Jean Michel Jarre explains his current views on music, synthesisers and synthesis in an in-depth interview.

Offering 256 tracks, direct screen manipulation of events, and the facility to alter any type of data whilst your sequence keeps playing, RealTime looks set to make a big name for itself very quickly. Martin Russ took a real shine to it - will you?

Studio Focus

how the world's only remaining non-MIDI keyboard was developed

Instant rock guitar without all the hassle of amps and microphones.

C-Lab's outstanding Notator and Creator sequencers have now been updated to version 3.0. Dave Lockwood checks out the new features.

MIDI is often perceived as being incredibly complicated, but learning to use it can be quite painless.

Don Goldstein talks to American composer Harold Budd about his past collaborations with such luminaries as Brian Eno and Michael Nyman and, more recently, the Cocteau Twins.

When is Left Right?

Sinister Tony Reed takes the side of the left-handed musician

Guitar

Fred Dellar presents a potted history of the people who bring you the 'product' - the record companies.

How To Get The Most From Your Sampler

Paul Overaa and Jez Ford browse through some of the latest literature of interest to Hi-tech musos

Third instalment: bending gets weirder.

Phil Brammer goes Euro with a look at the Recording scene in Amsterdam with some surprising results

This month, Phil Spector

Demos

Making the Most of Studio Time

the joys and pitfalls of having a festive hit: the stars tell all

Composer Profiles

SMPTE/EBU Synchroniser

David Mellor reviews this SMPTE/EBU timecode unit dedicated to C-Lab's Creator and Notator sequencing and scorewriting software for the Atari.

The science of the drum machine.

The whole music industry sliced into Twiglets

The Professional's Keyboard?

Korg's follow-up to the successful M1 takes them further upmarket. David Mellor looks at an instrument for those willing to pay a little extra for the professional touch.