Question: Using a hard disc

Are any members of AMPLINEX using a hard disc with their Music 5000/4000 setups?

Are there any problems with daisy-chaining other peripherals on the 1MHz bus through-port on the Music 5000?

D J Barton

Question: Music 3000/5000 files

I would like to know how to make a Music 5000/3000 file. I have just taken ownership of the Music 3000 unit and of course would like to continue to send AMPLINEX copies of my music. I do not as yet know how to make the music suitable for the Music 5000 as well as the Music 3000.

I noticed that Michael Lefevre used some sort of method, when he wrote 'Do It' (AMPLINEX 020 Music section). It said '3000 version playing' when I had the Music 3000 up and running, and 'Music 5000 version playing' when I had not.

Don Buckley

Answer: Key signatures

In reply to Chris Hanby's query on the K(...)K command (AMPLINEX 023), where a construction such as

K(+F)K =F

does not give the intended result, the problem is accepted as an (unfortunate) feature of AMPLE and the answer is to re-position the key signature after that first note.

Since the problem of was dealt with as long ago as AMPLINEX 002, I claim no originality for the above comment.

Alan Minns

Question: The AMPLE Recorder

Not much has been written about the Recorder facility in AMPLE. Does anybody use it?

I can't identify exactly when, but I find that once a piece is about half complete the Recorder starts to falter, refusing to play even 1 or 2 of the existing parts as backing to the new one I'm trying to create. Normally, I set the quantum value to 16.

Is this comment typical, or have any AMPLINEX members found ways and means to make it work better?

J Wrigley