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Yet another show. Organised by the Audio Engineering Society, this 4-day show displayed the latest advancements in recording technology.

Sex, decadent Rock Stars and Mediterranean Batik — it's all here for your delectation

Goes Chrimbo Crazy

A special seasonal waft of your favourite news and gossip column, this time drifting through the whole magazine and including mini-interviews with the likes of China Crisis and jokes from the likes of us. The fun starts here.

Who's in, who's out, where, why, and what. What?

Level 42's Svengali gets his comeuppance

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

Keith Emerson On Korg. Gordon Giltrap On MIDI Guitars Peter Oxendale On Sampling

Roland Dealer News

Ampcheck

Marshall takes the bass end market by storm. Curtis Schwartz takes a fancy to the whole range

Another month's worth of hot products.

The multitrack Wisden strolls up the stumps once again

Live Aid

Gig of the century, report of the millenium by Jim Betteridge

ST editing software for the Sound Canvas

The success of your Canvas could rest on this software.

A visit to a massive show devoted solely to this innovative micro, and a look at some of the hardware and software on display there.

Edited by Mark Vail, Miller Freeman Books

Vintage Synthesizers edited by Mark Vail. An American book celebrating the classics

Can you cope with a life of motorways, transits and cafe grease? Roadside Rescuer Adrian Legg advises from grim experience.

John Renwick gets his axe out and processes it with the aid of this rack-mount unit from Digitech

Mixing

Simon Croft takes up from Steve Howell and gives his views on creative remixing.

Fairlight, Drumulator, MIDI software.

Detailed notes on the design and construction of a complete synthesiser voice card you can build yourself, by the team that put it all together in the first place.