for Atari and PC (Windows) computers

Systems Music

Musical mathematics made easy

Ian Waugh unveils the secrets of a good old-fashioned analogue sequencer that generates MIDI data, courtesy of some good old-fashioned German R&D from manufacturers Doepfer, with a little help from their friends Kraftwerk. Vorsprung durch technik, as Ian says.

Using Sequencers with Modular Systems

In something of a break from tradition, Steve Howell begins a look at how using a modular synth can expand the horizons of the common or garden monophonic sequencer.

Name Your Poison

On the hour, every hour.

In part two of this short series, David Etheridge looks at the role of effects and unusual chords in New Age music.

The Virgin Guide To New Music

A special report on the proceedings at this year's UK Electronica festival. Words by Tony Mills; pictures by Alf Annison, Stuart Catterson, Tony Mills and Chris Jenkins.

What goes on behind the apparently calm world of soundtrack-writing, by Steve Howell, who's been through it all himself.

Floppy disks and tape, Microsound 64, SCI Model 64

including The A-to-Z of Analogue

PPG

PPG designers interviewed

Stereo imaging has come on a long way from simply panning instruments between two speakers to create the illusion of a band on stage. Ernie Tello looks into state-of-the-art sound processing and what it can do for music.

Intro...

An introduction to a series on "music in which people are doing interesting, and often strange, things".

What the hell's a MIDI Performance System? David Mellor does his level best to explain.

An instrument which has shaped today's electro-music

Synth Expander

The latest addition to Oberheim's classic Matrix range offers 1000 analogue-style synth sounds for under £500. Simon Trask investigates the attraction of analogue in '88.

Dave Crombie checks out the Oberheim 4-voice polyphonic synth.

This low-cost program for the Atari ST uses Artificial Intelligence techniques to take all the hard work out of programming FM synths and allows you to create new ‘musical’ voices quickly and easily. David Hughes enters the edit zone...

Atari ST Software

The latest sequencer from the Dr T's stable takes interactive composition by the horns. Ian Waugh examines the software and the merits of mathematical music making.