SOUND ON SOUND
This month, Brian Heywood explores the delights of 'generative' music with Koan Pro, and checks out a new, easy-to-use soundcard.
The ability to make your own audio or data CDs with your PC can be enormously useful and is becoming cheaper all the time. But what exactly do you need to buy? Brian Heywood finds out.
Martin Russ brings you the latest news direct from an Apple R&D gathering, and takes a set of Allen keys to some expensive digital audio hardware.
Have you ever wished you could create strange, ethereal textures like the ones you hear on the best sample CDs? Paul White shows that it's not as difficult as it might seem.
Paul White reveals a few of the less well-trodden paths hidden within your mixer's routing system.
Ofir Gal reflects on the history of the Falcon with mixed feelings, and revisits the current C-lab MkX.
Paul White reveals how to create rhythmic gate effects, both using conventional hardware and MIDI Controller information.
Martin Russ's terminal terminal finally gives up the ghost and after thinking long and hard about its replacement, he makes a surprising decision...
Last month, Paul White looked at ways to tackle the noise and distortion that can spoil a mix. However, even a perfectly recorded mix can still sound terrible, and this calls for different tactics...
Ofir Gal brings news of a crop of software releases, from audio to graphics, which could enhance your Atari working environment...
Paul White goes into economy mode and tries to coax an extra degree of realism out of a budget studio reverb unit.
Brian Heywood ponders some PC problems and waxes lyrical over the forthcoming Soundscape upgrade.
Faced with the unfinished album sessions on analogue tape and a studio full of PCs and digital gear, Brian Heywood gets a chance to find out how flexible modern equipment really is.
Martin Russ surveys his dying Mac IIsi and ponders the purchase of a new model. Will he go for leading-edge Power or a last-generation bargain?
The C-Lab Falcon MkX has flown through its CE tests and finally landed in the UK. Ofir Gal checks the spec and assesses the new machine's chances of taking off.
When using effects, it's all too easy to add noise to your mix — and it's not always the fault of your effects unit. Paul White offers a few practical tips for achieving quieter mixes.
Conventional wisdom states that you can't 'fix it in the mix', but that doesn't mean you cant' try! Paul White discusses a few practical salvage techniques in the first part of this short series.
The last years of the '90s will see a lot of changes, with the fin de siecle spirit extending to music and computers. Martin Russ sees Macs shedding their inhibitions...
Paul White explores a few ways of taking nature's most common audio phenomenon and manipulating it to create special effects.
What would modern popular music be like without effects? Can you imagine rock without distortion? Ambient techno without delays? New age without reverb? Effects are second only in importance to the instrument needed to produce the music in the first place. Over the next nine pages, Derek Johnson and Debbie Poyser present their guide to what's on the effects market today...