3 Jun
2000
3 Jun
'00
5:09 p.m.
Don't tell tell any of my CD's that! I have
quite a few oldies - first
generation pressings from the mid-1980s - and they work just as well
today as they did when pressed. To add to that, my CD player is also a
old type (remember the Index feature on CDs? I've only run across two CDs
that use them)
I've got several CD's that uses the Index feature, but they're all
Bach CD's. (OK, one of them is Wendy Carlos playing,
but that counts, right?)
For old-music-CD's, who here remembers the "Preemphasis" bit? I've got
a player that indicates that status on the display, though the only CD
I have that uses it is a special test disk.
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3 Jun
3 Jun
5:37 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
I've got several CD's that uses the Index
feature, but they're all
Bach CD's. (OK, one of them is Wendy Carlos playing,
but that counts, right?)
Hey, that's all the more on-topic here, as (s)he performed music using
a PDP-11! Is anyone else here (John W., does this still interest
you?) interested in using PDP-11s for music/sound synthesis.
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4 Jun
4 Jun
5:55 a.m.
New subject: Computer music (was: Re: OT: Archiving data/video/movies/photos/oral history
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, R. D. Davis wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com
wrote:
I don't know about PDP's, but when I was at UCSB, a "computer
music" class was offered, using "Csound" software running on
VAXen.
In 84-85, they used part of one the Computer Science Department's
machines (a VAX 11/780 running Unix). Csound required its own
disk drive, to keep the sound from being chopped up by other
processes goin on in that machine. It also had its own version
of Unix commands (for example, instead of mv or rm, you'd say
mvsf or rmsf, again because of the specific demands of the
csound software).
About a year later, the
Music Department got its own VAX. They switched to individual
Suun workstations a year or two after I had left in 1987.
I've got several CD's that uses the Index
feature, but they're all
Bach CD's. (OK, one of them is Wendy Carlos playing,
but that counts, right?)
Hey, that's all the more on-topic here, as (s)he performed music using
a PDP-11! Is anyone else here (John W., does this still interest
you?) interested in using PDP-11s for music/sound synthesis.
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