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#172479 - 05/02/05 06:31 PM
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Actually, back in the 80's and early 90's, there was quite a bit of it going on. Much if not most of it was being done on the Atari platform.
Cubase was born there, and if I remember correctly, so was Band in A Box. There were lots of other very cool apps too, some of which are long gone. Many of these apps were very simple, yet, even today, for just running midi based programs, or programming midi synths and editing patches, these old apps are still quite relevant.
Why today do they seem to be so complex ? My guess is the it's because of the multitude of technological advances, and the fact that many users want to be able to customize their own setups, and have an entire studio in a box or two. There is a lot of competiton today too, in a rather tight market. I'm pretty amazed at what can be done today on one machine, but I guess all of that brings complexity
Today, we can all go to forums that companies often frequent, and request different features, as well as submit both positive and negative feedback. This really didn't exist not so many years ago.
Just a sampling of this forum could speak volumes on if, for example, we all tried to accomplish a similar thing musically. My guess is that each member might have similar yet slightly to largely different approaches to the way they want to work.
The one other glaring thing is that the original General midi standard from back then hasn't really evolved at all, but different companies have gone in somewhat different directions in order to upgrade and try to keep it commensurte with technological advances..eg - Yamaha with XG, Roland with GS, etc. So it isn't quite so "standard" any more.
As a side note, a while back, I ran across Tim Conrardy's Atari midi site. His site hosts many of the old commercial Atari apps, and most have now been released as freeware. His site also hosts the old .tos images as well as Steem, which is an Atari emulator for PC. I was thrilled when I was able to install steem and run some of the old Atari apps. Great nostalgia.. and fun, but also, there are quite a few apps that I find to still be useful, so many years later. Great job Tim, and many thanks for it.
AJ
and now, once again because AJ can type a lot faster than his marginal brain can think..... once again...
[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 05-02-2005).]
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#172484 - 05/04/05 10:20 AM
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Registered: 10/01/04
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Loc: USA
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Guys, sorry for not responding earlier. I always check my email for responses to my posts, but for some reason, I never get any from the Forum. I dont know how to fix that unfortunately. But anyways here we go: Im using One Man Band with my ES7 to come up with the backing tracks for my songs. I recently purchased Jamstix from Rayzoon, and I think my drum tracks will never be the same. Ok, but to use the ES7 with Mlan, you dont really need anything else. http://www.mlancentral.com/ Most of the stuff is included with your ES7. Yamaha gives you a CD with Editors, and even a fully loaded Audio and MIDI sequencer called Yamaha SQ1v2, which you can use with your Mlan16e to send audio and midi to your PC. I used this one mostly in the beginning till I learned how to use Cubase SX. Which is what I only use now. I basically use One Man Band, record the midi output of OMB to my Motif ES sequencer, then once the song is there, I can change voice patches, drumkits, or do what ever I wish to the song. Then, I hook up a microphone to the Analog inputs of my Motif ES, and patch that input via Mlan to my computer, apply insert effects if I wish, and send that vocal tracks, playing along with my motif sequenced tracks, all in pure digital audio to the pc via a single firewire cable. I dont have the latest System, but my athlon 2600XP is working flawlessly. Im using 512 pc3200 ram with a Firewire card, and its working like a dream. You can use any software you wish, but to make sure, you can always go to the: http://www.motifator.com/es/index_es.php Hey, gotta go but if you need any help, check out the Motif Forum, man, there is so much info there about mlan, and everything else. Dont get intimidated if you dont see many arranger folks there, but believe, there are, we are just behind the curtains. Im one. And proud too !! LOL Rock on my frinds, ------------------ Peace, Musikman
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