·          How to choose a sound card, speakers, or a CD-ROM drive to go with your PC.
·          How to instal this music hardware in your PC.
·          Software drivers for this hardware and how to instal and operate them.
·          Extra memory for your sound card - what, why, how?
·          How to play your favourite music while you use the PC for work.
·          Hooking up your audio gear - amplifiers, microphones, radio and TV tuners and so on.
·          Cataloging your tape, record, or CD collection on your PC.
·          Playing anything straight out of your music catalogue.
·          Sampling, digital and analogue recording of music and live sounds on hard disk.
·          Music resources on the Internet.
·          Sequencing software.
·          Software to teach composing and arranging.
·          Software to compose and arrange music automatically.
·          Systems of musical notation - classical, sequencer and MIDI.
·          What is MIDI, and why do I need it?
·          Musical instruments - new, old and bizarre - their characteristics and their capabilities.
·          Using your PC as an aid in learning to play a musical instrument.
·          My son is learning the piano - which MIDI keyboard should I buy?
·          Singing and the tonic sol-fa.
·          Making a new song - chorus and verse, bridge and hook
·          Guitar bends, slides and licks.
·          Printing your music for publication.
·          Printing instrumental parts for band members.
·          Physical acoustics and psychoacoustics - what we hear and how we hear it.
·          Theory and practice of harmony - why does that sound so good?
·          Tuning and temperament - how and why scales are built.
·          My friend the Mixolydian mode.
·          Reference books on music.
·          The Percy Grainger Museum.
·          Companding - hearing your music better as you grow older.
·          Editing and transforming sound samples.
·          Bet you can't imitate that bird!
·          Metre, rhythm and prosody.
·          Music for dancing.
·          The recipe for Mum's Apple Polka - choreographic notation.
·          A catchy tune - what makes a good melody?
 
The Music SIG’s regular programme is:
1    Introduce new members        
      then question & answer              7:30 - 8:15pm
2    Coffee and chat                          8:20 - 8:45pm
3    Demonstrations                          8:50 - 9:30pm
WHAT WE DO