The Plot Thickens

More Pics on the beat monitored by Tony Mills

The Syn-D-Kit

Do you turn pale at the thought of forking out for a Simmons SDS9? Do you go green with envy when friends show off brand-new Ultimate Percussion kits? Paul White's design for a build-your-unswer electronic drum hit could bring a bit of colour to your cheeks.

What a difference a show makes - or further thoughts on the British Music Fair '86.

ISLAND LOGIC CBM64 SOFTWARE

The Music System - now for the Commodore 64.

With the British Music Fair upon us the musical equipment manufacturers are proving there's nothing like the hi-tech end of the music market for innovation - and no-one like MT to pass Comment on it.

The editor strikes back with a creation all his own.

A step by step guide to constructing, testing and fault finding your own curry.

An inexpensive, easy to construct accessory for the home studio.

Chris Jenkins again, with a new program that lets Commodore owners look inside the Yamaha-licensed FM sound chip. A DX7 for sixpence?

Fun and Frolics

Part three, and the introduction of a double-triggering circuit that enables more than one sample to be triggered without the user having to buy multiple EPROMs.

Tucked away in one corner of the Frankfurt Music Fair was an astonishing sound-sampling device with origins in Eastern Europe. Paul White and Dan Goldstein have managed to get their hands on the first model to appear in the West.

An appraisal of this popular, easy-to-build Analogue Reverb kit - a possible alternative to the spring-based devices?

Start of a new series in which readers are invited to submit 'extended letters' on an electronic music topic that's of interest to them.

Back To The Future

The future of the synthesiser: experimenter's toy or street-cred home organ?

You thought multi-timbral MIDI was only for synthesisers and samplers? You thought wrong, as Paul Wiffen proves with his analysis of Mode 4 on the Yamaha SPX90 effects processor.

Paul White concludes our keyboard mixer project, with full constructional and wiring details.

Full circuit design for this very high quality, low-noise preamplifier.

Vintage technology strikes back

Inside the vintage vault