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SoftwareCheck

Sometimes Musical Micro just ain't big enough to hold down a piece of really macho software... Tony Mills grabs a suddenly floppy disk, and enters the cage.

Who you (the readers) voted as best musician, and what you (still the readers) voted as best gear. We shake the world.

And A Happy Birthday To Us

Come to our party, have some jelly, read some of our best bits, and wish us a happy first birthday, hip hip...

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The World's Best Songwriters

four stars choose their favourite songsters - Fish, Vince Clarke, Edwyn Collins, Chris Difford

Vintage technology strikes back

...including The A-Z of Analogue

Vintage technology strikes back

...Including The A-Z of Analogue

The day of the digital, a Casio commendation, getting totally wired, winning a mixer and whacking a Zildjian

An expert's opinion better than an exploding onion

If you're looking for the sound of the Minimoog without the limitations of pre-MIDI gear, the MIDImoog could be for you. Tim Goodyer puts the 1989 version of Moog's classic synth through its paces.

Tittle-tattle on the hurly-burly

Kenton MIDI Retrofits

With analogue technology enjoying a renaissance, there's a growing demand for MIDI updates to old equipment. Vic Lennard talks to Kenton Electronics about the Ins and Outs of retrofitting.

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.

Public address or public convenience?

Moog Taurus Pedals

Ultimate bass? Legendary synth pioneers Moog once made the best bass synth on the planet: Paul Ward reassesses the power of Taurus in the light of '90s bass mania.

A complete history of record production accompanied by quotations and anecdotes from no fewer than 18 of the world's leading producers.

Ideas, asides, impertinences, and that.

Cheap guitars, new samplers, drum machines, synths and more - plus free details if you want them

Our new series for drummers is for bashers and non-bashers alike: first, how to keep time

The prospect of a high-spec sample player bearing the Emu name, but costing 'under £1000', had musician's waiting with baited breath for its appearance. Now Proteus is here, and Paul Ireson breathes a sigh of relief as he finds that it was worth the wait.

Producer John Walters discusses how those noughts and ones will affect us musiciany beings.