Advanced Music Synthesis

Alan Davies discusses electronic speech production and its applications.

Vocal music on computers?

The hard facts

The Texas TMS 5220 Speech Chip comes under scrutiny.

Beastly review?

Etcetera

If you thought vocoders were just an obsolete way of making a singer into a Dalek, you've been missing out. Tom McLaughlin explains music technology's most overlooked innovation.

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

Zero G Datafile Sample CDs

Paul Ireson listens into two dance-oriented sample CDs.

New technology has already brought the music industries of East and West closer together, but how has that affected the music itself, and what will happen as the two cultures get closer still? Gary Larson gives his viewpoint.

Computer Manuals: The Incredible Sound Machine by Mark Andrews, Cool Mac Sounds by Craig O'Donnell, Ontrack Computer Systems Rocket Drive software for the PC, Paramount Rock, Rap & Roll CD-ROM

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?

Computer music and electro-acoustic education in London.

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.

sampling secrets

Read all about Roland's new U20 synth, Korg's M3R and S3 rhythm workstation, Peavey's mouthwatering new recording gear, and lots more!

The latest gear

Simon Millward visits the world-renowned Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, California and talks to its famous director, Professor John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis.

The CDP is a non profit-making co-operative formed by a group of professional composers and researchers at York University, whose intention was to create an affordable personal workstation — a ‘desktop IRCAM’ - on which to run powerful synthesis and signal processing programs. Richard Dobson reveals the power of this Atari ST-based system.

THE COMMODORE AMIGA

You hear so much about (and from) the Atari ST that it's tempting to believe it's the only computer used for making music. Michael Brooke takes a look at a powerful alternative - Commodore's Amiga.