Welcome to AMPLINEX 005

In the previous issue we anticipated having a review of the latest addition to the Hybrid Music System - the Music 2000 MIDI interface. In fact we have been able to go one better by providing two views of the new hardware and software to help you decide whether MIDI should be your next step.

This issue also sees the first use of our agreement with MCPS (the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society) which allows us to publish music which is not the members' own work.

We have several features and utilities designed to aid music composition including one which explains the 'Chord-finder slide rule', a copy of which accompanies this disc.

For those without the luxury of a Music 4000 keyboard, there is a utility which provides a simple music keyboard and produces automatic AMPLE notation from the key presses.

We have a mammoth section of 'Questions and Answers' (with, as usual, more questions than answers) and would like your help to redress the balance in the next issue.

Readers of the June issue of Acorn User will be aware of the article on the Hybrid Music System by Ian Waugh. For those who are not, his article concludes:

"AMPLINEX... hopes to stimulate the interest of AMPLE users enough to make them contribute... (and)... so far the response has been huge... I cannot recommend AMPLINEX highly enough: I think it is simply essential reading."

This is praise indeed for the many contributors to AMPLINEX so far - so give yourselves a pat on the back.

I hope that you will continue this excellent response to make AMPLINEX 006 (completing our first year of publication) even better than the rest.

Kevin Doyle