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This budget recording strip is certainly a jack of all trades, delivering a huge feature set for the price — but does it offer quality as well as quantity?

The revolutionary Variax modelling guitar is already a uniquely versatile instrument, but now Line 6 have added an extra dimension with the ability to customise almost every aspect of its operation.

We explore the innovative hardware and software that is helping disabled musicians take their work to the stage.

Choral libraries featuring only children’s choirs are unusual — yet the atmospheres and textures they provide have many uses.

The market for compact digital desks is hotting up. Has Allen & Heath's latest contribution got what it takes to fend off the competition?

If you want to get started with audio recording on your computer, but don't fancy opening up your PC to install an internal soundcard, the new USB Audio Canvas from Roland subsidiary Edirol may provide a welcome alternative. John Walden takes the UA100 for a test Drive.

When Europe's best known sequencer 'went audio' around two years ago, the resulting program was acclaimed as " unique and well thought out" — but times change, and cubase audio's latest version is up against some stiff competition from the likes of opcode, motu and emagic. mike collins checks out its chances...

The idea of a virtually silent, compact and portable PC recording workstation has obvious attractions, and it is possible to build such a system around a laptop PC. Martin Walker explains the options available and how to avoid some of the many potential pitfalls.

Martin Russ brings you the latest Apple news and views. First off the press is the low-down on Apple's new System 7.5...

This month, Martin Walker finds that it's good to talk, and uses a PC utility to burn his Akai-formatted hard drive sample collection onto Akai-format CD-R disks.

Manufacturers have sought to provide expressive computer-based simulations of real instruments by releasing ever larger and more detailed sample libraries. But whatever happened to the idea of modelling instruments using synthesis techniques? Arturia haven't forgotten...

Industrious Swedish company Propellerhead are well known for their virtual instruments, but now they've made an entire software studio. Derek Johnson & Debbie Poyser bolt a few virtual devices into the virtual rack...

Lexicons Ionix range trades Firewire connectivity for USB and moves from the rack to the desktop.

The long-awaited collaboration between singer Kenny Anderson and producer Jon Hopkins has yielded a hypnotic album where not everything is as it seems...

Why is phase important? What orchestral sample libraries are available for HALion? Where can I get Windows-based ASIO drivers for an Audiomedia III card? Are there really reverb and synth plug-ins supplied with Mac OS X? How can I isolate the vocals from a stereo mix?

A massive string ensembles library with individual player control is the latest development in VSL’s product line.

Although there is a lot of interest in the idea of portable, silent PC-based recording, only one company has taken up the challenge of supplying and supporting laptop systems that are guaranteed to work well for music recording. Martin Walker tries one out.

Video and audio technologies are converging in all sorts of ways: musicians can now consider creating demos on DVD, and developments in digital video may show the way for better ways of recording digital audio. Dave Shapton puts it all together.

This month's crop of Cubase tips covers the multitude of options available when exporting audio, plus ways of incorporating external MIDI instruments and effects into your mix.