Preset/Programmable Digital Drum Machine

Technics attempt to marry the home-organ drum machine and the digital percussion computer. Success or failure? Dan Goldstein tells all.

Prophet 600

While Sequential's Prophet 5 will always be regarded as a milestone in synthesiser technology, their Prophet 600 is almost forgotten already. Gordon Reid attempts to correct the history books.

For some time now Roland's synthesizer range has been lacking a flagship model worthy of the Jupiter 8's reputation. Mark Jenkins believes they finally have one in the form of their very latest 12-voice JX-10 Super JX polysynth. Read why...

Software for Sinclair Spectrum

Music software for the Sinclair Spectrum is alive and well. Simon Trask reports on a ten-track sequencer package from Swedish company 10 Systems.

Our regular column devoted to readers’ hints and tips about their recording equipment, instruments, software and playing techniques.

Sound Module

Carry On Doctor...

A survey of electronic treatments

Toa MR-8T 8-track Cassette Recorder

If you thought eight tracks on standard cassette was an impossibility, think again. David Mellor assesses the world's first 8-track cassette recorder. Will it do to 8-track tape machines what the portastudio did to 4-tracks? Read on and find out...

Chill out with 5 horizontal questions and win Positiva's brand new compilation album of ambient sounds, featuring Aphex Twin, The Orb, Irresistible Force and many more

An ex-music critic turns prolific avant garde composer and finds himself in demand from the Time Out fraternity. Dan Goldstein talks to the man everyone calls a systems music composer—wrongly.

Vesta-Fire FX Pedals plus D-1X Digital Delay & L-1 Low Frequency Oscillator

New pedals on test

Pin back ver lug'oles, pen an' paper at the ready, and maybe you'll win a 4-track mini-studio. All non-entrants win guaranteed death from envy.

Happy Birthday To Us! 8 Years On Top

thump, boom, and so on

Not, as you might have thought, a guide on how to run a protection racket (Sorry, Squire, I scratched the Westlake), but how to make them cost-effective.

if you’ve got plenty of feeling but your technique lets you down - try playing the blues

As musicians demand ever more from their samplers, Akai replace the studio-standard S900 with an enhanced machine. Vic Lennard samples the march of progress.

Question: What do you do when your synth blows a fuse and you blow your top? Answer: You take it along to London's new Synthesizer Service Centre set up by skilled repairmen Ron Lebar and David Croft. Matthew Newman reports.

As October is Guitar Month we chat to Hap Kuffner, Vice-President of Steinberger Inc who proffers a few wise words about the current state of the industry

8:4:2 mixer

The ergonomics of the small mixer redefined

MIDI to CV Interface

MIDI to CV conversion made simple.