The all-but-forgotten guitar synth is due to return to music shops with a vengeance this summer, in the shape of Roland's GR700/G707 system and a breathtaking new British design, the SynthAxe. Paul White puts both instruments through their paces.

Boss have finally managed to get a fully-fledged digital delay unit into the compact dimensions of a pedal. Paul White finds out if the reduction in size has had any side-effects.

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.

An RRP of under £300 makes this German-built unit the cheapest source of sampled rhythm patterns on the market. Review by Paul White.

Geoff Twigg takes a look at this MIDI-standard synth-without-a-keyboard.

Synth-pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark talk to Dan Goldstein about the twists and turns in their musical development, and how they managed to make their new album, Junk Culture, sound more acoustic through the use of computer instruments.

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

A simple program that extends the on-screen editing facilities of SCI's MIDI sequencer, with a description by the author, Billy Cowie.

Woodwind sounds - from both the Western and non-Western worlds - are the subject of this month's missive from Steve Howell.

Part three, and a second took at a Yamaha factory preset. Jay Chapman takes you through it step by step.

Readers send in their own favourite synth sounds and details of how to generate them. Synths featured this month are the Yamaha DX9 and Roland JX3P.

Dan Goldstein sifts through the stack of independent vinyl that landed in the E&MM offices following our appeal, and finds each record has a different tale to tell.

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.

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