sethian@cmcl2.UUCP (12/27/84)
The previous message about MIDI interfaces strikes me as a chance to bring up the topic of creating net.music.synth for electronic music, synthesizers. etc. If there's enough support out there, could someone who knows how do create a new group tell me? Or better yet, start it themselves? I' m new to the net and don't know how it is done. Respond to the net or by UNIX mail to sethian@nyu or sethian@lbl-csam
dave@rocksanne.UUCP (12/27/84)
I saw a band in Buffalo that had MIDI synths and drum machines hooked up
to a Commodore C-64/disk. They used it pretty well, in fact all the band
members sort of left one by one about 3 minutes before the end of the song.
When the piece finished they we all standing in the crowd clapping and
screaming with the rest of us. The piece kept evolving and changing during
the time that no one was there so the interface did more than turn everything
off. I believe they had Roland synths and a Sequential Systems Drum machine.
I talked to the lead guy during the intermission and he said most of the
base material is stored by the MIDI and that it gave him more time to add
things in and sing the words without feeling like a keyboard operator. I
also noticed that everyone in the band was chain-smoking, I suspect it also
gave them more time to light another cancer stick also!!
The name of the band is Nulstad, look them up if you ever see them. They
play a form of techno-pop that is pretty good.
Dave
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