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Today, back catalogue sales account for much of the revenue generated by record companies. Here, producer Martyn Ware considers what will happen when there is no longer any back catalogue left to exploit...
Paul White discusses the future of digital effects processing with Lexicon's Steve De Furia.
Having wondered last month about the reliability of your gear, David Mellor discusses the even less predictable nature of music business people...
Stephen Bennett chucks his trusty 8-track tape setup in favour of one of the new hard disk multitrack systems — but not before doing some thorough research. Here he reveals the factors that influenced his decision...
Are you about to buy an expensive stand-alone sampler? Think again. If you have a PC, you already own much of the technology required for sampling. Panicos Georghiades puts the case for 'soundcard and PC'-based sampling systems, and compares four popular soundcards.
Every studio needs at least one mic, but which type and which model is best? Paul White provides some guidance.
Cubase's MIDI Mixer Module allows you to create Mixer Maps to help you edit and control your MIDI insruments. In part one of this two-part series, Simon Millward takes you through the construction of a Mixer Map for Yamaha's popular SY85.
Something a little different this month, as Paul Overaa provides details of how the Amiga's MIDI facilities can be used from BASIC...
Paul White checks out what must be one of the smallest 8-buss recording consoles around, which sports MIDI muting and MIDI machine control and still maintains a very afordable price tag.
Paul White looks at the multitrack recording console and its role in your multitrack recording system.
Martin Russ rounds up the latest Apple hardware and software news, kicking off with tidings of QuickTime with everything...
Brian Heywood reports back from the 1995 MEMS show, and looks at an interesting new way of getting video onto your PC...
Following the resurrection of the Falcon under C-Lab (as reported in last month's Atari Notes), GE-Soft of Germany has just launched the Eagle, a TT-compatible Atari clone. Vic Lennard takes a look...
The mid-priced XR7 is at the top of the new Fostex cassette multitracker range. Shirley Gray checks it out.
JL Cooper's new remote controller could become the nerve centre of your studio, driving all your MMC-compatible studio equipment from its front panel. Control freak John Harris checks it out.
Paul Ward gets bullish about one of Robert Moog's lesser-known creations - the Taurus bass foot pedals, famed for their thunderous sound and association with some of the 1970s prog rock scene's greatest stars.
Despite the preponderance of digital technology in the modern recording world, many independent manufacturers continue to produce valve-based processors for the subjective warmth they add to recordings. Paul White looks at one of the latest, Ridge Farm's new valve DI box.
PC sound cards often provide surprisingly sophisticated facilities, only to fall down on the quality of their synth sounds. Panicos Georghiades takes a look at a new contender that ups the ante with a little help from Korg...
Microtech's original UM70 set the affordable capacitor mic ball rolling, but now there's a transformerless version featuring a new housing. Paul White took it for a test drive.