The Sand Dance

by Bernie Dawson

Composed by: Traditional

Arranged by Jill Townsend

M5000 version recorded

M5000 only version played

It seems to me there are lots of ways to have MIDI and Music 5000 in one file. This is one way I've thought of.

If you have the Music 2000 MIDI interface, remove the '%' signs from 'mix9', 'm', and 'vol', and reMAKE the words.

The MIDI version was done for a Roland D10, and will sound the same on a D20 or D110. The choice of sounds needs altering and that's up to you!

Players 1 2 3 4 are for the Music 5000.
Players 5 6 7 8 are for MIDI.

Since the same notes need to go to player 5's voices as well as player 1's I have the MIDI parts just refer to the Music 5000 ones. For example,

"part5a" [part1a]

This seemed a memory-efficient way of doubling up to produce this file.

Memory is also saved in parts b and c where the key changes are achieved by transposing part a (e.g. '2@ part1a' and '4@ part1a') rather than by entering all the notes.

When using the Music 5000 and MIDI together, do not use the Mixing Desk as well. You are near the limit of the Beeb's processing power and it hiccups towards the end.

Bernie Dawson
 

Source: AMPLINEX 022 disk, file $.SAND


Published in AMPLINEX 022, July 1991