Composer & Drummer

This Sinclair ZX81 add-on will take control of your synth and drum machine.

Beyond the Groove

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While many of us dream of a career writing music for films, a select few are actually doing it. Lawrence UlIman talks to Gary Chang, a resident Hollywood scorewriter.

Some Spectrum software for our music control micro-peripheral project, published in E&MM June '83. Explanations by the project's designer, Jim Grant.

At last, the CMI frees itself from the constraints of an analogue interface and starts talking MIDI. Paul Wiffen checks out the results.

What happened when the International MIDI Association talked software, plus more. Newscaster - David Ellis.

David Ellis digs deep inside Yamaha's MSX music computer, and finds it's capable of interfacing with more external hardware than its manufacturers seem willing to disclose...

Could this be the ideal keyboard for computer musicians? John Renwick finds out

Add-on for BBC Micro

David Ellis casts a critical eye over a new music keyboard for the BBC Micro that controls the computer's internal sound chip and is compatible with Acorn's Music 500 synth add-on.

Part 4: Further Hardware Details

The resumption of our series describing the design of Clef Products' new computer music system for the BBC micro, the PDSG. Designer Alan Boothman takes up the story.

Brings news of a new British sound sampling drum machine, a digital signal processor from Eventide, and more.

After a two-month absence, Jim Grant returns to the fold with some notes on CMI waveforms, lightpens and interpolation.

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Hardware and Software for Sinclair Spectrum

E&MM new-boy Simon Trask gets his teeth into a Spectrum-based sampling system that retails for no more than £50.

Can computers improve or even replace current styles of notation?

Concluding The Digital To Analogue Programs

Part 4: ZX Spectrum freezes echoes.

Software for Commodore 64 and Spectrum

He was unimpressed by the same company's step-time MIDI package, but how does Steve Howell rate its real time equivalent?

The latest gear

A review of 'Keyboards', a software package for the BBC Model B.

News on the forthcoming invasion of MSX home computers, the International MIDI Association, the Decillionix system and the Kurzweil digital keyboard.

Part 5: Sound Systems Revisited

Our series on Clef Products' synth add-on for the BBC Micro comes to a conclusion. Alan Boothman ties up the loose ends.

Scaling Heights On The BBC Micro

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