13 Mar
2010
13 Mar
'10
4:01 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:49:25PM +0000, Folderol wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:14:16 -0800
Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
Glad you liked it!
I was all of 22 years old when I wrote it. It took months; I edited every single note of
it manually. It used up the maximum number of tracks that SMPTETrack supported (40, IIRC?)
and every last partial that the MT-32 supported too. A lot of the edits were to economize
on partials.
Somewhere I have the original file, a copy of SMPTETrack, and an Atari ST emulator for
Linux. IIRC the emulator patches the MIDI output into the ALSA sequencer. At some point,
I'll re-render it using LinuxSampler sounds.
Partial screenshot:
http://www.restivo.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/spaceman-color.png
-ken
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:12:31PM -0600, Josh
Lawrence wrote:
Very impressive piece of work - quite unlike anything I've heard form
you before!
I found this to be interesting:
http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/2010/03/08/sequencing-atari-st-cubase-2-0/
(site is pretty heavy on graphics)
summary for the lazy:
person did a test of various MIDI sequencers on various platforms, the
Atari STe was the winner.
Awesome!
I have fond memories of Atari ST's. I had an Atari 1040ST running HybridArts
SMPTETrack. It had a greyscale monitor, and I combined it with a Roland MT-32 and an
RD-250 piano, and that was my studio for a couple years.
I did a bunch of anal-retentive "masterpeices" on that setup, i.e. this one,
which is probably the most prog-rock-like thing I've put out:
http://www.archive.org/download/AtmosphericCD1998/12_Spaceman.ogg
-ken 