Your chance to find out what new goodies will be appearing in your local music store over the coming months.

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

A Matrix 6 in a rack-mounting box. Simon Trask investigates the multi-timbral delights of Oberheim's latest offspring.

If you are used to paying £200 plus for good quality MIDI software for your Atari ST then you are going to be awfully surprised at how good Microdeal's sequencing package is for only £49.95. Ian Waugh was! Read his review...

Additions To Traditions

Tony Mills rips the lid off the latest in the land of the electrode; updates for Yamaha's CX5M, Greengate's DS:3, and the ever-popular Speccy.

Printing the Part

David Ellis concludes his survey of music-transcribing devices. Among the products featured this month are units from Fairlight, New England Digital, Con Brio and Xerox.

Beyond the BMF

Beyond the British Music Fair

Another digital reverb from Alesis, a waveform digitizing pad for the Roland S50 sampler, Passport's multitrack software for the Atari ST, exclusive news of the world's first ever 8-track recorder to use standard cassettes, and more...

Ian Waugh makes a global search of the UK MIDI software scene and presents this roundup of what is available and from whom.

Micro Peripheral

Dave Oppenheim of Opcode

Mike Collins chats to Dave Oppenheim, founder of and main programmer for Opcode Systems, the creators of Vision sequencer, the original MIDI File Format, and a range of primarily Macintosh music software and hardware.

A review of 'Keyboards', a software package for the BBC Model B.

Scorewriting packages are becoming more and more popular Clive Grace looks at Dr T's top of the range offering

For the Atari ST

Having made your decision to opt for a software-based MIDI music system, which computer do you choose? Which is best? Are they all the same? Mark Badger considers the three prime contenders.

Soundmaking software

The hard facts

Key Expander/SMPTE Synchroniser

Integration is the name of the game with Steinberg's Midex - a single unit combining a software key expander and a SMPTE synchroniser for the Atari ST. Nigel Lord even likes the colour.

A 2-page Paracetamol for your technical headaches.

Two ways to control video images using the existing musical interface.

Music Village

Music Village, Chadwell Heath.

The original Emulator brought sound-sampling out of the labs and onto the stage. The new model looks likely to repeat that success, and to transform sound sampling from precision recording into something like art.

An exclusive preview of the sequencing package that sets out to show the market leaders a thing or two

News

News of the latest activities on the musicians’ electronic mail network.

CM MX816 Console Automation

A cost-effective VCA mix automation system that can be used with any console.