Live Music For The Hi-Tech Musician

Mick Jones' new outfit clash with Jim Betteridge

To help you get into the festive mood, we asked a few artists and producers, and a handful of our regular contributors, what they'd like for christmas this year... In a hi-tech music kind of way. Paul Tingen collected the wish-lists.

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

Jonathan Sorrell is one of a handful of session programmers working with the world's most sophisticated sampling keyboard - the Synclavier. Paul Gilby discovers how it came about.

The Story of the Guitar Synth

Learn the history of the guitar synthesiser and what the stars think of them.

Leonard Chess

Studio sage and onion Leonard Chess on the turntable.

Brian Eno

What's Hot - Not What's Not!

Steinberg Recycle!

Sample groove editor for Mac

The concluding episode, and Paul White explains how the processing secrets already revealed can be applied to make a complete mix. No more staring at the faders in despair...

Will the new-look ABC find success as easy as 1-2-3? Or will their latest Lexicon of Love lose something in the translation? Philip Bashe finds out.

Continuing his practical guide to proven pieces of studio and music equipment, David Mellor looks this month and next at the world's two most popular stereo master recorders.

...while Paul Gallotta discovers how bass got its top end from the Yes man

A successful composer of minimal music or would-be writer of pop instrumentals? Tim Goodyer isn't sure so he challenges the man himself for the answers.

Yamaha CS80

Once infamous as a roadie's nightmare, the CS80 has settled in synth history as an instrument of almost unmatched character. Peter Forrest rediscovers the pain and the pleasure.

Klaus Schulze & Rainer Bloss, Tim Souster

Digital Sequencing Software

THE COMMODORE AMIGA

You hear so much about (and from) the Atari ST that it's tempting to believe it's the only computer used for making music. Michael Brooke takes a look at a powerful alternative - Commodore's Amiga.

John "Jellybean" Benitez is the leader of the current trend of DJs turned recording artists. Tim Goodyer talks to him about the relationship between the dancefloor and the recording studio.

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Software for the IBM PC

System Design Associates' Promidi Studio System is a powerful sequencing package for IBM and compatible computers that records straight to disk. Ian Waugh checks it out.

Playing Keys With Shakespear's Sister

Studio Equipment — Part Three

8-track saga continues. This month we check out Accessit effects