News, views and chart.

Letters to the ES&CM team.

Readers demos' reviewed in print and a selection on tape.

Yamaha's professional FM sequencer master keyboard and FM modules.

Siel's new expander based on the DK80 synth.

Sequential's new package and ATPL's keyboard for the BBC micro.

The Music System - now for the Commodore 64.

Akai's first sampler - with its own 'Quick Disk' facility.

A modification that turns your digital delay into a sampler.

The MPC percussion system: DSM1/2; DSM 8 Auto Tom; DSM 32 x 4 drum synth; Programmers Rhythm Sequencer.

8 track real time MIDI sequencer software from Electronic Research.

New looping software for the Greengate DS:3.

A talk on the cheap side as the duo explain the democratisation of electronic music, and what they use to achieve it. (Including a preview of the UMI-2B interface).

A contemporary composer drawing inspiration from the classics

Win £400 Rossetti's MIDI Control Package.

An enterprising duo who mix business and pleasure in the pursuit of music making.

Tom Ellard, Severed Head's supremo, on sound surgery and synths.

First part on how to go about releasing your own electronic record. A D.I.Y. guide.

Detailed Instructions on how to build your own ES&CM MIDI sequencer. (Software on tape).

The father of modern synthesis talks exclusively to us about the new generation of sound creating instruments.

Spotlighting Poly Magoo.

Electronic album overview.