Sequencercheck

Casio get further into the pro market, Chris Jenkins gets into their newie

Yet more of Jez comment as he gets his vocal chords round Digigram/Farfisa's latest MIDI gadget

An exclusive preview of Sequential's first-ever digital synth: Paul Wiffen reckons it's been worth the wait.

Handmade headless fingered

Acoustics

Upcoming electronic music products and events.

Bass Guitars

Paul Freeman gets composing with this notation package for the Amstrad

DrumCheck

Yet more MIDI manipulation, as Bob Henrit explores this trigger to MIDI converter

Another crop of readers' own synth sounds. This month's featured instruments: the original DX7, the Casio CZ, the Ensoniq ESQ1 and the venerable Korg MS20 monosynth.

BUYING & USING: percussion

how to choose percussion instruments, and how to use them once you’ve got them home

The System

Tony Duhig of Jade Warrior - his home system, including the Roland guitar synth and the Emulator.

All the stuff the Sun leaves out!

Paul Ireson takes a look at a new kind of direct-to-disk recorder, which stores MIDI rather than audio data. Could it be the ideal live sequencer, he wonders?

Geoff Mitcham's account of how he set up his own mobile recording studio.

Pat Metheny and the well-tempered Synclavier

Beyond the BMF

Beyond the British Music Fair

The British Music Fair

What's new in the shops and what we saw at the fair.

Yamaha's new MIDI datafiler currently enjoys the honour of being the cheapest of its kind on the market. Ian Waugh gets on with the filing.

Put two Lexicon 224Xs in one box, add a sprinkling of new features, and you have the reverb-based effects unit to beat them all. Paul Wiffen has the advance details.