It works!!!!   The prototype MIDI Input Interface (M5KMIDI) for the Music 5000 system bursts into life playing an excerpt from Mozart's Piano Sonata No.1  

The interface is connected and powered by the User Port on the BBC Micro and emulates a standard Music 4000 keyboard controller including the sustain pedal from a midi source.

This just may be the first time a Music 5000 synthesizer has been played via midi as the system never offered a midi input facility!...

Several of the Hideaway M5KMIDI interfaces were built for Music 5000 owners but I'm sadly now out of pcb stock.

Music 5000 (Acorn BBC Micro): Prototype MIDI Input Interface Test..

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net