Subj : Music 500/0
To   : Nelgin
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Oct 20 2017 12:44:26

  Re: Music 500/0
  By: Nelgin to All on Thu Oct 19 2017 09:53 pm

 Ne> I'm not sure how popular the Music 500 or Music 5000 add-ons to the BBS
 Ne> Micro were back in the UK but I remember that it's how I got introduced to
 Ne> electronic and syntheized music. I was about 15 at the time and hearing
 Ne> this stuff for the first time blew my mind. That's how I was introduced to
 Ne> Jean Michel Jarre and New Order (my parents didn't listen to music so I
 Ne> never really heard much of it).

 Ne> I found an emulator called Beech which has built in M500/0 emulation and a
 Ne> bunch of image disks with ample music files. I still remember listening to
 Ne> some of them for the first time. I'm probably going to end up putting the
 Ne> files up for download on my BBS when I get a chance. I'm sure there'll
 Ne> always be a BBC Micro retro schene since a lot of us grew up on them at
 Ne> school and in our homes. It'd be nice to keep it alive.

Interesting to hear your story.
I got into synthesized music when I was young, since my dad had a synthesizer
as long as I can remember (as well as a guitar or two).  I remember playing
around on his keyboard with a Roland MT-32 MIDI synthesizer for a while, and he
also had a PC with a MIDI card and some MIDI sequencing software for recording
MIDI music.  I seem to remember Roland also making a PC audio expansion card
with MT-32 emulation at some point.

Nightfox

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