Welcome to AMPLINEX 017

In this issue, in addition to a larger than usual Questions and Answers section and our regular Hints and Tips, we have two utilities: a demonstration program to help in the creation of drum patterns and a new version of Allan Gardner's jukebox program which offers a number of useful features for linking music files together to form an automated musical sequence. We have a feature on gaining access to new AMPLE functions and reviews of two new music discs.

We have sixteen pieces of AMPLE music, some original, some which may be familiar, including a couple which have dual-purpose settings to suit both the Music 5000 synthesiser and Music 3000 expander unit.

We hope you enjoy the disc and we look forward to receiving your contributions to AMPLINEX 018.

Editor's note: we are running rather behind schedule with this issue because of my commitments to the course I am taking. These last few months have been particularly heavy, with only very short gaps between periods of course work.

Things will still be behind schedule for the next two issues (but less so than this one, I hope), with things getting back to normal at the end of the year.

Thanks for your patience and your tolerance of this erratic timetable.

Kevin Doyle and Roy Follett