Who, What, Where & When...

The gossip that's hot from the team that's not

The CZ101 is the spearhead of Casio's first serious onslaught on the pro-synth market. We check out this contender for the DX's digital synthesis crown.

Synthcheck

Is small beautiful? Jim Betteridge knows

Mammoth Electro Fest: Simmons' contender, the UP5, Yamaha's RX15 drum machine, new Digisound chips for the Drumulator, Quicksilva's Drumkit program for the BBC micro...

Boss Dr Rhythms

Two new Doctors, but will they make you feel good?

Colin Cat takes a look at Amstrad's first and possibly last home keyboard

Roland M480 & M240R Rackmount Line Mixers

The competition to squeeze the maximum number of inputs and effects busses into the smallest possible rack space continues, as Kendall Wrightson discovers.

The quick-reference equipment guide to end all equipment guides. In this, the Checklist's inaugural month, polysynths, expanders and controlling keyboards come under the E&MM microscope.

PB on the BB (1200)

The price guide to end all price guides. This time, we return to drum machines and electronic drum kits, and find a lot has changed in three months.

drum synth

a blockhead's history of reggae

A ten preset voice electronic piano with touch sensitive keyboard and separate bass section.

Nautical naffness, Premier partying, Demo doom and more

Kawai SX-240

Kawai's SX 240 portable keyboard appeals to the eye but what about the ear?

Separateness reviewed.

Band Aid

how they made music for Ethiopia

Exclusive reviews of two avant garde music festivals that saw technology pushed to its creative limits, Ars Electronica at Linz and the International Computer Music Conference at IRCAM, Paris.

Italian-designed keyboards have received mixed success over the years. Elka's old Rhapsody string synth was a popular instrument in the seventies but their main polysynth, the Synthex, failed to set the world alight. That may well be about to change with the release of their impressive 9-voice, multi-timbral, DX7-soundalike, the EK44, and the 6-voice analogue EK22. Or is it? Mark Jenkins offers his views.

Phil Brammer runs through the pro's and cons of the Proteus Editor from Caged Artist

E-mu Systems, Inc. PROTEUS/1 16 bit Multi-timbral digital sound module

We see how the Proteus One will stand up to the competition of its already booming market