New York was the setting for the 83rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, where audio manufacturers gathered to show off their new wares. Craig Anderton provides a rundown of the main highlights.

What to expect at the Big Show in June

For some time now Roland's synthesizer range has been lacking a flagship model worthy of the Jupiter 8's reputation. Mark Jenkins believes they finally have one in the form of their very latest 12-voice JX-10 Super JX polysynth. Read why...

Blue Weaver, former Bee-Gee and session musician takes Janet Angus round his new studio.

Simply years ahead

Four pages packed with news hot from BMF

Stereo Recording

Special mic techniques employed on stereo recording are explained this month.

APRS Show reviewed

Marillion's Steve Rothery plays Kayleigh

Guitarist Steve Rothery shows you how to play 'Kayleigh' in words and pictures

A focus on this computer-based band, their home studio and newly-developed sound sampling device that is changing the way they record.

Roland Dealer News

From the shrill squeak of the soprano to the sepulchral tones of the basso profundo, the Eventide H3000 can create the full spectrum of human vocalisation out of the merest baritono ordinario. David Mellor gives it an aural test.

MIDI controller data can have many uses such as adding "feel" to music after it's been recorded into a sequencer. Vic "Megalomaniac" Lennard explores this and many other applications.

polyphonic sampling for a grand

Ricky Gordon fires questions at hot Cole

'Hymn' music to play — we've linked the music to an exclusive interview with Midge Ure and Billy Currie on E&MM cassette, discussing and playing the instruments for this new Ultravox single

Chrissie Hynde, UB40, Jim Betteridge

Summer Show 1983

Students projects in music

Stephen Luscombe, Adrian Lee and Clare Hirst

Sampling Synthesizer

The DSS-1 offers 12-bit sampling, high fidelity samples, integral dual digital delay and EQ, plus the most comprehensive synthesizer section of all the midrange samplers. Review by Mark Jenkins.

The Return of the Modular Synthesizer

Digidesign continue to add to their innovative range of synthesis programs which use the flexibility of computers for sound creation and the hardware of MIDI samplers to replay the sounds. Paul Wiffen finds he loves the former but hates the latter.