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Patchable monophonic single oscillator synth

Comprehensive model-by-model listing of all available synths, drum machines, sequencers and accessories featuring the MIDI standard.

Kurzweil K2000

Kurzweil's new keyboard offers genuine innovation: versatile synthesis, an unparalleled user interface, and up to 64MB of user sampling are only the start of what sets the K2000 apart from other sample-based instruments. Craig Anderton explains why it will turn the head of even the most jaded technophile.

Three jam-packed pages of hot new products.

Introducing MT's unique encyclopedia of analogue synthesisers: part 1, Akai to ARP

E-mu Emulator

These days a few hundred pounds will buy you technology that once cost thousands. Gordon Reid looks at an early sampler and discovers there's more to it and its manufacturer than you might have known.

ARP Odyssey owner and enthusiast Gordon Reid remembers the only synthesiser that gave the Minimoog a run for its money back in the 70s - the sounds of oscillator cross-modulation and filter sweeps live on.

A useful add-on for signal processors having an external modulation input. Design and presentation by Paul White.

From Schoolhouse To Multitrack

Picking up the signals from the world of music and technology...

Part 2, ARP to Buchla. Buchla? Yep, Buchla

The latest activities at one of the UK's lesser-known electro-acoustic music studios, put into perspective by its mentor, Phil Ellis.

...was the title of The South Bank Show's much-criticised electronic music extravaganza of a couple of months back. Here the programme's musical consultant, composer Tim Souster, argues the case in favour of the show's content.

Instruments and Equipment

Split as they are (these pages) into Studios and Recording, Instruments and Equipment, and Etcetera (for news pieces with no homes to go to).

Keyboards

Part 2: Arp, Oberheim, Korg, Sequential Circuits

This month: Farfisa to Fuller.

By a babbling Brook

A first hand report on the trials and joys of setting up your own electronic music studio.

Steve Howell reveals the inner secrets behind the planning stage of your home studio.

Reports from the musical instrument exhibition plus interviews with five of the world's top designers, researchers and experts.

The question "can computers write music" has never been more important than it is in 1989; what is an algorithmic composition program, and will it ever replace the human composer? Ian Waugh composes himself.

A journey through the musical world of this well respected guitarist