The Changing Scene

Yamaha DX5

Yamaha's follow-up machine to the DX7 is essentially a budget DX1, offering two '7s in one neat package. We take a look at the DX5.

Ian Burden of Human League outlines beginner's tips and a future strategy for electronic music.

All profits from Tony Horkins' features go to Live Aid

Yamaha SY99 Sample Disks

Rockschool's Alastair Gavin ganders at the vastly praised digital synth, and decides they're right.

Practical hints and tips for the modern recording musician. Martin Russ shares some of his hi-tech pearls of wisdom.

CD-ROM sample player

The CD Side of sampling.

Who's bought what from where.

Bailey and Betteridge get together for a banter

Hints on replacement pickups for electric guitars

Hints and tips on replacement pickups for your guitar

Multiple Loops & Timestretch

In this final part of the series, Akai product specialist Steve Howell explores sample editing using multiple loops, and the S1000’s new timestretch feature.

SR 100, SR 100B

The latest budget priced bass and six string from Japan.

First Steps In Multi-timbrality

Trish McGrath gets the lowdown on a whole stack of readers' own synth sounds, while Paul Wiffen gives an appraisal of a new library of samples for the Ensoniq Mirage.

Jean Michel Jarre explains his current views on music, synthesisers and synthesis in an in-depth interview.

The final disc in the Zero-G Datafile series joins Coldcut's Kleptomania in the growing library of sample CDs - Tim Goodyer checks them out, while Andy Neve loads The Sound Foundation's programming efforts into his Roland MKS70 in this month's Patchwork.

You may have what seems like the perfect combination of MIDI voice module and guitar controller, but without some kind of interface unit, you may not get the best out of them. Rick Davies points you in the right direction.