MIDI Performance Effect

The arpeggiator is still regarded by many as "the poor man's sequencer", but Oberheim may be about to change that with a small grey box called Cyclone. Simon Trask blows hot and cold.

From the profound to the downright silly, we wind up a year's chit-chat

What, a revolution in the US? Tony Mills plays foreign correspondent

Arpeggiate the BBC

Cool notes, hot gossip and tepid talk

Last years' gear making next year's sounds - courtesy of some creative mixing.

Mark Jenkins' system

Peter Gabriel, The Ramones, Philip Glass, That Petrol Emotion, and old-time Velvet Underground.

Mark J. Prendergast explores the recording process that surrounded Peter Gabriel's new album 'Passion' and takes a peep inside Gabriel's Real World studio complex.

Bill Nelson compiles a desert island discography.