From Curved Air to Sky, and beyond with the Synclavier II

Three Guitarists

Sound engineer with Sky chats about his work and gives advice about recording.

We get the artists' views

Classical music on computer sequencers has been on the cards (disks?) for years now it's happened, but does it work? Ian Waugh boots up Bach, Handel, Mozart...

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Mozart Meets C-Lab Notator

Proving that hi-tech tools are not the sole preserve of pop musicians, Richard Gonski, Music Director of the Electric Symphony Orchestra, tells how he and Francis Monkman took Mozart's Piano Concerto In C Minor, K.491, and sequenced the whole work using C-Lab's Notator.

This month, Elka Eminent to Everitt Orgatron.

This month: Hohner

Technics PX1 Digital Piano

The PX1 heralds a new generation of electronic pianos that aims to provide acoustic sound quality in a more versatile, up-to-date format. Julian Colbeck meets the latest Japanese Joanna.