A new concept in performance control for keyboard players demonstrated by Dave Bristow.

8-Voice Polyphonic Digital Synthesiser with 8-Track Digital Sequencer

More dispatches from the music wars

funk and hi-tech facilities

News, gossip, funny pictures, ink.

The man fronting this month's top ranking and cover-appearing rhythm section is Peter Tosh. The ex-Wailer parts with some heavy words on Jamaica in this interview with Dave Saunders.

Ever wondered what goes on in a commercial 16-track studio once the red light comes on? Roger Jackson of West Coast Music reveals all...

electrocution for beginners

Dave Stewart gives the technology the human touch.

Chris Maillard goes West to meet the upbeat hoedowners

Severed Heads mainman Tom Ellard in conversation with Dan Goldstein - no one in the modern music industry is safe.

The how of the Banshees, transcribed by Richard Walmsley

Roland Mother System

Roland's innovative MIDI set-up; Mother Keyboard, Planet-P piano voice module, Planet-S synth module, and the impressive Super Jupiter... an in-depth test.

Pinning Down Blancmange. Chris Jenkins attempts the implausible and gets his just dessert

808 Statement

The jolly lads (and lass) currently blowing up a Gaelic gale with their drinking man's Folk have Adrian Deevoy reeling

Mick McKenna

Engineer Mick McKenna provides an insight into recording with the Rolling Stones Mobile.

Ian Gilby reviews a truly ingenious programmable patchbay that takes all the hard workout of MIDI equipment routing in the studio - the Sycologic M16 MIDI Matrix.

How to get the very best from what you do in the privacy of your own home

From the first all-electronic record label to the first ARS Electronica concert, Hubert Bognermayr has been one of electronic music's pioneers. David Bradwell makes the Austrian connection.