As film music becomes a more popular means for composers to earn a living, Tim Goodyer talks to soundtrack expert Steve Parsons about his work on the new British film, 'Empire State'.

Currently enjoying the success of U2's 'The Joshua Tree' album, this French-Canadian producer talks to Paul Tingen about his hand in this, Peter Gabriel's 'So' and other projects.

Part 5. The adventure continues - the master of MIDI manipulations, Martin Russ, does the time warp!

Complete MIDI set-up for the small band.

Pioneer of the sampling revolution, Tim Simenon, is back with a new album, a new studio and a refreshing update on what technology has to offer music. Tim Goodyer charts Unknown Territory.

Despite his Barclay James Harvest and Jim Diamond connections, we let Chas De Whalley speak to Pip Williams. We should have known better.

Chas de Whalley meets legendary Folk Rock svengali, Joe Boyd

The Mix (1)

Part 15. David Mellor looks at how to create the perfect mix.

As PWL's in-house mixer, Pete Hammond can claim to have had a hand in even more chart singles than Stock, Aitken & Waterman. David Bradwell finds out what makes a hit record.

Pickups, headsets, guitars...

Ex-Police drummer and self-styled 'tech-head' Stewart Copeland discusses the merits of owning four Fairlight CMIs, why he's in a group called Animal Logic, and how to write an opera. Logical questions: Nicholas Rowland.

Paul White discusses the more advanced aspects of compression, and includes a table of useful settings.

The Beautiful People: If 60s Were 90s...

The scope of MIDI control has expanded beyond that of simply allowing one synthesiser to control another. Chris Meyer explains how you can now shape a whole mix using the five-pin DIN plug.

funk and hi-tech facilities

Hendrix rises again - thanks to two musicians, a helpful bureaucrat, and a rack-full of Akais

Bryan Ferry

You know all those classic sixties and seventies songs you keep hearing on TV ads these days? Well, almost every one you hear is not in fact the original recording but a completely new version. To give you an idea of how such reconstructions are produced, Nigel Beaham-Powell of Streets Ahead Music Productions recounts how he went about reproducing a Bryan Ferry track.

The First Single

and sensible use of mixing time

Chas de Whalley chats to Chris Neil

In the third part of this series on the growing uses of multiple MIDI channelisation, Paul Wiffen looks at the advantage of using separate audio outputs on the Akai S900.

Fretless Bass Playing

Colin Hodgkinson wide-eyed and fretless.

Jon Tiven talks to Gus Dudgeon about Elton, Bowie and recording in general.

Flattening the earth, contextualising the computer.

The man who took the credit for production on Pink Floyd's superlative 'Dark Side Of The Moon' album has since had ten years of album success with his own creation: The Alan Parsons Project. Richard Elen managed to track him down to London's Mayfair Studios, to discuss the appliance of music technology in his recordings.

'What are this spring's colours?' asks ultra-fashionable Richard Walmsley