A glimpse of the equipment you could well be buying in the forthcoming year

The first of an innovative new series on musical applications of your home micro

The Story of Pink Floyd's Live Sound

Tracing past to future ventures with one of the world's keyboard greats, including: The first publication of his title music for ‘Inferno’, video and LP reviews and keyboard music to play

Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

New software, updates, sounds, and samples

Frankfurt 86

The Frankfurt show seen from a diagonal position

A survey of trendsetters

Computer Musician in Rock

Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

Software, samples and gadgets for the modern musician

Yamaha CX5M Software

Three packages for the CX5M — eight-track real-time sequencer, DX21 voice editor and RX editor — are put through their paces by E&MM’s review team.

RCM Synthesizer

The DX7 captured musicians’ imaginations like no other synthesizer before or since. But the legacy of releasing endless variations on the DX theme has turned some musicians away from FM synthesis and into the waiting arms of a new generation of 'sample plus synth' keyboards. Now Yamaha are back with a vengeance, an even more powerful method of synthesis (Real-time Convolution and Modulation), and a spanking new flagship synth. But has the SY77 got what it takes to regain the hi-tech musician's vote? Martin Russ finds out.

The pick of 1983's equipment releases.

TX816 Rack, QX1 Digital Sequencer, KX88 Master Keyboard

At last, a detailed appraisal of Yamaha's state-of-the-art MIDI system. FM rack, digital keyboard recorder and master keyboard come under David Ellis' careful scrutiny.

Roland, Yamaha, OSCar, Syrinx, Teisco and Moog

Richard Elen visits the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop and hitches a ride through 21 years of past and present music and effects production from Quatermass to Blake's 7.

Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

New software, updates, sounds, and samples

Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

Disks, gadgets, samples and bits for the computing musician

Sequential's One Man Band

Paul Wiffen first encountered the Studio 440 sampling drum machine several months ago when he was called in to help Stevie Wonder suss out his! It has since become the mainstay of his own programming armoury. Here he tells why...

Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

New software, updates, sounds and samples

Music Transcription Program

Writing out full scores and individual parts for fellow musicians used to be a slavish occupation for a skilled select few. Now, with the benefit of low cost computers and music transcription programs like this one from DR.T, almost anyone can produce professional results that don't cost the earth. Amanda Stuart explores.

In case the current wave of BMF-madness has overtaken you completely, MT dropped in on the annual Chicago show to see how the Americans do it. Report: Dan Goldstein, Rick Davies, Paul White and Bob O'Donnell.

Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

New software, updates, sounds, and samples