Tony Reed plans out his shopping list for the coming year

Friday On My Mind

Electronic Drum Kit

No Synths Please, We're Busy

Silica CD-ROMs

A selection of PC CD-ROM drives

A computer-based digital music synthesiser

We examine Roland's MPU 401 Intelligent Interface that took over two years to develop, to discover whether this disc-based sequencing system was worth waiting for.

MT's problem page

Hybrid Arts budget package that thinks big as John Renwick discovers

Of Mice And Micros

Tony Mills, micros which start with the letter 'A', and a lot of software

Still suffering from a dearth of software, the powerful Acorn Archimedes computer has yet to gain acceptance in music circles - will this sequencer help it on its way? Ian Waugh checks it out.

Steinberg Pro16 MIDI Sequencer

Tony Hastings takes you through the recording of a song using the facilities of the Pro 16 MIDI Sequencer software from Steinberg Research.

The short circuit to the latest news on the Computer Musician scene.

Why limit use of your computer to sequencing and librarian functions? Roly Pickering explains what bulletin boards are, how you get onto them and what they can do for you.

In the final part of a look into the world of additive synthesis, Chris Meyer explains the different approaches to additive synthesis adopted by various manufacturers and which synths have employed them.

The latest developments from the land of the floppy. Tony Mills reports

Martin Russ has fun turning his Atari computer into a multi-function sampler, drum machine and digital effects unit with the aid of Microdeal's low-cost Replay 4.

Miro DC1

Go gabba with a video grabber

Roland's top of the range sampler is the last of those announced at Frankfurt to reach the marketplace, but its 16-note polyphony, 512K memory, and built-in visual editing software could well give it an edge over existing £2000 samplers. Paul Wiffen takes up the case.

Some Spectrum software for our music control micro-peripheral project, published in E&MM June '83. Explanations by the project's designer, Jim Grant.