Those little snippets that make the musician's life worth living

The start of a regular monthly column devoted to readers' hints and tips about their instruments, equipment, software, recording and playing techniques.

Ian Gilby visits The Garden Studio and learns how John Foxx composed and recorded tracks from his recently released album 'In Mysterious Ways'.

Once you've got your sequencer up and running you're gonna need some extra sound sources. Paul Wiffen guides us through the MIDI Expander jungle

The second part of our constructional article on building a MIDI interface for the BBC Model B home computer. There's a complete parts list and some more software to get your board up and running once you've built it.

AN ALBUM PRODUCED ENTIRELY ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER

Part 1. American, Paul D. Lehrman, documents how he recently recorded an album of synthesized Irish music entirely on an Apple Macintosh computer using the Southworth Music Systems 'Total Music' software.

How To Save £54,800

Tony Mills makes a meal of the most interesting musical microprocessing around.

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Radiophonically speaking

Pete Gleadall runs up a transatlantic phone bill waiting for hip-hop whizzkid Mantronik to finish his hamburger and explain why the TR808 is still his favourite drum machine.

Simon Croft interviews the versatile Gerry Kitchingham whose track record includes work with A-Ha.

Synthcheck

Fingers on the joystick. Tony Mills at the controls

THE STORY OF AN INDEPENDENT RECORD

The story of how one of this country's lesser-known synthesists took the bold step of forming his own record label to independently release his fourth album 'Phoenix'. Paul Gilby documents the process.

The price guide to beat all price guides continues with a rundown of available sequencers, software packages and computer music systems.

Patrick Wilson

A commercial outlook and a complex setup. We invade Patrick Wilson's home studio

Upcoming electronic music products and events.

Jay Chapman goes through the rest of the functions our own DX editing program, DX7ED, is capable of executing.

Tony Mills discusses sounds and concepts with the Frenchman who made instrumental synthesizer music respectable

Clarke, Radcliffe & Marlow

Mark Jenkins reports on this recent addition to the popular CZ range of polysynths and suggests that the Phase Distortion synthesis it employs could well be the answer for those of you caught in the 'analogue versus digital' dilemma.

On this month's RE: MIX mixed-mode CD...

What’s on this month’s CD and CD-ROM

Readers' replies to the second half of our survey, analysed by David Ellis.

As Mr Fingers and Fingers Inc, Chicago-based Larry Heard was instrumental in creating the house music movement. Simon Trask talks tech with him on the release of his first LP on a major label.

Ricky Gordon fires questions at hot Cole

Where everything clicks

Your questions answered

Want to add multi-mode filtering, additive synthesis, three extra envelopes, microtonal and fixed frequency tunings, and eight independent effects units to your Ensoniq ESQ1 or SQ80, without invalidating your warranty? Greg Truckell reveals how...