Our extended coverage this month brings you even more inside news, views and hot gossip including our Giant Summer Competition results.

Trace Elliot amplification and yet more software for the Commodore 64 are amongst this month's colection of newsworthy items - plus a chance to win some unique Neuronium regalia in an exclusive competition.

The final part of our competition to win the superb new Prophet 2000 Sampling Keyboard. Go on... have a go!

The winner of MT's "Sampling Madness" competition collects his Akai S700 from those awfully nice Akai people - but how well did you do?

Enter this competition and you could soon be the proud owner of Yamaha's very latest drum machine (worth £329)!

Double dealings in this month's exclusive MT competition: Mark of the Unicorn's Performer sequencing software and copies of Guinness' British Hit Singles are up for grabs.

Enter our simple, three-part competition and you could be the lucky winner of a complete studio package worth over £7,500.

Three chances to win a slice of a £1400 musical instrument cake, in our biggest, easiest-to-enter competition ever. Just the thing to wile away the hours of post-Christmas apathy.

Hot news in this month's Newsdesk includes word of a Proteus upgrade, new Cubeat sequencing software from Steinberg and the winners of MT's Sequencer One competition. Get informed.

The final part of our easy-to-enter competition that could make you the proud owner of a complete 8-track studio package worth over £7,500.

An £1,800 Spirit Studio desk and Reading Festival tickets up for grabs in our Spirit Of Rock'n'Roll competition!

An announcement of the winners of copies of Keynote Software's Chameleon librarian in a recent MT competition join the usual selection of hi-tech equipment and music news in this month's Newsdesk.

If you're making sample-based dance music, killer samples are the key. Unless you've already struck gold, you need to win this month's exclusive competition - the definitive Datafile sample CDs.

Turn to page 108 to find out how to win Roland's amazing MS-1 sampler, and see page 111 for our Cubasis sequencer competition.

Do your recordings sound dull? Enter our competition and you could be putting the spark back in your music with a sonic maximizer!

We're giving away over £10,000-worth of MIDI and recording equipment in our biggest ever competition — part 1 this month.

"No news is good news", runs the old adage. Well, make up your own mind as Casio and Korg announce new gear at the BMF, Simmons go under, the Soundscape competition winner is announced, and MVs Editor hits the airwaves.

Another exclusive free-to-enter competition. Write a feature on your favourite E&MM-type subject, and you could become a regular freelance contributor - and win a brand new Yamaha DX100 polysynth as part of the deal.

How to sound like Phil Collins in two easy moves: (1) enter this simple competition to win the superb Gatex four-channel expander/noise gate, and (2) buy yourself a set of drums and start practising!

Enter this fabulous competition and you could be the proud owner of a C-lab Notator for the Atari ST or Mark of the Unicorn Performer sequencer for the Mac — the choice is yours!

Part two of our simple, three-part competition in which you could win a complete studio package worth over £7,500.

Read any good detective stories lately? Follow the clues to this competition at the BMF and you could be the proud owner of a much sought-after Ensoniq ESQ-1 multitimbral polysynth with onboard 8-track MIDI sequencer. Full details and entry form on page 42.