AMPLE in the press
Jim Redfarn
In the Hints and Tips section of AMPLINEX 009, there was a
request to send in details of any published articles about AMPLE and/or the
Hybrid Music System. I submit two that may have not been picked up. Both were written
by Ian Waugh.
The first was published in February of last year in the
Keyboard Player. It is entitled 'The Micro and Music' and is an excellent
morale-boosting description of the Hybrid Music System.
The second was published in the BEEBUG magazine for April
1990. It is called 'Music Programming in AMPLE' and is the first of a series of
articles, to be published in succeeding months. As always with articles by Ian
Waugh, it is clearly written, with lots of useful ideas.
The use of the Slide command
Alan Minns
I believe that previous discussions of the Slide command
rather missed the essential points of the facility.
1) An =L value before the ON Slide fixes the dynamic level
which is sustained throughout the slide (and after).
2) An =L value after the ON Slide fixes the pitch offset for
the start of the slide.
3) If no pitch offset is defined, the existing value of
dynamic level is used, which by default means that the slide starts at a tenth
interval above the starting note!
Problems with the FX1A module
Richard Bettis
For a while now I've been noticing odd quirks in my system
when I play some of the AMPLINEX tunes. Recent examples are 'In The Night' from
AMPLINEX 014 and 'The Last Patrol' from AMPLINEX 015. Both of these crashed
with a 'Too many voices' error before starting to play (see Questions and
Answers in AMPLINEX 016). By chance I was using my original Music 5000 system
disc and decided to sort out one of these pieces - and it ran perfectly!
I traced the problem to different versions of the FX1A
module, which contains the PLAY word. Using MCAT, I found that my normal system
had version 1.0 and the original had version 0.6. I replaced the newer version
on my !BOOT disk, and have had no problems since.
I thought the purpose of updates was usually to REMOVE bugs?
Published in AMPLINEX 017, May 1990
