Wow! Has it been a year already? We've covered a lot of things this year in Polyphony, but it seems like we've only scratched the surface. Electronic music is growing so fast — not only in technology, but in popularity, application, and "hands-on" experience by the consumer. In trying to keep up with all this (and trying to keep you informed about it), you will notice a major change in this issue of Polyphony. Namely, a larger physical format. After that last issue, we realized that we couldn't get too much bigger before we wouldn't be able to print or staple the thing. So we hope the larger format will allow us to get more info to you in the most economical way possible.

Subscription renewals will be sent to you on an individual basis whenever you are due for renewal. Note that like everything else our price has gone up this year. I think that everyone will agree that last year you got a lot of information for our $2 subscription fee. In fact, our prices for this year would even be a bargain for last years issues, but remember that we are expanding, and I think you will find your new subscription well worth it.

We've had a lot of people urging us to go to bi-monthly or monthly publication. Well, thanks for the compliment, but we have to run PAIA too, you know. If we didn't, we wouldn't have any new products or research to tell you about in Polyphony. (Isn't life a vicious circle?) If you do want us to publish more often, let me make a STRONG suggestion. Polyphony was originally conceived as an intercommunication media for you. We want you to share with us what you are doing with patches, recording, modifications, designs. In turn, we will share your ideas with others. Now, don't get me wrong. We aren't trying to get you guys to do all the work. We at PAIA will continue to write as many articles as we currently do; but if you send us more information, we can get an issue together faster and print 'em up more often. See? Out of our 2000 plus subscribers, we have a couple of dozen that send us information on a regular basis. Additionally, there were about a hundred or so that wrote us once, or maybe twice during the last year. Now, I know that there are more electromaniacs out there than that!! But despite all this raving, we may be able to sneak out an extra issue this year. (Assuming we can get back on schedule. Keep your fingers crossed). What I have in mind is possibly an issue to "empty our files" of small tidbits you've sent us. These would be things I was saving in hopes of working into a larger article, or comments that didn't seem to fit in with what we were trying to accomplish at the time, and so on. Perhaps we can just type them all up, print them and get them out to you so you could see if there was anything you might be able to use. What do you think? Would you be interested in one of these "free for all" issues?

I mentioned earlier about getting back on schedule. What can I say except "Sorry about the delays". I mean that. Prior to the last issue, our printing and production department was down while we were moving it to a larger more efficient location. Now, with this issue we are working on the changes to a larger format. Hopefully, we can go full steam on pumping out the issues for 1977. So bear with us.

Thank you all for your support in 1976, I hope to see you all again this year.