With so many musicians using computers, what is the role of computer networking? Does it have anything to offer the musician, and if so, why isn't it more commonplace?

Keeping Music Live

Is there a future for live electronic music ?

Drumcheck

An abundance of features and digital sounds. Bob Henrit gets down to some serious TOMfoolery

Everything you ever wanted to know about the MIDI standard but were afraid to ask - Paul Overaa explains all

12-Bah Humbug - A Christmas Blues

In Synthesizer Modules

Sound Station Sampler

Inexpensive sampling for PC owners

The British Music Fair

...while Annabel Scott listens to words of wisdom from a Transatlantic keyboardist of a very different kind - Saga's Jim Gilmour.

MIDI Time Code Controller

With sequencing and tape recording becoming equally important to many musicians, any means of integrating the two is likely to be a welcome development. Vic Lennard looks at a unit that allows Fostex' R8 to be operated from within Steinberg's Cubase.

Chris Smith continues his series on synchronisation

SequencerCheck

Wodger's latest offering takes the Paul Fishman test

The CX5M music computer could change the face of the home micro-music market. We examine the first dedicated music computer to reach the UK

Music Percussion Computer

In-depth scrutiny

Thinking of changing drum machines, adding a new synth to your MIDI setup, or buying a new sequencer? Paul Andreas Overaa outlines some sensible tips to help you remove the need to edit your sequences every time you change your equipment.

Whatever happened to MTC?

'Whatever happened to MIDI Timecode?' asks Chris Smith of XRI Systems.

Software for the Apple Macintosh

Few software houses have been in the music business as long as Passport, yet only now have they designed a package for the sophisticated Apple Macintosh. Jim Burgess checks it out.

Once a recording studio was a large room lined with futuristic acoustic tiles and filled with impressive equipment; now it could be the corner of a bedroom - it's all a matter of size.

The missing sync?

MIDI Disk Recorder

Meanwhile, Elka have called their CR99 a MIDI Disk Recorder rather than a MIDI sequencer. Vic Lennard goes on record with a MIDI sequencer with a few surprises up its sleeve.

The mysteries of SysEx are revealed. Martin Russ discovers that there may be more to that disk drive in your latest acquisition than you thought...

Atari ST Software

It's powerful, it's intuitive and it's cheap - just about everything an ideal Atari sequencing package should be. Ian Waugh reviews.