Polysynths, voice expanders and remote keyboard controllers are the subject of this month's no-holds-barred price guide. Don’t buy another instrument until you've read this.

Pickups, headsets, guitars...

Otherwise known as Paul Day, who identifies your old, unusual and weird guitars.

Studio Test

Richard Walmsley on another contender for the 'small is beautiful' stakes

Still suffering from a dearth of software, the powerful Acorn Archimedes computer has yet to gain acceptance in music circles - will this sequencer help it on its way? Ian Waugh checks it out.

If no news is good news, how come this is so wonderful?

When IBM - the Big Blue - conquered the business computer market, music was the last thing on their corporate mind. Yet in 1990, the PC is gaining ground as a music machine. Ian Waugh reports.

Power Play Portable? Gary Cooper finds out

Software for the Atari ST

The competition for an industry-standard sequencing program to accompany the industry-standard computer hots up, as Simon Trask finds out when he picks up the mouse on C-Lab's contender.

Keyboards

No free ads for the Superman film here (woops), but the dynamic Duo from Hohner (Pianet and Clavinet combined) finds favour with frolicking Dave Crombie.

The good, the bad and the ugly

Museums, master tapes, MIDI and more; plus, as usual, Deevoy's Demo Demolition

Book Reviews

New Books - Quick Looks

In a world that's constantly changing

software for a melodic BBC

Etcetera

At the time Moog discontinued the Minimoog, they launched the first programmable monosynth to use digital parameter editing. Nick Magnus reflects on a synth that was ahead of its time but overlooked by most players.

American pitch-to MIDI

Jez Ford is seriously effected by Digitech's latest signal processor - the DSP-128

Dave Crombie checks out the Oberheim 4-voice polyphonic synth.