY35.
Derek Johnson looks at a book from John Borwick exploring Sound Recording Practice.
Yamaha's Virtual Acoustic technology has begun the march toward affordability with the release of the VL7, at a little more than half the cost of the flagship VL1. Is this a DX7 for the '90s? David Crombie finds out.
In the '70s there was Eno's ambient music. in the late '80s, there came the Techno sound of Detroit. Over the past two years, there has been talk of 'Ambient Techno'. But what is it? Mark J. Prendergast explains, and speaks to four influential creators of Ambient Techno about how they produce their music.