Music software in the year 1985

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Stokely wrote:Ah ok, thanks! :) Yes I liked Vision a lot.

A bit later, I remember doing things in...Sound Designer was it? The two-track audio editor for macs....anything that involved a whole track you might as well go have lunch (we had a IIci and later a quadra) :) "Hey, let's normalize!" "Ok, start it off and let's head to the mall for a while..."

I don't miss that, at all....
Sound Designer was the first audio editor for the Mac, if I'm not mistaken. Then came out Alchemy, which blowed SD out . Then Digidesign answered with Sound Designer II and Sound Tools (in 1987).
Fernando (FMR)

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In 1985 I was at 1-bit level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xvAohDVZuY

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I had this little black box which plugged into my ZX spectrum 48k, Ram the music box or something? It had a 2 channel sequencer (1 drums and 2 note poly midi/sampler). I had it connected to a little Casio CZ synth and done some crazy shit with a whole 1.1 seconds of 8 bit sampling time (I remade Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi with it, ha!) It also worked as a digital delay unit.

Sorry, video isn't in English.. but you get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFbD0FJ69jc

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wickfut wrote:I had this little black box which plugged into my ZX spectrum 48k, Ram the music box or something? It had a 2 channel sequencer (1 drums and 2 note poly midi/sampler). I had it connected to a little Casio CZ synth and done some crazy shit with a whole 1.1 seconds of 8 bit sampling time (I remade Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi with it, ha!) It also worked as a digital delay unit.

Sorry, video isn't in English.. but you get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFbD0FJ69jc
Interesting. Which year was this?
Fernando (FMR)

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1985-1986 I remember getting JMJ Rondezvous and sampling the laser harp from it along with the "thwak" clap drums from concert in china album. If I remember right, the box cost £49.

I also had a text to speech - Currah mico-speech box which made the computer become a Cylon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Y0tW2HcB0

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Some of Spectrum emulators do emulate Currah, like ZX Spin.

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There were several nice cartridge add-ons for the Spectrum, like SpecDrum that was marketed by Cheetah (they later became Novation), released in '84

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpecDrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLfYT6yXgEc

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fmr wrote:Really bad article. Clearly, those guys were miles ahead of what software and machines were around (already). No mention to the Macintosh - first big flaw.
To be fair, Computer and Video Games was a UK magazine and, at the the time of the article, the "big three" home computers were the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and BBC Model B. Neither the Apple or IBM PC were particularly affordable or relevant to the readership of the magazine.

Since the CX5M is mentioned in the article, it must be the year that I got one to replace my Spectrum.

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dogzilla wrote:
fmr wrote:Really bad article. Clearly, those guys were miles ahead of what software and machines were around (already). No mention to the Macintosh - first big flaw.
To be fair, Computer and Video Games was a UK magazine and, at the the time of the article, the "big three" home computers were the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and BBC Model B. Neither the Apple or IBM PC were particularly affordable or relevant to the readership of the magazine.

Since the CX5M is mentioned in the article, it must be the year that I got one to replace my Spectrum.
Maybe not the Macintosh (here in Europe), but the Atari ST was certainly already in the market, and strongly supported (or was it different in UK?)
Fernando (FMR)

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fmr wrote:Maybe not the Macintosh (here in Europe), but the Atari ST was certainly already in the market, and strongly supported (or was it different in UK?)
According to wikipedia Atari ST was launched in June 1985.

Due to longer printing time back in the day, I think it is likely that that particular article was written before that date.

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I think I still have a 1984 macintosh sitting in the closet upstairs but all I ever used it for was games, documents, and the occasional drawing. All the guys making music i knew or met were atari guys. When we brought them in for parties and such they had specifics about things like colored or non colored screens.

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fmr wrote:Maybe not the Macintosh (here in Europe), but the Atari ST was certainly already in the market, and strongly supported (or was it different in UK?)
The Atari ST was certainly around. There's an ad for the 520ST on page 15 of the magazine.

But at £749, it was considered expensive for a home computer. I think it was another two years before it suddenly took a massive price drop here (around £300 IIRC) and my parents could buy me one to replace the CX5M.

Of course, then I needed something to plug into the MIDI ports... :hihi:

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fmr wrote:
dogzilla wrote:
fmr wrote:Really bad article. Clearly, those guys were miles ahead of what software and machines were around (already). No mention to the Macintosh - first big flaw.
To be fair, Computer and Video Games was a UK magazine and, at the the time of the article, the "big three" home computers were the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and BBC Model B. Neither the Apple or IBM PC were particularly affordable or relevant to the readership of the magazine.

Since the CX5M is mentioned in the article, it must be the year that I got one to replace my Spectrum.
Maybe not the Macintosh (here in Europe), but the Atari ST was certainly already in the market
Yeah, but not the market the magazine was aimed at, which is what dogzilla was saying.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand

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