Jez Ford raps his bits round this excellent budget price sound expander from Yamaha

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Roland RSS System

Three-D sound placement from two speakers - that's the secret of Roland's revolutionary Sound Space system. Vic Lennard looks at the technology and the theory.

Readers' replies to the second half of our survey, analysed by David Ellis.

...while Kendall Wrightson tackles the Mac...

Electronic Piano

Thought you'd seen the last of the electronic piano? Simon Trask rolls up his sleeves and finds out there's life in the old dog yet.

Rockfield has a long and colourful history stretching back to the era of hippies and free festivals. Paul White finds out what goes on there now.

UK Fresh '86

Simon Trask leaves all that MIDI jargon behind to check out Britain's first major live hip hop event. How are the DJs and the rappers making technology tick?

E&MM talks to EMI's new young electronic duo

One day, all PA columns will be like this... Jim Betteridge checks out Simple Minds' little bash at the Milton Keynes Bowl

A look at some of the spring reverb units currently in circulation.

AccessoryCheck

Dave Burrluck has a look at some square black things

Mick Jagger at IM party? True! Fame, fortune and the low-down on what goes down.

And A Happy Birthday To Us

Come to our party, have some jelly, read some of our best bits, and wish us a happy first birthday, hip hip...

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IBM PC Software

The gap between audio and video technologies closes - a recent crossover is software that allows you to generate fractal images from your music. Ian Waugh's PC gets psychedelia.

Where everything clicks

Your questions answered

Rhythm Controller

Etcetera

Instruments and Equipment

Split as they are (these pages) into Studios and Recording, Instruments and Equipment, and Etcetera (for news pieces with no homes to go to).

In the fourth part of the series, Ben Duncan deals with interference and possible remedies for it.