A sound-sampling keyboard for £1800, and new software from Octave-Plateau, among other things.

...in New Orleans, Paul Wiffen takes time out to visit the NAMM show, and returns bearing news of the Series III Fairlight, the Emulator SP12 and the OSC Advanced Sound Generator, and more.

Everything you never wanted to know

now from Japan

Paul Ireson on this year's International Music Show.

Gasp at the very latest instruments to hit the street plus sneak previews of tomorrow's guitars in Tony Bacon's deadline report from the Frankfurt trade fair.

Tucked away in one corner of the Frankfurt Music Fair was an astonishing sound-sampling device with origins in Eastern Europe. Paul White and Dan Goldstein have managed to get their hands on the first model to appear in the West.

First unveiled at the Frankfurt Musik Messe, the White Shadow range is one of the cheapest 'quality' guitar lines currently available. Tim Oakes examines the fretless bass variant.

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Jim Betteridge gets broody over the baby of the DX range

IT Cat eats month - shock horror probe etc.

The whole music industry sliced into Twiglets

Akai S612 MIDI Sampler

Akai's first sampler - with its own 'Quick Disk' facility.

A sneak preview of what you can expect to see at this year’s British Music Fair - the first to open its doors to the public for years.

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