Kevin Doyle
This issue should reach you before the end of March, putting
us back on track after the delayed issue 003.
As the issues go by, we are gradually getting better at
turning the contributions into a new issue and returning it to you quickly. As
Jackie explains in her article on the Data Protection Act, we rely on computerised
records to keep a track of the 80+ members and the scores of contributions to
date.
I would like to make a plea to all members to read the notes
on 'Making a contribution' which are included in this section in every issue.
We do change these as we discover better ways of using the contributions and a few
simple checks made before any contributions are sent can save us many hours
during the preparation of the next disc.
One plea in particular is to those contributors of music who
have included comments about the music in accompanying text files. We encourage
such comments, not just for our own information, but for that of the other members
who are to receive a copy of the music - but we face the task of transcribing
them into AMPLE format to include within the music program. So, please keep
sending the comments, but put them in the program.
In this issue we have another interesting collection of original
AMPLE music as well as a promotional track from the disc 'Inside Stories' by
Peter Chase (reviewed in AMPLINEX 003) supplied by Hybrid Technology.
We have the first in a series of AMPLE guides to 'music
theory in action' from Roger Cawkwell and a collection of instruments to try in
your own music.
We have a feature on using the AMX mouse with the Studio
5000, another on saving memory in AMPLE programs and a comprehensive index to
the first 3 issues of AMPLINEX.
Prompted by the comments in the 'Update' section of the
previous issue, we have an interesting collection of comments about AMPLE and the
music it produces. We also have the largest ever 'Questions and Answers'
section - 40% bigger than in issue 003 (which itself was over double the size
of issue 002). Happily, there are about as many answers as questions.
We have a review of the new waveform design software which
has just been released and an index to the AMPLE Nucleus Programmer Guide
(reviewed in AMPLINEX 003).
We also have a couple of utility programs to monitor the
activity on the AMPLE number stack - an excellent way to understand and use
this feature of the AMPLE system.
Thank you for your excellent response to date – it’s a
pleasure to have to worry about whether or not each issue's contents are going
to fit on to one side of an 80-track disc!
I look forward to your contributions to AMPLINEX 005.
Published in AMPLINEX 004, March 1988
