There are many excellent music packages for the Amiga, and if you want to use the Amiga as a sequencing device, then the best has to be Music X from Microillusions. However, as it seems you have no actual understanding of music or indeed any musical appreciation, you’d be better off leaving the Amiga out of it and just plink away on your keyboard. As for recording success, I think you’ve got the wrong magazine. Stay with what? • SOFTWARE PRIZES. Win £50 of software and a gimmick if you write the best letter of the month. This month's plaything is ninety-six pages of Stereo Star Maps from Collins publishers. The 3D maps show' how the constellations don't in fact exist. O Artists CU's major demos competition la well under way, and now It's time to meet the judges. Each one la an expert In hla own respective tleld and each has considerable experience In the tleld of producing art and animation on the Amiga. There will be other judges too. The Editor and Mark Lewis, Electronic Arts' Managing Director will both be having their say but In the meantime, we profile the artists Involved and ask each one which of their contemporaries In computing or elsewhere they most admire. MHOS 00MP0 ROBERT PEPPEREL (JUDGE, SENIOR CLASS) PROFESSION: Amiga artist with video company Hardwire.