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).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....
Music software in the year 1985
- KVRAF
- 11093 posts since 16 Mar, 2003 from Porto - Portugal
Fernando (FMR)
- KVRAF
- 4645 posts since 1 Aug, 2005 from Warszawa, Poland
- KVRian
- 513 posts since 22 Sep, 2015
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
Sorry, video isn't in English.. but you get the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFbD0FJ69jc
- KVRAF
- 11093 posts since 16 Mar, 2003 from Porto - Portugal
Interesting. Which year was this?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
Fernando (FMR)
- KVRian
- 513 posts since 22 Sep, 2015
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
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
- KVRAF
- 4645 posts since 1 Aug, 2005 from Warszawa, Poland
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpecDrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLfYT6yXgEc
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- KVRist
- 164 posts since 22 Apr, 2004
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.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.
Since the CX5M is mentioned in the article, it must be the year that I got one to replace my Spectrum.
- KVRAF
- 11093 posts since 16 Mar, 2003 from Porto - Portugal
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?)dogzilla wrote: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.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.
Since the CX5M is mentioned in the article, it must be the year that I got one to replace my Spectrum.
Fernando (FMR)
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
According to wikipedia Atari ST was launched in June 1985.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?)
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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- KVRAF
- 4751 posts since 22 Nov, 2012
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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- KVRist
- 164 posts since 22 Apr, 2004
The Atari ST was certainly around. There's an ad for the 520ST on page 15 of the magazine.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?)
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...
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Yeah, but not the market the magazine was aimed at, which is what dogzilla was saying.fmr wrote:Maybe not the Macintosh (here in Europe), but the Atari ST was certainly already in the marketdogzilla wrote: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.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.
Since the CX5M is mentioned in the article, it must be the year that I got one to replace my Spectrum.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand