What's hot, what's not, and all that rot

advanced multi-effects processor

Programmable audio effects for the studio or the stage

Looks like Fender without Leo is a bit like the Four Seasons without Frankie Vivaldi (anagram - 14 letters).

keyboard kudos

One of the consequences of MIDI recording is the loss of musical performance. In the first of a short series, Ollie Crooke and Simon Thomas look at the performance applications of MIDI controllers.

This month's question: sounds or notes? Perhaps it's time for keyboard players to rediscover emotion in playing music instead of providing an intricate background for those musicians who never forgot it.

Which nutty boy is a home recording fanatic?

Fancy turning your Prophet 2000 into a 128-voice sampler? Paul Wiffen shows you can use MIDI Mode 4 to give the impression you're doing just that.

Cue up to clue up

Your First Guitar

problems to watch for on cheap and secondhand electrics

Guitarcheck

Do we really need more Strat copies? Dave Burrluck ponders the question

Guitar-to-MIDI Converter

Paul White, who's owned almost every Roland guitar synth built, puts the new GK1 synth driver and GM70 "brain" under test. Is this the first pitch-to-MIDI system that really works?

Who do these music press writers think they are? A big joke, that's what we make of it.

Bass Guitar and how to record it.