Roland VP330

Roland's VP330 Vocoder Plus not only helped to put vocoders on the map, but has since become a classic keyboard in its own right. Gordon Reid says "synths that make you go Hmmm".

Jim Betteridge witnesses the advent of the Screaming Blue Messiahs at the Town and Country Club

First unveiled at the Frankfurt Musik Messe, the White Shadow range is one of the cheapest 'quality' guitar lines currently available. Tim Oakes examines the fretless bass variant.

Part 8 - GEM to Groove Electronics.

TechTalk: Steven Randall

The man behind the Stepp DG1 guitar talks about his invention, the playing techniques required for it, and his views on what MIDI offers the guitarist, in conversation with Neville Marten.

for Ensoniq EPS16+/ASR10

Metro Sound Studiosamples sound disks for the Ensoniq EPS16+ and ASR10

Who is Uli Jon Roth? How can you learn to read bass music? What does Chas de Whalley look like?

The quest to build the ideal MIDI guitar controller continues with Yamaha's eagerly-awaited G10. Aaron Hallas makes the pick-up.

A review of PA Decoder's D50 ROM Vol II joins patches for the Ensoniq ESQ1, Kawai K1 and Korg DW6000 in this months' selection of readers' sounds.

For the Korg 01W

Casio discover MIDI

Duran Duran, Alan Stivell

Start of a new series in which readers are invited to submit 'extended letters' on an electronic music topic that's of interest to them.

What about a six'n'twelve-string on it? Dave Blake considers Shergold's rights and wrongs.

Find out everything you need to know about life on and around the average guitar neck

Those strangely shaped metal and plastic things that you clamp to the guitar neck to change key, you know? You do now

Cheap Gear

Doing it well does not necessarily mean doing it expensively, as we endeavour freely to demonstrate

Casio CT6000

Casio's CT6000. A first foray into the pro market.