Amiga A500 as an electronic music synthesizer

[diverdocc]

Hi!
I'm new to this forum, and joined up because I discovered the amiga a500.  This unit was at a garage sale with the 1034 monitor all for $30, and came with a ton of books for it.  Also it had Workbench 1.3 and the basic disk. Just 2 floppies.  The thing works fine for what I can tell. As far as I can tell, it's all stock with no modification.

Anyway, after reading up on what the amiga a500 can do, like the chip functionality, it appears that it can be a progammable sythesizer with 4 note polyphony. I wish to program the thing to do some sound generating of anykind that would be interesting or useful for experimental music production.  

The problem is that I have no software other than basic, and I'm ok with programming but know nothing of C+ or anything of that sort.  AND I have no hard disk, or the know how to link a windoze xp PC to an amiga, though I have reasearched that, it comes to a solution of hacking pinouts and terminal software.  (a bit advanced for me, but instructions would be very useful)  

If anyone could point me to some useful info or tell me what the possibilites are for sythesis on the a500 I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Clinton

[diverdocc]

Thank you everyone very much for the information.  

Now that is left is the connect the two computers and I should be for once using the a500 for something.  

I would like to know if I could program it myself, and invent a synthesizer using the keyboard as the the note triggers and buttons for effects.  Use the mouse to draw a waveform on the screen and the amiga play it.  That would be kinda novel now that there are other equipment / synths that input audio as modelable waveforms.  I think the amiga has lots to offer in this idea realm.

If anyone can show me other cool stuff for the a500, i'd be most grateful. Thanx,
Clint

[diverdocc]

Hello everyone, thanx for your help and guidance on my task of "attempting to use the a500", that is stock and unmodified.

The music I make is different. Experimental, ambient and kinda psychedelic.  I use that myspace as a convienent way to get a few pieces of content out.
http://www.myspace.com/doctorcm  is the URL.

Another site to check out my music is this thing called The Rub.  Check out www.hereinliestherub.com

Thanks for your help.  ENJOY!