Recording and mixing a musical composition is often underestimated as a task, with the emphasis placed on the musicians rather than the re...

“Am I really doing this?” , I asked myself, as I swiftly unplugged and gathered up jack leads, then set about packing away the tower compu...

If you recorded on a PC in the 1990s and used a Sound Blaster sound card, you’ll probably remember very well the joy of SoundFonts . Whilst ...

As was evident in my piece on the R8 and MTC1 combo , early on Fostex spotted the huge significance of MIDI not just in sequencing and inst...

Lately I’ve been digging out a lot of my pre-digital recordings (pre-digital audio, that is, although some are even pre-MIDI!), and it’s pro...

The concept of keeping pretty much all of a home recording within the casing of a computer has now been with us for so long that it can be ...

For just over a decade between the mid ‘eighties and the mid ‘nineties, MIDI was the be-all-and-end-all of so many amateur musicians’ cr...

[UPDATE: The Skanksta has now been replaced by a far superior freeware alternative. The current update on this theme is the vastly superio...