Standing at one of the most exciting crossroads in musical history we look at the pros and cons of electronic music.

Part 2, ARP to Buchla. Buchla? Yep, Buchla

Software for Apple Macintosh

Martin Russ reviews the superbly professional Southworth 'Total Music' software recorder for the Apple Macintosh computer.

Vintage technology strikes back

...including The A-Z of Analogue

Picking up the signals from the world of music and technology...

Readers' patches for DX7, CZ101 and Bit One synths, and the Yamaha CX5M micro. Keep 'em coming...

Paul Nagle

Warp Records

MT's enquiry into the health of the independent label scene continues with a visit to the home of electronic listening music.

Which is better, analogue or digital? Elka back the horse both ways by providing synths of both persuasions, with modular versions of both, too. Paul Wiffen thinks they're onto a winner, whichever way you look.

Vintage technology strikes back

...Including The A-Z of Analogue

This month, Electronic Dream Plant to Elka.

Sequencers

Sequencer Anatomy

Analogue Systems TH48

Analogue sequencer

This month, Elka Eminent to Everitt Orgatron.

UK Electronica

More soft poop scoops from the investigative mind of Adrian Deevoy

May MIDI Madness

An Introduction to the Use of Sequencers

An introduction to the use of the perennial tools of the electronic composers trade. With some explanation of programming from music and notation.

A special report on the latest versions of these successful German instruments. Review by David Ellis.

Exclusive reviews of two avant garde music festivals that saw technology pushed to its creative limits, Ars Electronica at Linz and the International Computer Music Conference at IRCAM, Paris.

Lyricon-blowing John Walters, of Landscape fame if not fortune (yet), undertakes the western world's most comprehensive guide to the history, construction and playing of the Lyricon wind synthesiser.

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