A fly on the wall account of a mega-group amidst a mega-tour. Michael Smolen does the buzzing

Crying And Shouting With Bath's Finest

Messrs Smith and Orzabal explain how it can take a year to make two singles but only two months to make an album, among other things. Bits in between the chat by Dan Goldstein.

NOMIS

Chris Maillard co-stars in The NOMIS Complex. In all major West End cinemas now

The Alternative MIDI Controllers Session

An extended review of new products including many of those unveiled at February's Frankfurt Music Fair.

Bit One

The stunning Bit One Poly - Keyboard split and layer, with separate memory access, and the kind of facilities you would expect to find on a machine costing three or four times as much... our reviewer is seduced...

Steve Jolliffe — bodily contact

His successful production of U2 has brought musical sage Brian Eno back into the public eye. John Diliberto finds out what's become of his oblique strategies and how he approaches the latest technology.

The turn of sequencers, software packages and computer music systems to receive attention from E&MM’s unique price guide.

Mark Jenkins' system

return of the solo

Synthesizer Module

League leader and Moroder man talks tech to Tony Mills

By a babbling Brook

Where would Madonna, Giorgio Moroder or Stock, Aitken and Waterman be without sequenced bass lines? Rudi Cazeaux provides some guidelines and practical examples to help you create better bass lines.

Master of sampling and synths dissembles

Roland's top of the range sampler is the last of those announced at Frankfurt to reach the marketplace, but its 16-note polyphony, 512K memory, and built-in visual editing software could well give it an edge over existing £2000 samplers. Paul Wiffen takes up the case.

Founder member of Depeche Mode and Yazoo, Vince Clarke is joined here by Eric Radcliffe, his partner in a new band, The Assembly, air their views on writing and recording in the 1980's.

Mark Jenkins auditions the latest 16-bit stereo digital reverb with Performance MIDI.

The latest reports from the trade and prophet spheres

Jay Chapman sets the scene for a regular series written to help you better understand the practicalities of life with the Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

Gary Hopkins lends an ear to the Caledonian Crooner

Martin Russ reflects on a cult phenomenon: Kawai’s K5 additive synthesizer.

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop's network of Macintosh computers handles everything from music programming to looking after the tape library. Richard Elen talks to Brian Hodgson, the head of the Workshop, about their musical Macintoshes.