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A new Super-synth, Samples, and more

A focus on this computer-based band, their home studio and newly-developed sound sampling device that is changing the way they record.

ADD-ON KEYBOARDS

Tony Mills weighs up the pros and cons of augmenting your home micro with an add-on keyboard

By Dave Gregory, XTC.

The Alternative MIDI Controllers Session

Annabel Scott talks to one of the synth world's younger composers about a new album of raunchier, dynamic music, the result of his first sessions in Jive Electro's equipment-laden studio, Battery.

Tony Mills thinks Neuronium's curious blend of electronics, guitar-strumming, and psychedelic art could be just the thing to break the musical jelly mould in 1985. See if you agree.

The cheap alternative?

Oceanic interviewed

Merseyside's pop trio on presets, jingles, Nirvana and 2 Unlimited

Introducing MT's unique encyclopedia of analogue synthesisers: part 1, Akai to ARP

The Alternative MIDI Controllers Session

We explain why MIDI isn't just for keyboard players...

Keyboard player to Rainbow, Black Sabbath and now Ozzy Osbourne, Don talks to Tim Oakes about his keyboards, how to Bark At The Moon, and life on the road with a werewolf...

THE STORY OF AN INDEPENDENT RECORD

The story of how one of this country's lesser-known synthesists took the bold step of forming his own record label to independently release his fourth album 'Phoenix'. Paul Gilby documents the process.

Space Cadet

Electronic music is one area where independent status is the general rule. Ian Boddy is one of the UK's foremost electronic musicians, with a label he set up especially for his own releases. David Hughes gets the full story.

Living Dangerously with 'Doors'

A look behind closed Doors.

Bronski Beat reveal all in The Garden, as their new album, Age of Consent, storms the charts.

Don't touch those Level and Pan controls - you may be able to solve your mixing problems more easily than you think. Robert Rich explains how the timbre of a sound affects its performance in the mix.

Studio pursuits with the violin

This month: Farfisa to Fuller.

Programmable 8-voice Synthesizer

Paradise Studios

Synth players in search of Heaven need look no further than West London, where a recording studio puts the emphasis firmly on hi-tech musical equipment, but doesn't charge people the Earth to use it. Simon Trusk pays Paradise a visit.

Steve Howell puts sex, murder and intrigue to one side to make way for a study of modulation in its many and various forms.