Black on white Staff editor
Philip Wells
I use a small control sequence word to display the Staff
editor notes as black on a white background - which to me looks more realistic.
"bw" [19 #OUT 7 #OUT
4 FOR(0 #OUT)FOR
19 #OUT 0 #OUT 7 #OUT
3 FOR(0 #OUT)FOR
]
4 FOR(0 #OUT)FOR
19 #OUT 0 #OUT 7 #OUT
3 FOR(0 #OUT)FOR
]
Separating notes
Michael Lefevre
In the 'info' of Tim Barrett's 'Voluntary in D minor'
(AMPLINEX 013), he asks if there is a simple way of separating notes. The
answer is the Len instruction. This can be used with a negative number to shorten
all the notes by a set length or with a positive number to make all the notes the
same length.
So, to make all the notes crochet length you would use '48
Len' and to shorten all the notes by a semi-demi-quaver you would use '-6 Len'.
The instruction is on page 126 of the Music 5000 User Guide. It should not be
confused with LEN (in capitals) which is for returning the length of a string.
Separating notes
Patrick Black
One way of separating repeated notes when using organ voices
(Tim Barrett, "Voluntary in D minor", AMPLINEX 013) is to add ON
PHSET to the instrument definition. From experience it's a great deal easier
than all those rests!
In this issue's Instruments section are some which I used in
the Bach Fantasia on 'In dulci jubilo'. As well as separated notes, I was
trying to get some variation in the organ voices, as you would by setting stops
on the real thing. In the main it works, I think, but you need to use 32' with
care - it's a bit crude on its own and works best with some of the others on
top of it.
Making the ZROM manual
F Chaplin
When you have printed the ZROM manual (AMPLINEX U11) and
separated the pages, don't remove the tractor-feed holes from the left side of
the loose leaves. Instead, square up the sheets, align the holes and simply
thread them with wool or string or whatever you fancy, tie up the ends and
there you have it - a real together manual!
Try it, it's bound to work!
More music in 'Ice Breaker'
Michael Lefevre
There is a rather interesting extra in 'The Ice Breaker' by
Ian Guinan, on the Music City (1) disc. The music is in part words with no
letter (i.e. part1 rather than part1a) but the PLAY instruction uses parts with
letters. So, if you play the parts without letters by typing
"123456"PLAY mix1
you get another piece of music altogether!
Avoiding Staff editor memory limits
David Hall
Anyone who, like me, uses the Staff editor to enter notes
may be faced with that dreaded '! Too big' message. Do not despair. What I do
is to save what I have (as say 'tune#1') and then NEW the system. I then enter
the rest of the tune as normal.
I then use the WRITE command to create a text file of the
AMPLE words I have entered in this second program:
*SPOOL tune#2
WRITE
*SPOOL
WRITE
*SPOOL
I then load my original program 'tune#1' and read in the words
from the text file of the second program:
*EXEC tune#2
I this way I can program very long pieces whilst still using
the Staff editor.
Published in AMPLINEX 014, November
1989
