SOUND ON SOUND
Paul Austin spotlights the latest in 16-bit Amiga recording as WaveTools and the latest incarnation of Clarity take the stage.
Though sound synthesis has a relatively short history, its progress has been rapid, with the result that the basic concepts of synthesis are now becoming lost in the mists of time — yet to effectively programme current synths, it really helps to know them.
Vic Lennard considers the place of Atari's Falcon 030 in the world of digital audio.
Bob Thomas offers a quick tip to achieve vocal separation.
Want to make music with a PC but don't know which one to choose? Brian Heywood provides advice to guide you through the maze of jargon in your quest to set up your ideal PC-based music system.
Martin Russ looks at one aspect of computing that may provide a new outlet for your Atari music-making: CD-ROM.
Paul White examines 3 different tips & tricks to help with vocals, guitars, and MIDI production.
Make your digital synth put on an analogue hat. Does the current passion for analogue mean you have to put your digital synth back in its box and track down an analogue instrument? Not if Nick Magnus has anything to do with it!
Craig Anderton's QY10 goes everywhere with him — and he's developed loads of useful short-cuts to help QY10 owners make even better use of this brilliant musical notepad.
Brian Heywood looks back over the past year of PC music activity.
Gordon Reid turns his attention to multi-band digital noise removal systems.
Even in the simplest MIDI system, there is often a need to switch between one MIDI source and another. For example, when...
Though now discontinued, the K1 and its modular cousins enjoy continuing popularity on the second hand market. Setting this synth up for multitimbral sequencer use is straightforward — when you know how.
Paul White examines 3 different tips & tricks to help with vocals, guitars, and MIDI production.
Paul White offers a few tips to help you avoid pitfalls when buying second-hand equipment.
Kendall Wrightson signs off as your Mac correspondent with a look at what's in store for '94.
Paul Austin looks at a sound and vision system which brings true multimedia closer than ever before: Toccata.
There's more to vocoders than 'Mister Blue Sky' — and with the vocoders available on some current multi-effects processors, creative vocoding is now available to almost anyone.
In this final instalment, we present a practical overview of the 'room‑within‑a‑room' principle which is used in the construction of virtually all major studios.
Having dealt with walls and floors, we move on to the floors and ceilings of the studio, with a view to reducing sound leakage even further.