Wilf Smarties gives a new batch of CDs a spin.

Mik Sweeney talks about his guitars and Sal Solo describes how he is acquiring production skills.

Guitar, bass and memory review.

Keyboardcheck

More money means Mirage-mangling, maybe? Tony Mills sizes up the latest sampling supersynth

From Gretsches to Strats, from Pop to Jazz. The ever-changing songwriter talks chords, choruses and contrapuntals with Adrian Deevoy

Back with a new album 'Jazz From Hell' composed and executed almost entirely on Synclavier, this 60s cult hero explains to Paul Gilby why he has turned his back on lyrics and the reasons for his four-year love affair with the sexy black keyboard with the round Winchester disks!

a dictionary of terms

Synthesiser Module

It’s more than just a rackmountable version of the JD-800, but just exactly how much more you’ll have to ask Ian Waugh to find out. A flagship is the ship aboard which the commander of the fleet is quartered, by the way - so look out for portraits of the Roland Board Of Directors on the back panel

Synth Module

Synth Revival, Sounds Realistic, er... Stop Rashes

Music workstation

Keyboard-driven control

Possibly the most timely and influential synthesiser development of the 70s was the Prophet 5. Dave Crombie takes a look back at the polysynth that was modelled on the Minimoog.

Oldies identified: Epiphone, Ibanez, Fender, Eros, Radiotone, Hofner, Rickenbacker, Excetro and Fasan.

Raiders from Westone, EMG pickups and more besides

Que Computer Hardware Buyers Guide, AMG Global Trance Mission sample CDs, Microsoft Music Multimedia CD-ROMs

The MIDI Bank Select Message Explained

A cosmic David Etheridge gets to the spirit of New Age music in the first instalment of a two-part series.

People, Gear, Events, Gossip

happening people, gear, events, gossip

Akai the new...

Martin Russ attends the Second International Computer Music Weekend Conference held at Keele University, 28-29th January 1989.

With Sampling Keyboards

Vocal line out of tune? Lead guitarist fluffed his solo again? Craig Anderton reveals some ways of using a sampler to fix these, and other problems, in the mix.

A computer-based digital music synthesiser

The band called it music, the press called it confrontational noise, and the public bought it and danced to it. Stephen Hillier talks to the men behind Renegade Soundwave.

Here's Health

musicians' ailments: how to get, how to avoid

RCM Synthesis explained

In this second part of our in-depth review of the SY77 synthesizer, Martin Russ delves into Yamaha's ultra new synthesis method: Real-time Convolution and Modulation.