Floppy disks and tape, Microsound 64, SCI Model 64

MusiCalc Software. The best software yet for the Commodore 64?

Software Surplus

Writing new music software seems to be the most popular current preoccupation for the world's music and computer industries. We take a look at six of the latest packages to hit the UK.

Organ Master/Island Logic

An add-on sound board, and a comprehensive disc-based music system for the Beeb micro.

The CZ101 is the spearhead of Casio's first serious onslaught on the pro-synth market. We check out this contender for the DX's digital synthesis crown.

Datel Sound Sampler

Datel's Spectrum-compatible Sound Sampler offers a genuine introduction to the techniques of sound sampling. We listen in.

A multitracking keyboard for the computer musician.

Millioniser 2000

The Millioniser 2000, a synth harmonica that may sound as odd as it looks.

Will there be a rush to purchase Siel's new CMK 49 computer gizmo? We pass judgement.

Music Maker

With a package designed to get the most from the micro's own sound chip.

Yet another MIDI system controller package, this time for the Spectrum, and already finding favour with musicians.

Compusonics digital home recording system should be with us by the end of the year. This is a first report on a system that could be the death knell of the portastudio.

ISLAND LOGIC CBM64 SOFTWARE

The Music System - now for the Commodore 64.

MUSIC MATE/ATPL

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

Music Works software (Apple Macintosh)

Music software for the Macintosh

Passport MIDI/4, Polywriter

Two new software packages

Sequencercheck

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

The Next Logical Step

This 4 track MIDI sequencer is a step in the right direction for Casio but have the budget restrictions limited its appeal?

Chris Jenkins and Simon Trask examine the musical implications of Commodore’s 16-bit monster computer. Will it be simply a haven for the gamesters and the accountants, or will it find a place on the shelves of music shops?

Chris Jenkins gets to grips with the first multitrack MIDI recording package for Atari's hi-spec, hi-tech home computer. Does it deliver the goods?

Commodore Music System

If you're a computer manufacturer and you've got excess stocks to sell, you switch the emphasis to music. That's what Commodore have done, as Chris Jenkins reports.

Software for the Amiga

A British company have a comprehensive sampling package for Commodore's Amiga. Does it set a standard against which subsequent Amiga software will be judged? Chris Jenkins finds out.

Casio CZ-1

Since the release of their diminutive yet ground-breaking CZ-101 synth, Casio have been steadily improving the facilities of their Phase Distortion keyboards with each subsequent CZ product. The culmination of those efforts is now manifest in their best-ever synthesizer, the CZ-1, a truly professional performance instrument. Chris Jenkins says 'welcome'.

Add-ons for small computers are getting more and more professional in their facilities, their quality and their presentation, as Chris Jenkins discovers.

Chris Jenkins again, with a new program that lets Commodore owners look inside the Yamaha-licensed FM sound chip. A DX7 for sixpence?