Vintage technology strikes back

...including The A-Z of Analogue

low-priced FM, mega important

Sample sultan Wilf Smarties reports on the latest sample CDs.

The E&MM Buyers' Guide For Beginners

So you've saved your pennies and want to join the world of synthesisers, but don't know where to start looking? E&MM's buyers' guide shows you how.

The Producers

André Jacquemin stars in "The Python and the Redwood Stage", introducing Doris Day as Fred Dellar, and a supporting cast including Dame Edna Everage and the Leyton Buzzards. Whipcrackaway, whipcrackaway!

The Atari ST may currently be the most popular music computer, but a lot of music software is still being pioneered on the Apple Mac. Mike Collins visited MacWorld '89 for the latest musical developments.

Organ/synth poly combo

...while Kendall Wrightson tackles the Mac...

Programming Clinic

Most of the current generation of digital synthesizers use a blend of sampling and synthesis techniques to produce their sounds — a powerful combination, but perhaps less easily understood than analogue synthesis. Synth guru Craig Anderton offers some hints and tips on how to get the best out of 'S+S' instruments.

Creative Recycling For Sequencer Users

16-Bit Stereo Sampler

Akai's S1000 is without doubt the industry standard professional sampler, so why try and improve on the best? Paul Wiffen finds that SMPTE cue listing, AES/EBU real-time output, and built-in effects are a good start (with hard disk recording to follow).

One of the first and principal exponents of computer music interviewed.

Studios & Recording

Electronic Musical Keyboard

From their initial sampled success with 'E=mc2' Big Audio Dynamite have gone on to further explore the use of dialogue and sound effects in pop music. David Bradwell talks technology and photography with keyboardsman Dan Donovan.

Uncle Tom gives studio advice, from a Portastudio to a great big 24-track.

Getting into DJing

How to mix records, what gear to buy, and how to get work

The life story of the original sampling keyboard — the Mellotron.

Check out that rarest of products - a new synthesiser

Hi-Fi Supplement

Cult masters of industrial funk talk hi-tech sounds, performance CDs and popular commerciality to Nicholas Rowland; the code of the '80s.

Robert Calvert on Songwriting tips.

Reader Peter Forrest relates his delightful tales of woe.

First Steps In Multi-timbrality

Boss Dr Rhythms

Two new Doctors, but will they make you feel good?