Video Producer

Jim Betteridge eases you into the big leather chair, switches on the monitors, presses the 'play' button...

Featuring sequencer software for the IBM PC from Octave Plateau, Sight & Sound’s Music Processor software for the CBM64 and a music-copying program in use at Oxford University’s Music Faculty.

Audio Visual Cassette Deck

Part two, in which we meet the fifth Beatle, George Martin, and also brush with Trevor Horn's Fairlight.

A gentleman and a scholar

Keyboards

Soundintpix presents 'Swarm (Isn't it)', starring Dave Crombie as Henry Fonda and a yellow and black object that goes Buzz and strikes terror into the hearts of more expensive synthesiser manufacturers.

Drums

Chris Craig interview

Bruce Hepton trips the light fantastic with The Orb's visuals, man

Peter Gunn

Jim Betteridge plays 'Hunt the Aled Jones sample.'

Then After A Few Years I Think I'll Be A Producer

making a career of knob twiddling

1989 PC Show Report

Over 100,000 people attended this year's show; Paul Ireson reveals what you missed music-wise if you stayed at home.

...while Kendall Wrightson tackles the Mac...

Mike Drane informs us of his clandestine bedroom activities!

Paul Nash relates the saga of Holly Community Centre Studio.

We heard this funny story on the way to the studio/ rehearsal/gig/mortuary. Here it is.

Interacting with the future

A guide to Interactivity

Computer music at Goldsmith's College

In the first part of a major new series, Jim Grant attempts the impossible by trying to explain the workings of the Fairlight CMI in terms that mere mortal musicians can understand. In-depth simply isn't the word...

Jill Purce concludes discussions with the new music man.

Readers' replies to the second half of our survey, analysed by David Ellis.

Film Score Writer

James Betteridge goes to Hollywood, or thereabouts, to find out all about sound and vision