Brian O' Shaughnessy advises on recording acoustic guitar

Detailed notes on the design and construction of a complete synthesiser voice card you can build yourself, by the team that put it all together in the first place.

Tascam Porta One

A sensational budget portastudio from Tascam, the Porta One, looks like being on most musicians' Most Wanted list. We bring it back alive.

The first of two versatile electronic percussion modules

Roland P55 Piano Module

Close your eyes and you could be tickling those ivories...

Clive Grace writes a few notes on this sequencer for the Amiga and the Mac

Simmons SDS7 and SDS8

In a special report, Ultravox drummer Warren Cann takes a look at two new electronic drum-kits from Simmons - the people who started it all. One is a straight forward 'Simmons-sound-on-a-budget' model, the other a sophisticated modular system employing both analogue and digital sound-generation, as well as versatile user-programmability.

Vintage technology strikes back

including The A-Z of Analogue

Test on the Best?

New products from the music business

Gerry Taylor

More news from cyberspace

So far, so BAD?

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

Rhythm Sound And Artist Cards

Martin Russ looks at how Yamaha have drummed up card support for their successful RY30 drum machine, with new cards containing the sounds and rhythms of big name drummers.

The latest activities at one of the UK's lesser-known electro-acoustic music studios, put into perspective by its mentor, Phil Ellis.

Chas de Whalley interviews Richard Burgess

It's the most oft-quoted specification of them all, yet frequency response is also one of the most confusing aspects of music machine performance. Paul White reveals the facts behind the figures.

Equipment: ANALOGUE TIME PROCESSOR

A unique breath controller that works with any electronic instrument

Chris Huggett, the man behind OSCar speaks