What, a revolution in the US? Tony Mills plays foreign correspondent

The next in Liz Coley's sequence of computer features

Jim Burgess sends us an exclusive preview of Apple's powerful pair of new computers - and assesses their implications for tomorrow's MIDI-using musicians.

Does every silver lining have a cloud? Martin Russ looks beyond the 'low prices' at a few facts for potential buyers of the new Apple Macintosh computers.

The first in a major series of articles describing the design, construction and applications of the Programmable Digital Sound Generator, a music hardware add-on for the BBC Model B. Introduction by Alan Boothman.

Part 2: Applying the PDSG

Some typical applications of the Programmable Digital Sound Generator, outlined by its designer, Alan Boothman.

Part 3: The Detailed Program Interface

Our analysis of the Programmable Digital Sound Generator enters its third phase. Your guide: Alan Boothman.

Do the software companies come up to the standard of hardware manufacturers or are we expecting too much of them? David Mellor looks at music software and how the user is looked after, or otherwise, by the supplier. The debate starts here.

This week a new virus appeared on IBM computer - "AIDS" - how long before one appears in your music system? Vic Lennard looks at viruses and how you can avoid them.

MIDI Composition via Computer

The tale of two songwriters on opposite coasts of America, using different computers and musical instruments, writing and producing a single without face-to-face collaboration until the final mixdown. Al Hospers reveals what happened.

Interfacing your micro to the outside world!

Do you use a computer to help you make music? Then why not go the whole hog and use it to keep track of your songs? Vincent Taylor shows that there's more to computer spreadsheets than merely adding up figures.

The latest scare in the computer world is a series of programs that behave as if they are a human disease. Roly Pickering describes the background to computer viruses and what you con do to protect yourself from them.

Most editing software is more user-friendly than digital parameter access, and more suited to the demands of editing complex digital synthesizers than traditional analogue controls. Greg Truckell investigates.

Proving that too much hex isn't bad for the health, Martin Russ explores the numeric world of 16.

transposition program

what is digital?

are today's micros really helping

sampling secrets

an A to Z of micro talk