Guitar

Meanwhile the Grandaddy of Rock and Roll gives his version of how it all began to Richard Walmsley

Steim Studio

Europe's most forward-looking centre for music technology development is alive and well and flourishing in Holland. Ron Briefel pays it a visit, and comes away suitably impressed.

Pete Shelley talks about XL-1

Chas de Whalley encounters his old pal Huey Lewis to discuss the merits of self-production

If you've the tenacity to take on and beat the (ex-)GLC, then putting together an upmarket 24-track studio is a piece of cake! Tony Hastings visited this South London studio to glean the details of how it came to be and what it offers.

With DAT poised to make the leap from the professional recording studio to the high street, David Mellor looks at the benefits of the format to home recording.

Despite popular demand we present the second part of our epic annual science fiction series.

the joys and pitfalls of having a festive hit: the stars tell all

From the dawn of time and the twang of strings comes the tremolo arm. We reveal its courageous story.

MIDI-controlled Sampling Delay

Korg’s latest digital delay looks like any other - but it offers comprehensive MIDI-controlled sound-sampling facilities. Tim Goodyer checks it out.

Chris Jenkins and Simon Trask examine the musical implications of Commodore’s 16-bit monster computer. Will it be simply a haven for the gamesters and the accountants, or will it find a place on the shelves of music shops?

Erasure head man Vince Clarke and his new band face the horror of a Tony Reed interview

Flushed with the chart success of Close (To The Edit), the 'faceless' trio return with more talk of Art, Empire and Industry. Paul Gilby pushed the record button and monitored the noise levels...

SMPTE/EBU Synchroniser

David Mellor reviews this SMPTE/EBU timecode unit dedicated to C-Lab's Creator and Notator sequencing and scorewriting software for the Atari.

Books '84

instruments and playing in print

Zenon Schoepe gets to grips with this 16-channel MIDI controllable gate/mute processor.

More recording legends: Norman Petty tapes Buddy Holly.

Following last month's list of synthesis casualties, David Ellis delves deeper into the archives and finds yet more mysterious products of human ingenuity. Some of them are quite spectacular.

Keyboards

SI in association with Dave Crombie Productions Inc present The Moog Story, starring Robert A Moog...

Producer extraordinaire gets interactive

What goes on behind the hallowed portals of Bush House and the BBC's radio training department? Read this and find out...

the Yamaha story

A rare interview with the noted composer and lecturer in the month of his 50th birthday.