Vintage technology strikes back

The retro-lover's playground

Or To Each His Own

Sequencercheck

Casio get further into the pro market, Chris Jenkins gets into their newie

The whole music industry sliced into Twiglets

John Renwick takes an internal sound chip synth program for the Atari ST for a test drive

View from the rear; this month New Age gets the old boot

Here is the news

President of the Roland Corporation

A Re-Review Of The Roland MC4 Microcomposer

...But let us not forget what went before. Steve Howell again, on the machine that introduced the world to recording music by punching in a set of numbers. It's still usable today.

The Innovator Returns

Kurzweil may have invented the ROM sample player as we know it, but others seem to have reaped the benefits. Four years on from the 1000 series, the K1200 and Pro 76 keyboards, and Pro 1 module, offer improved sounds and facilities. David Etheridge dives in at the deep end.

This month: Hohner

Classical music on computer sequencers has been on the cards (disks?) for years now it's happened, but does it work? Ian Waugh boots up Bach, Handel, Mozart...

Readers' replies to the second half of our survey, analysed by David Ellis.