Music 500

The Acorn Music 500 was a sound and music synthesiser peripheral for the BBC Micro.

Characteristics

• Seven position stereo output
• Up to sixteen notes played at once
• Thirteen programmable preset waveforms
• Thirteen programmable envelopes
• Special effects, including ring modulation, frequency modulation
• Pitch variation
• Individual volume control over each instrument

A five-pin DIN socket on the rear connected the Music 500 to an amplifier

The device was programmed using a dedicated music language called AMPLE, which could be loaded into the BBC Micro from disk or tape.