The latest offering from Yamaha and Roland plus details of Atari's first sponsorship deal

Mike Collins reports on what's new for Macintosh owners at the recent Mac World show in the States

Your demo tape could win you a brand new Casio VZ-1 synthesizer plus a day in ARC's recording facilities

Leslie Bunder talks to Steve Morris from top Indie band New Order

Paul Overaa continues his series in the MIDI standard with a look at the MIDI File Format

John Renwick goes back to school with a whole range of music tutorial packages from Hybrid Arts

Leading light in the world of Dr T. Al Hospers talks exclusively to John Renwick about future developments in the range

We look at internal sampling packages for all the top micros in this definitive round up

Bill Collins has bought a CD player and has already put it to Rhythmic use is Volume two in the Sonic Images series

Peter Fitzpatrick gets to grips with Casio's flagship synth - the VZ-1

Paul Glaister takes us deeper into Steinberg's premiere sequencing package

Phil Brammer goes Euro with a look at the Recording scene in Amsterdam with some surprising results

John Renwick gets synchronised with this nifty little device from Radius

If you have one of those oldie but goodie type synths that were pre MIDI fear not you can now link it into your existing MIDI system thanks to Groove Electronics

Brian Heywood benchtests the latest laptop PC from Sound N Compute

Jez Ford is seriously effected by Digitech's latest signal processor - the DSP-128