ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) (06/11/88)
The July issue of KEYBOARD MAGAZINE has the first music-related Commodore Amiga ad I've seen. It is a 2-page spread, hand-drawn with a spacey, Dali-like landscape and an A500. "The Computer that Works Like the Mind of a Musician", it touts. "A musician's mind is like a miraculous computer that runs several programs at the same time. It weaves a bass line while painting an improvised melody.... Commodore Amiga personal computers work much the same way." There's about 4 more paragraphs of information, almost exclusively devoted to the Amiga's multitasking nature and how it enhances compositional speed and creativity. It's a little hokey, but at least Commodore has a 2-page spread in a music magazine! Atari and Apple have 'em too. And their ads are just as hokey. -- Dan Barrett ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP barrett@cs.jhu.edu
ma179aav@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU (Stephen Hartford) (06/15/88)
ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes: >The July issue of KEYBOARD MAGAZINE has the first music-related >Commodore Amiga ad I've seen. >It's a little hokey, but at least Commodore has a 2-page spread in >a music magazine! Atari and Apple have 'em too. And their ads >are just as hokey. Actually, the Apple ad explains how eight major recording studios use Macintoshes to help produce hit singles. Apple provides a toll-free number musicians can call to get a video showing how Mac is used in the professional music world. To me anyways, this was much more effective than an abstract painting. Especially when the only other Amiga ads are for MusicX (RSN), and Dynamic Studio (buggy, slow, poor user-interface, doesn't support multi-tasking). OK, so the Atari ad WAS hokey... (it suits) -- Stephen Hartford shartford@ucsd.edu, *but only until June 17, 1988,* This summer at: NewTek, 115 W. Crane St., Topeka, KS 66603 (913) 354-1146 San Diego Amiga Users Group, P.O. Box 80186, San Diego, CA 92138-0186