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Cost Of MIDI Files
Atari Notes
Are MIDI Files too expensive? Vic Lennard investigates...
Published November 1994
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Windows MIDI Mapper
PC Notes
Brian Heywood finds out where you can go for a PC software demo, checks out the Windows MIDI Mapper, and spends some money via his PC...
Published November 1994
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Better Bass
A Guide To Recording, Mixing & Monitoring The Low End
Bass is the linchpin for so much of today's music, anchoring the other sounds and providing a foundation for the mix as a whole. But at the same time, it can seem maddeningly difficult to pin down and control. Help is at hand...
Published April 2007
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JOHN O'CONNOR: From 'Star Trekkin' To King Of The Hill
Interview | Composer
John O'Connor said farewell to the UK music business with the million-selling single 'Star Trekkin'. Paul Tingen tracks him down at his new home in America, where he is one of the principal composers for the cartoon King Of The Hill, as well as a successful recording artist in his own right.
Published December 1998
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Studio SOS: Mains Hum
Aniff Akinola
Acoustic problems and mains hum were making Aniff's studio difficult to use, so the SOS team stepped in to help.
Published February 2005
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Ben Salisbury
Composing For The Life Of Mammals
BBC Bristol's natural history series 'The Life Of Mammals' was a high-profile production, with stunning visuals that demanded an equally impressive soundtrack.
Published June 2003
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TOMMY D: Recording Catatonia's 'Dead From The Waist Down'
Interview | Producer
Catatonia's rise from indie obscurity to pop dominance seems unstoppable and, with the first single from their new album, they're even targetting Radio 2 listeners. Matt Bell talks to producer Tommy D about the track's transformation from Akai DPS12 demo to Top Ten hit.
Published May 1999
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Synth School: Part 12
The Way Ahead
Will physical modelling continue to be at the leading edge of synthesis, or are there other methods moving up on the inside tracks? Paul Wiffen winds up the Synth School series with a little crystal ball-gazing.
Published October 1998
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Yamaha SU700
Sampling Workstation
The SU700, Yamaha's entry into the 'groove sampler' stakes, is derived from their A3000 studio sampler and inherits some of its sibling's most impressive features — including adventurous effects and imaginative sample-manipulation facilities — while adding quite a few tricks of its own. Derek Johnson and Debbie Poyser go loopy.
Published April 1999
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Max Richter
Recording The Blue Notebooks
Max Richter combines chamber music with ambient recordings, spoken-word pieces and experimental electronica, creating a distinctive and beautiful blend of the traditional and the futuristic.
Published January 2005
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Ultimate Sound Bank Ultra Focus
Vintage Synth Library & Virtual Instrument
Rather than using modelling technology to emulate classic synths, Ultimate Sound Bank have created an eight-Gigabyte sample library and packaged it with an accessible virtual instrument front end.
Published January 2005
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Richard Chappell: Recording Peter Gabriel's Up
Catching Up
Engineer Richard Chappell has been at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios for over 15 years — and he's spent seven of them working on Gabriel's latest solo album.
Published May 2003
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Kurzweil K2000VP
VAST Synthesizer Workstation
It's certainly borrowed (for the purposes of this review), and it's unquestionably blue, but is it old or new? Synth Guidance Counsellor and long‑time K2000 owner Paul Ward checks out Kurzweil's VP makeover of this legendary workstation.
Published September 1998
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Sound Manager
Apple Notes
As it was, as it is, and as it may be. Martin Russ looks ahead to where musical Macs may be going.
Published December 1998
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Korg DW8000 [Retrozone]
Keyboard Synthesizer
Paul Ward reintroduces an instrument now widely neglected on account of its 'digital' tag, and argues that it still has much to recommend it.
Published December 1998
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Clifford White: 21st Century Music
Interview | Artist
It's a well worn record company adage that the music known as New Age doesn't sell, yet the little-known artist Clifford White has enjoyed such enormous success with this kind of music that he has set up his own booming record company. Paul White (no relation) finds out how.
Published June 1994
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Classic Tracks: Depeche Mode 'People Are People'
Producers: Depeche Mode, Daniel Miller, Gareth Jones • Engineer: Gareth Jones
Released in 1984, 'People Are People' perfectly combined Depeche Mode's love of pop music and experimentalism, and gave them their first US hit single.
Published February 2007
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Digital Interfacing
Connections & Clocking For Digital Audio
Getting the jitters about your digital clocking? Don't know your AES from your EBU? Then read on.
Published February 2007
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Amon Tobin
Out From Out Where
If you don't think the sampler can be a musical instrument, then you haven't been listening to the music of Amon Tobin!
Published April 2003
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GEMini CD-ROM
Atari Notes
Interested in having access to your very own PD library — on a single disk? Vic Lennard meets up with the Atari GEMini CD-ROM.
Published May 1994