Vintage technology strikes back

Inside the vintage vault

Clarke, Radcliffe & Marlow

If you're a frustrated synth programmer looking for an outlet to use your talents, you could become a soundtrack writer for computer games. Matthew Vosburgh meets one of Britain's best.

Rhythm Composer

Beat crazy. As yet another drum machine arrives on the market, Nicholas Rowland wonders if it's time to get away from the present format.

It's the biggest! It's the best! It's the 1986 British Music Fair! Our man on the inside, Tony Mills tracks down the hottest gear of the year

AES Convention 1988

Los Angeles' recent AES convention pointed the way ahead for recording technology. Bob O'Donnell takes a trip to the fair and finds the rides to his liking.

On studio, stage work, and future solo projects

special preview of the all-important Olympia equipment show-your best chance to see the latest in instrument technology

Music composition for films and Helden

A Bad Job

This month we take a look at salvage techniques. What to do when you have to re-mix someone else's less than ideal master tape.

Talking about improvisation and The Moody Blues

An unbelievable digital reverb at an even more unbelievable price.

building your own recording haven

An exclusive interview with this most popular French electronic music composer that traces his background history from his early influences to his latest epic performances in China.

MIDI is regularly used to perform tasks as varied as switching notes on and off, storing patch libraries and controlling mixes, but can it control sound itself? Vic Lennard looks at the uses of MIDI noise gates.

"...comes back from Hammersmith."

What we saw at the big fair, including famous gear and famous people.

From Schoolhouse To Multitrack

Free of Culture Club, guitarist Roy Hay declares his infatuation with soul music and forms a new band. Tim Goodyer listens to his tales of "programming madness".

New Orleans

A special report from the New Orleans trade show

In the wake of the successful TR707, Roland have produced a well-nigh identical machine, loaded with percussive gems of a less predictable nature. Dan Goldstein puts the TR727 through its paces, shortly before emigrating to South America.

Wilf Smarties gives a new batch of CDs a spin.

UMI-2B

Sequencing interface for the BBC

Not a household name perhaps, but this man is behind quite a lot of musical projects that you will no doubt recognise - as Janet Angus explains.