"Old School MIDI Bragging Contests"

[monkey man]

Yeah, well, I used to record MIDI events by carving them in my bedpost. Oh wait, maybe that wasn't MIDI events!

[stubbsonic]

I notice you still have a K2500 in your signature. I can beat that — I have a K2000.

Wow! That is a relic!! I'm ready to sell my K2500R, though (have to fix the battery connection, first).

My K2661 is still going strong. Great piece of kit, as they say across the pond.

Yeah, well, I used to record MIDI events by carving them in my bedpost. Oh wait, maybe that wasn't MIDI events!

[oldecuriosity]

They were more annoyed that I was, and gave me an even swap for Dr. T KCS II. That did stuff I still don’t see in current DAWs. I’d probably still be using it if he had added audio.

Hmm . . . and here I was thinking I'm the only person that used Dr. T's before "settling" on Performer. I even remember calling support for Dr. T's and the owner/programmer actually took the call and helped me out. Now THAT was a great program back in the day!

[Rick Cornish]

...but did you run a rig with DUAL Commodore 64s—one running Syntech Sequencer and the other running Syntech's patch librarian for my MemoryMoog and DX7?

(And people still ask me why I reflexively hit Command-S after every single thing I do in DP.)

[bayswater]

...but did you run a rig with DUAL Commodore 64s—one running Syntech Sequencer and the other running Syntech's patch librarian for my MemoryMoog and DX7?

(And people still ask me why I reflexively hit Command-S after every single thing I do in DP.)

Rick, I think you won this by a long shot. Dual C64s!!

[stubbsonic]

(And people still ask me why I reflexively hit Command-S after every single thing I do in DP.)

Well, I try to, and I know why I do.

[Kurt Cowling]

My first rig with MIDI was an all Yamaha combination of a DX7, TX7, RX7 and QX7. No computer. The QX7 sequencer was two tracks (one to record into and one merged track for parts that were finished). It stored songs to data tape!

I later moved up to an Atari with Dr. T’s KCS with Tiger (The Integrated Graphic EditoR) and the SMPTE sync hardware. The piano roll view and nesting of sequences was really pretty cool!

My pre-MIDI rig was a Rhodes and a borrowed MiniMoog.

[wylie1]

I don't even remember the name of the software I used before Performer.
Its was basically just a multi track arpeggiator we use to sync to tape via a Jambox.
Now that I look the Jambox 4 and a Roland MT32 are still in the bottom of a rack here.
I guess I have a vintage section.

[stubbsonic]

Here's a small shoutout to the "old school" sequencer ("song mode") in the Kurzweil K2000/K2500/K2600/K2661. Surprisingly good/interesting feature-set, including reference quantizing (quantizing one track to the timing of another track), and being able to trigger entire sequences by playing keys where the volume levels of the tracks were scaled to velocity, etc. etc. I made some fun lil ditties in that world.

[bayswater]

Here's a small shoutout to the "old school" sequencer ("song mode") in the Kurzweil K2000/K2500/K2600/K2661.

I forgot about that. You could get the sequence for “On The Run” (Pink Floyd) and load it into the K2000. Apparently someone sequenced it for the K2000 as a master’s thesis. It was excellent. Still have it somewhere.

There are a bunch of them around now, e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-bUlnEGyC8
but I can’t find the original attempt anywhere online.

[James Steele]

This should be amusing for some of us. Came across this by mistake tonight:

[cuttime]

This should be amusing for some of us. Came across this by mistake tonight:

[mikehalloran]

Well, I'm a Johnny-come-lately. After I got tired of tin cans and string…

My intro to MIDI was Opcode Music Shop on a Mac Plus. I had originally bought Deluxe Music Construction Set (DMCS) for notation and had found a hack that let me run it over System 6 & 7 which, of course, couldn't be done Music Shop could open DMCS files plus my scores printed better on the ImageWriter II I had at the time.

Eventually, Encore could open Music Shop so I still have all that early work. Don Williams tells me that Encore 6 will be able to open my earliest Encore files (Encore 5.0.5 can't) but I've not seen a copy yet—I need to call him.

[James Steele]

This should be amusing for some of us. Came across this by mistake tonight:

How to imbed a video clip?

https://youtu.be/WaawXXqXExo

Just use the video ID from the share URL, select it and the use the YouTube tags around it:

Code: Select all

{youtube}Xyx123643{/youtube}

Just use the straight brackets instead of the curly ones in the example.