Reader Profile

Having written to us suggesting we extend our magazine coverage to include readers' own set-ups and experiences, Bruce Graham suddenly found himself the subject of such a feature. Read on and find out why...

Trends in Speakers and Amplifiers

The Alternative MIDI Controllers Session

Pete Shelley talks about XL-1

Programmable 8-voice Synthesizer

Copyrighting your songs by Lorna Read (who nicked the idea)

All the stuff the Sun leaves out!

Concluding our guide on how to release your own record

Industry Profile

The first of a series of new style kit projects that enable musicians to build and customise effects units with the minimum of technical difficulty.

Sequencer

Latest in their line of cost-effective gear is Cheetah's MQ8 sequencer. Simon Trask investigates a budget sequencer that incorporates some of the features of the Zyklus MIDI Performance System.

Martin Russ takes his monthly look at the world of ST music...

Castleridge Studios

H&SR takes a look at its first Australian studio. The locals couldn't give a Castleridgexxx for anything else.

Turn your ZX Spectrum into an echo machine with sound sampling capabilities using this month's unique project

Worth its weight in microphones and Gaffa tape.

Turning digital dreams into reality

Ian Boddy is one of this country's foremost independent 'electronic music' composers. David Hughes talks to him about the recording of his new CD 'Odyssey'.

ITs guide to the British Music Fair.

preview for the Commodore

'When I Think Of You' by Janet Jackson

One good means of learning your way around the equipment you own is to use it to recreate somebody else's music. That's exactly what Mike Collins did last year whilst working at Yamaha's Research & Development Studio in London. Using nothing but Yamaha gear, he set about reproducing a Janet Jackson hit in full, by himself. Here, he recalls what was involved.

Ripping Yarns from Perth popsters

Computer music and electro-acoustic education in London.