27 Jun
2000
27 Jun
'00
12:05 p.m.
Hello R.
On 27-Jun-00, you wrote:
The only thing I know of, is a kit to retrofit Hammonds for midi, send only.
So you can tie a keyboard in with your Hammond, but a computer can't play.
Are you trying to replace my job with a button? GRRROOOWWWWLLLLLL!!?!?
Regards
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Gary Hildebrand
ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
On Mon, 26 Jun
2000, allisonp wrote:
[...] Hammond Organs, Subotnick, etc.
> We should talk in terms of how old
computers were used
> for music or declare this the official off topic thread. We
> always seem to have one and often they are as interesting
> as any even if they are OT.
Well, then let's get a discussion going about the uses of older
computers with music, from real-time synthesis performed by computers
to computers controlling synthesizers. I always thought it would be
fun to have a large old pipe organ controlled by a hulking
minicomputer with blinking lights, paying Bach's Fuge in D-minor, and,
also controlled by the same system, special-effects lighting, a few
fair-sized jacob's ladders and tesla coils... with all the circuitry
external to the computer used for switching done by vacuum-tube
circuitry, not SCRs, transistors, etc. :-) Does anyone know of any
Wurlitzers controlled by computers or retrofitted to be controlled by
computers?
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R. D. Davis
rdd(a)perqlogic.com
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
410-744-4900