Twin oscillator mono synth

Trish McGrath gets the lowdown on a whole stack of readers' own synth sounds, while Paul Wiffen gives an appraisal of a new library of samples for the Ensoniq Mirage.

Moog Taurus Pedals

Ultimate bass? Legendary synth pioneers Moog once made the best bass synth on the planet: Paul Ward reassesses the power of Taurus in the light of '90s bass mania.

Stand on one foot to play Moog's newly designed version of their famous bass pedals.

Bass Pedals

Think of those things on the floor under the organ. Now chop them up a bit and separate them. We dance on the result

MIDI to CV Interface

MIDI to CV conversion made simple.

Anthony Braine informs us of his own home set-up.

Readers send in their own favourite synth sounds and how to generate them. Plenty of monosynths this month, including the Moog Prodigy, Transcendent 2000 and Roland SH-101.

Programmability on synthesisers - a convenience or an essential part of the evolution of electronic instruments and music? Tim Goodyer considers the real implications of something we all take for granted.

Gigsound

The E&MM Buyers' Guide For Beginners

So you've saved your pennies and want to join the world of synthesisers, but don't know where to start looking? E&MM's buyers' guide shows you how.

A look at some of the new products revealed at the Musik Messe '83

A super-spy comes clean, but the questions go on

Bit One

The stunning Bit One Poly - Keyboard split and layer, with separate memory access, and the kind of facilities you would expect to find on a machine costing three or four times as much... our reviewer is seduced...

Follow-up to issue 1

low-priced FM, mega important

A church, a portastudio, and a blue hippopotamus? Well, what do you expect from a band called Sam-I-Am?

Groove M4CV MIDI-to-CV Convertor

Old analogue synths never die — they just gather dust until you can find a reason to kick them into life again. As Chris Ankin discovers, the Groove M4CV MIDI-to-CV convertor could be just such a reason.

After producing artists ranging from Bomb the Bass and S 'Xpress to Bryan Ferry and Wet Wet Wet, Pascal Gabriel is about to begin his own career as a recording artist. Tim Goodyer discovers a Lovechild.

Geoff Mitcham's account of how he set up his own mobile recording studio.