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

CZ Voice Editor for Commodore 64/128

With Casio's CZ synths showing no sign of losing popularity, Ian Waugh looks at an editing package that uses a Commodore 64 to help make Phase Distortion accessible.

David Ellis and the sad tale of an Italian computer music add-on that bears more than a passing resemblance to established designs from the States.

Martin Russ dons his lab coat and deerstalker to investigate some of the unwanted features of MIDI.

Atari ST Software

With software synth editors challenging the instruments' own front panels for attention, Quinsoft have brought the popular Alesis Quadraverb an editor of its own. Ian Waugh looks in on the Quaddy.

Andy Honeybone has a tape dump. But we forgive him.

Auto-Accompaniment — With Style

Martin Russ gets inside version 4.1 of Band-In-A-Box — now with user styles!

Grab a PC of the action

Roland JS-30

Desktop sampler

The Bit In The Middle

Time Machine Revisited

An add-on for last month's Time Machine project that allows direct synchronisation of the Yamaha RX15 and MC202.

With the arrival of Microsoft's Multimedia Windows, the much-derided PC could become a musician-friendly computer. Adrian Sutton gets a clearer view.

Software writer Jay Chapman introduces us to DX7ED, a patch editing program for Yamaha's FM poly, the BBC B, and E&MM's own BeeBMIDI interface.

No hype, no waffle - just tomorrow's products today

Your guide to tomorrow’s new toys

The Graphic Sequencer

PC music software still has to come some way to catch up with that for the Atari and Mac, but good, graphic, sequencer programs like Cadenza are a big step in the right direction. Peter Cudmore takes a closer look.

Everything you never wanted to know

computer music system

It's a complete computer system with speakers, it gives you GM tones, Cubase Lite sequencing and much more besides, and it's very friendly.

Bokse US-8 Universal Syncronizer

The Bokse US-8 Universal Syncronizer: Ian Gilby takes control.

CMC 24 Mixer

On the cheapest computer-assisted mixer yet, the AHB CMC 24. We take a look.

for Wasp Synthesiser and Commodore 64

Jethro Hill and some software that allows EDP's Wasp synthesiser to be sequenced from a Commodore 64: amazingly, no additional hardware is required to interface the two...

Music On The PC

Panicos Georghiades and Gabriel Jacobs explain how, with the aid of plug-in sound and MIDI interface cards, you can transform that most unmusical of computers, the PC.

MIDI Synchroniser

And on a less spectacular scale, Korg introduce a synchroniser that won't break the bank, though it'll still crack a lot of problems, as Trish McGrath finds out.

Roland Juno 60, Roland SH-101, Korg Trident II