KeyboardCheck

Roland introduce the SAS and Jim Betteridge finds it makes a piano easier to yomp with.

Integrated synths?

In the first instalment of a two-part article, UK synthesist Ian Boddy gives budding EM performers the confidence and advice you need to take your show on the road.

Dave Simmons, the man behind the name on the hexagonal pad, holds forth on the past, present and future of electronic percussion. Paul White listens.

Logical priorities

Hot percussion news

Five From America

A clutch of books for the beginning or serious recordist.

Computer music at Goldsmith's College

More news from cyberspace

No Synths Please, We're Busy

Digital Drum Module

We preview the most sophisticated electronic percussion system yet devised. It's incredibly versatile, but it doesn't come cheap, as Paul Wiffen reveals.

... Don't stop! The beat on the street has never been so neat. Rappers in the charts, dancing on the streets — and our man Nick Smash with the way it all began

Pianos: expansion & tuition

Digital Equipment Protector

How to avoid being struck by lightning! A simple, but ingenious Digital Equipment Protector, costing under £1.

Can computers improve or even replace current styles of notation?

Ian Boddy concludes his look at how to take electronic music on the road by examining his own live set-up and how it's put to use in a concert situation.

Ron Berry

Put six PCM drum sounds in a small black box, add a velocity-sensitive pad and a sprinkling of controls, and you have some pretty neat add-on percussion modules. Dan Goldstein hits and listens.

Wind Controllers

Unveiled at NAMM and stars of the BMF, these two new instruments receive their exclusive preview in MT. Tim Goodyer takes a deep breath before taking a closer look.

Upcoming electronic music products and events.

A prolific American synthesist interviewed

Robert Moog, the man who set the synth ball rolling in the first place, on the receiving end of questions from German journalist Henning Lohner.