The electric storm blown up by self-styled champion of the MIDI guitar, Martin Howard Naylor, comes to a head this month - sound General Quarters, Commander Data.

When MT invented Audio Fast's De-Composer software as an April Fool's exercise, we couldn't have been aware of a similar secret program Steinberg had already developed - Tom Robinson was...

What have a toasters called Jeffrey and Zippy and an anonymous rice cooker got in common with a collection of Wishbone Ash LPs? Check out this month's readers' letters for the answer.

More letters from the front: a dealer defends himself, a reader attacks the blank tape levy, onlookers rally to Steve Lipson's cause and pop and serious music clash over technology.

Samplers that dissect sound and the misrepresentation of acoustic instruments feature in this month's readers letters page - if you've got a problem or an opinion on music or hi-technology, this is your soap box.

Offended by the contents of Tim Goodyer's editorial? Think MT's music coverage should be extended to cover amateur musos? This and other readers' points covered in this month's letters pages.

Tangerine Dream head the list of topics aired in the E&MM readers' forum. If you have an opinion to add to any subject, this is the place to head for.

Dear Anne Robinson, I've heard that Music Technology's readers' letters page is a hotbed of hi-tech intercourse, and yet it's freely available to children of all ages - can I order an extra copy?

According to your English teacher, there are only 26 letters in the alphabet; so how come the world's leading hi-tech music mag attracts many more each month? Perhaps it's because - like MT's letters - only a proportion are printable. Keep them coming...

It's old favourites time, with Stock, Aitken & Waterman and sampling ethics the main topics of debate in MT's letters page. Is sampling really the aesthetic and ethic of the age?

Readers air their views on such topics as MT's interview policy, synth programming, CD players, robots, MIDI guitars, drum programming... Anyone need advice on marital aids?

Letters, letters, the postman's sick of 'em - if only the offices weren't on the fourth floor. But there are some decidedly strange goings on in MTs letters this month.

Avid followers of pop music and "serious" music compare notes, pleasures and motives in MT's monthly gossip corner. If you've got something to say about music or technology we've got a soapbox for you.

Letters from the front - a warning message from Beats International's Andy Boucher and a man in search of Amiga music software feature in this month's readers' letters page.

At present there are no plans to televise MT's monthly debating society, yet the talks go on: Sueno Latino, Amiga/ST wars, the reasons for making music... If you have anything to say about high technology or music, here's the place to be heard.

Dear MT: I'm into flagellation, necrophilia and bestiality, am I flogging a dead horse? Love, Jim. Dear Jim: no, just a very old joke.

There's a long queue for the soapbox in this month's speaker's corner: new music and old music, good music and bad music. Even MT's in season...

In this month's postbag there are letters about musical literacy, musical ability, musical creativity, musical integrity... And a fax for the Assistant Editor.

Just who was the robot star of Logan's Run? One reader thinks he's caught MT out; meanwhile Martin Howard thinks he's caught the whole human race out.

If you've got a view to air on hi-tech music, equipment, or anyone else's view, this is the place to air it.

Letters of praise, letters of admonishment, begging letters, love letters, chain letters, poison pen letters, solicitors' letters, French letters. . . We get 'em all in MT's regular readers' letters page.

Welcome to a different kind of musicians' magazine, upholding old traditions and breaking new ground.

Where the printed word fails to deliver - how much can words tell you about sounds, and what can you do to bridge the gap between them? Tim Goodyer gets semantic.

"The customer is always right", runs the well-known phrase. But from what we hear this month, musical instrument retailers don't seem to pin much faith in it.