University of Surrey Electro-Acoustic Music Studio

A look at the Surrey Sound electronic and computer music studio, scene of the Tonmeister degree course.

A visit to a massive show devoted solely to this innovative micro, and a look at some of the hardware and software on display there.

After several weeks of collating your replies, an explanation of the results of this revealing survey.

Digital Percussion Machine

How it Works

Part one of a series on designing and building a digital percussion sampling device.

Fairlight, Drumulator, MIDI software.

Setting the Scene

Part one of a survey of music-printing instruments.

An in-depth investigation into the problems of digital filter design and their possible effects, plus a simple circuit for an ultra-powerful low-pass filter.

The reasoning behind the new-look CM. Your guide, David Ellis.

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

Music add-ons for home micros.

A special report on the latest versions of these successful German instruments. Review by David Ellis.

Getting it together

PCB overlay and pricing details, plus apologies for the gremlins that crept into part one of David Ellis' description of this digital percussion sampling device.

More MIDI meanderings...

Sequential Circuits' MIDI sequencer for the Commodore 64 looks like a bargain at only £185. David Ellis checks out the reality.

Printing the Part

David Ellis concludes his survey of music-transcribing devices. Among the products featured this month are units from Fairlight, New England Digital, Con Brio and Xerox.

David Ellis and the sad tale of an Italian computer music add-on that bears more than a passing resemblance to established designs from the States.

Music Mate, Mainframe's Apple sound sampler and updates for the Synergy.

And following on from that, David Ellis takes an in-depth look at how the MIDI system works, and the sort of potential it encompasses.

A complete guide to all the hardware interfaces for home micros available so far, plus the software that goes with them.

The ins and outs of copyright protection.

MIDI Computer Interface and Software

German company Jellinghaus have been producing some interesting-looking MIDI software for some while. Now Rosetti are bringing it into the UK, and David Ellis has managed to get his hands on a few review samples.

SMPTE codes for the home studio and yet more software for the Synclavier, among other things.