The month - this month

If you can't imagine how Steve Hillage, Derrick May and The Orb would sound making music together, you can buy their forthcoming LP and find out. Simon Trask talks to the man behind the guitar and the project.

N.A.M.M. Winter Market at Anaheim

A special guitar report from the N.A.M.M. show

ART Multi-fx Processor

As even the most modest MIDI studio becomes a powerful tool for the creation and recording of music, sound processing becomes a more essential part of it. Tim Goodyer checks out ART's latest multi-fx processor.

interacting with the future

Your passport to future worlds

Building E&MM's MIDI interface for the Beeb? Jay Chapman's got some further information you should know.

The recent development of the MIDI standard is designed to enable you to transfer your sequences from one sequencer to another. Anthony Widoff files a report.

mutiny makes good

Where everything clicks

If it doesn’t work, it’s in the help file

National Music Day

Part 2: Mike Lethby prepares for National Music Day.

Where everything clicks

Your questions answered

One band's mission to save rock and roll - with technology. On the spot: Phil Ward

Technology & Education

Are you looking for an engineering career in the audio industry? Perhaps a musical technology course at the London College of Furniture might set you on the right path. Course tutor Tim Orr explains why...

News from America compiled by Simon Braund

Hip-hop beats, anarchic industrial noise and the odd jazz lick are the hallmarks of The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy’s debut album Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury. Kean Wong drops in on San Francisco’s uncompromising renegades and discovers which are the sharpest tools at the cutting edge of rap

Frankfurt Review

Hot news on hot products.

Drums get beaten, synths tinkled and demos hammered in the encapsulated everything section this month

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Ben Duncan delves even further into the wires that connect it all together.

update on THE guitar synth

RETROSPECT: miles davis

what can a 63-year-old jazz trumpeter teach you about playing? rather a lot, actually

Being a new section mainly for interesting and musical people of medium height: a little short for a feature but far too sturdy for a news item. Today, Weather Report refugee Alphonso Johnson and an instrument to gawp at and the curious Gruppo Sportivo (Q: Are we not Italian? A: We are Dutch).

Keyboards, Guitars, Amps – What's New, Who's Who!