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Interviews

The New Age Music Conundrum

Feature | Sound On Sound, Jan 1987

What is 'New Age' music? Who plays it, and why is it apparently so popular? Our resident musicologist Mark Prendergast traces its development back to the work of 'new music' composers Arnold Schoenberg and Erik Satie.

The A-Z of Analogue - Part 10

Feature Series | Topic: Vintage Instruments | Music Technology, May 1994

This month: Hohner

Sequential's Prophet VS...

Review | Sound On Sound, Jul 1986
The new-wave sound

...'The first genuinely NEW keyboard since the DX7' proclaims our review. Mixing four different waveforms together in a technique christened 'vector synthesis', Sequential's new baby can create some stunningly different synth sounds. Could it be what the market's looking for? Mark Jenkins reports.

MIDI and the Micro

Feature | Topic: Buyer's Guide, Computing, MIDI | Electronics & Music Maker, Jun 1984

A complete guide to all the hardware interfaces for home micros available so far, plus the software that goes with them.

The Shape Of Things To Come

News | Sound On Sound, Sep 1986

Another selection of brand new products about to be launched in this country.

Oberheim Poly

Review | Sound International, May 1978

Dave Crombie checks out the Oberheim 4-voice polyphonic synth.

Sound Designer 2000 Software

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, May 1986

Digidesign's sound-editing software for the Emulator II has now been adapted for the Prophet 2000: Brian Devereux gives it the thumbs-up.

RMI Keyboard Computer KCII

Review | Sound International, Jun 1978

Dave Crombie tinkles the RMI Keyboard Computer — not so much a synth, more a souped-up organ.

Emulator SP12 Updates

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, May 1986

Paul Wiffen peers inside the latest SP12 to find a host of clever modifications: they help keep the E-mu machine at the top of the beat-box tree.

Sequential Circuits Prophet 5

Review | Sound International, Jul 1978

Dave Crombie's review of the Prophet 5 synth leaves us speechless.

Digidesign Burner Software

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Oct 1986

Fancy putting that percussion sound you sampled with your keyboard into your digital drum machine? Rick Davies discovers that all things are possible in California.

Electric Pianos

Feature | Sound International, Aug 1978

A subjective look (what else?) at some of the electric and electronic pianos currently on the market, by Dave Crombie.

Fair Enough

Editorial | Electronics & Music Maker, Sep 1986

What a difference a show makes - or further thoughts on the British Music Fair '86.

Yamaha GX-1/Korg Micro-Preset

Review | Sound International, Sep 1978

All creatures great and small: Dave Crombie glides from the huge Yamaha GX-1 to the minute Korg Micro Preset.

The Show Goes On

Show Report | Electronics & Music Maker, Sep 1986
BMF Report '86

The Editor struggles through tech-laden stands, lively demos, liquid lunches and hordes of musicians to bring news of Britain's best-ever music show. If you missed it, you missed out.

The Moog Story

Review | Topic: Vintage Instruments | Sound International, Oct 1978
Keyboards

SI in association with Dave Crombie Productions Inc present The Moog Story, starring Robert A Moog...

Scratch Samples

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Sep 1986
Digidesign SoftSynth

E&MM US Editor Rick Davies takes a trip to Palo Alto, California, to see an Apple Mac software package that uses additive synthesis to turn samplers into synthesisers.

Skywave

Review | Sound International, Nov 1978
Keyboards

Dave Crombie tinkles the gleaming white keys of the J. Lord machine. Luxury you can afford? Find out on page 65.

360 Systems MIDI Patcher

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Jul 1986

A MIDI routing device from keyboard manufacturers 360 Systems. Our American correspondent Rick Davies puts it through its paces.

Wasp Synth

Review | Sound International, Dec 1978
Keyboards

Soundintpix presents 'Swarm (Isn't it)', starring Dave Crombie as Henry Fonda and a yellow and black object that goes Buzz and strikes terror into the hearts of more expensive synthesiser manufacturers.

A Selective Survey of Lead Line Synthesizers

Feature | Topic: Vintage Instruments | Electronic Soundmaker, Sep 1983

Roland, Yamaha, OSCar, Syrinx, Teisco and Moog

360 Systems MIDI Bass

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Apr 1986

At last, someone has come up with a sample-playing device that specialises in reproducing bass voices - from a double bass to a Moog synth. Brian Devereux reports.

Sampling Synths

Feature | Topic: Sampling | Electronic Soundmaker, Oct 1983

We get the artists' views

Hammond XB5

Review | Sound On Sound, Mar 1993
Double-Manual Organ

Roland 106 vs Yamaha DX9

Review | Electronic Soundmaker, May 1984

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