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  1. When MIDI first hit the streets I was still discovering I loved music with a Casio VL-Tone my dad bought me for Christmas. By the time I was ready to move up to something rather more capable I started to buy magazines and become aware of what was out there (at least, professional stuff that wasn't in stores in the high-street), it was 1985, the DX7 was out, digital drum machines like the TR707 were quite the thing, and sequencers were still stand alone boxes - but within a couple of years would be losing significant ground to software. First pieces of MIDI gear were a Casio CZ-101, followed by an Alesis MMT8 and Kawai R50 drum machine, and a MIDI->CV convertor for my Moog Prodigy... What an incredible lifespan MIDI has had, compared to the other computer/digital interfaces over the same time period..!
  2. Future have actually been really nice, as they own Music Maker Publishing (which is E&MM, MT, H&SR, The Mix etc) and they didn't object to us archiving the old issues. FM and CM though are ongoing commercial concerns, which is why they are off the cards at the moment (not to mention, it's only one guy doing all this, and if I added everything possible, I'd likely die before finishing it - or it would finish me off first! 😝)
  3. Thanks for the shout out Jim. I did try to contact Craig in regards to Polyphony and the early follow-on issues of Electronic Musician as it would great to also have his blessing as he was so involved in much of this stuff, but in general if I don't hear back from folks I don't like to bug them. Obviously some of his articles are featured in mags like Sound On Sound, and it's great to be able to archive them and make them accessible, rather than being lost... Of course, the main aim of the site is for UK mags, but we do consider other, non-UK related publications of special archive value if the opportunity presents itself - hence building a complete Polyphony archive with the permissions of Paia last year, and hopefully a full Synapse archive with the blessings of Doug Lynner this year. Of course, the real big one is Keyboard, it really needs an archive, and I had hoped someone else would have organised one by now, given the outcry when Keyboard ended. It's on our radar, and if we can get permissions, then hopefully we can sort something out, and we are already looking out and picking up copies where we can - obviously being UK-based there are some logistical challenges in shipping mags around, and we don't really have the funds to buy/ship issues from the states. (If anyone can help, please let us know!) Anyway, I think at some point this year I'll probably reach out to the former Keyboard folks and see whether they would be open to us building an archive, and making more concrete plans if we're able to do so...
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