Guitarcheck

That familiar old shape with an unfamiliar appendage

Synth Techniques

improve your keyboard chords

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.

The advance of the personal keyboard continues with this exciting new model.

Resident 'DJ' Wilf Smarties gives a new batch of CDs a spin.

Recording tips for this popular machine.

By combining plenty of different sounds with the built-in percussion voices and digital reverb, Roland's MT32 multitimbral expander makes the ideal add-on for any sequencer. But it really takes a software editing program to get the very best out of it. Brian Howarth shows you how.

Fairlight, Drumulator, MIDI software.

Ian Gilby visits The Garden Studio and learns how John Foxx composed and recorded tracks from his recently released album 'In Mysterious Ways'.

This latest four operator FM tone generator takes over where the stop-gap FB01 left off. It may be fully programmable and share some of the new facilities of the DX7 MkII, but is it a winner? Mark Badger finds out.

we get the U.K.'s first sample of the Black Magic Box

Shadow MIDI Guitar system

Part 3: Martin Russ hacks his way deeper into the heart of the MIDI jungle. This month: Buffer size, and how to deal with status swaps.

Gossip, chit-chat, bitching and backchat from the 'Biz. It's all here

Understand the tricks of the trade in our illustrated analysis of guitar skills and techniques.

Vital system updates

Portable Amp designed by Tom Scholz

60 whats? Asks reviewer

Software for the Atari ST

Following the success of C-Lab's Creator sequencing software for the Atari ST, the company have updated it and added a sophisticated scorewriting program. Simon Trask takes note.