As Britain’s brightest electro-poppers climb back up the charts against all the odds, Tim Goodyer talks to Larry Steinbachek about beat, music composition on a QX1, and facing the world with a new voice.

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

Deep Bass Nine

TB303-type synth module

An exclusive interview with this world famous synthesist of classical music and an exploration of his science fiction fantasy, The Bermuda Triangle

The CX5M music computer could change the face of the home micro-music market. We examine the first dedicated music computer to reach the UK

Studio Focus

Dynamic Bitimbric Polysynth

It boasts a list of features as long as your arm and a price tag that makes it one of the most accessible MIDI polysynths, but does the musical reality fulfil the paper promises? Trish McGrath reports.

E-mu's Proteus sample player has been one of the stars of recent trade shows, yet it's been in desperately short supply in the UK. Vic Lennard finds it's been worth the wait.

What is an African thumb piano and why

A cornucopia of new ideas

Programmable Polyphonic FM Synthesizer

An overview of this flagship of the DX range of FM-based synthesisers

Casio discover MIDI

Yes, we can READ too! And to prove it

Do you like sampled instrument sounds, but hate all of that tedious disk loading, looping and general messing about? Then you'll love Roland's new U110 sample player. Paul Ireson takes it for a spin.

Mark Jenkins reckons he knows his onions when it comes to hi-tech gear, so we asked him to concoct a tasty little number with this new French sampling drum machine - a cross between an RX11 and SP-12.

This month: Farfisa to Fuller.

Mark Cunningham finds producer O'Duffy in hypnotic mood

BPM StudioTechnik CR73

Berlin’s hottest new condenser mic