We start a new series on synthesis for the complete beginner. Steve Howell is the man at the helm.

Interested in hi-tech higher education? Chris Kempster reports on the MIDI studios and recording courses available to students at Salford College Of Technology.

A Guide to Recording, Electronic Music and Popular Music Courses in Britain

The first ever published guide to all Recording, Electronic Music and Music Courses available in Britain today.

A new software package for the Commodore 64 that puts step-time sequencing, recording and scorewriting in an elegant perspex box. Ian Waugh finds it transparently appealing.

Time For A Change

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

A look at Newcastle’s ‘open access' electro-music studio.

Brian Eno

is there a future in teaching music

Ever since the invention of the wax cylinder, listening to recorded music has been a passive experience; now CDs are capable of holding MIDI and other performance data. Bob O'Donnell looks at the changing face of music.

The best music program ever?

Part 1: In the States, Coda's Finale has been hailed as the "the most exciting use of the Apple Macintosh to date" and "the most powerful, most intelligent, most flexible music software available today". In this lengthy two-part review, Kendall Wrightson cuts through the hype to discover whether the claims are fact or fiction.

New technology has already brought the music industries of East and West closer together, but how has that affected the music itself, and what will happen as the two cultures get closer still? Gary Larson gives his viewpoint.

The tuition course that breaks the barriers

WAP Spells Tuition — Lorna Read Investigates Music Course

The Jenkins Method

Argue with six string instructor and cult rock hero Billy Jenkins on the best way of teaching yourself to play.

Jonathan Sorrell is one of a handful of session programmers working with the world's most sophisticated sampling keyboard - the Synclavier. Paul Gilby discovers how it came about.

In fact, when is it a musical instrument? We start making sense of the silicon chip.

MoTU Freestyle

Interactive Mac sequencing

Pascal Bussy (SAF Publishing)

Bob Dormon finds the Royal Academy moving with the times

Music technology consultant Martin Russ reports on the recent Conference On Reproduced Sound held by the Institute of Acoustics.