As I posted elsewhere, I recently bought some old software, including some 68k mac music apps I have always wanted to check out. My first 68k Macs are: a Plus given to me by a friend, which I never had software for; and a Duo280c from another friend which I have never gotten to run. My first real Mac use was a Performa 6250CD shortly followed by an 8500, in the late 90s. So now I am finally using a 68k Mac and learning my way around.
This SE looks great, it was used but cared for. I bought it from the original owner who used it for publishing. My main 68k is an Atari Falcon 030, and this SE is noticeably less spry. I have an old square external SCSI enclosure from "Cutting Edge" which I installed 6.0.8 on. The square box matches the footprint of the bottom of the SE. I had an old Opcode MIDI interface years ago with the same form factor but I donated it to a friends new Mac setup. The SE turned out to be a good choice for the programs I have here, because they seem to have come out at around the same time.
So far I have installed Intelligent Music's M and Jam Factory, algorithmic jammers which seem quite deep. And Laurie Spiegel's MIDI Mouse, which is a sort of alternate music controller software, set up for the DX7 and CZ101 which suits me fine. I found that I already had a floppy for SoundEdit 2.0.5 which works on this thing, so I can use it to synthesize soundfiles with its noise generators, or even edit audio files. And lastly Coda Perceive, which is an ear-training package. My experience thus far is connecting an old, single-port MOTU interface to the modem connector and haphazardly joyriding MIDI riffs to my CZ1. Very fun stuff indeed.
I know that on my heaps of old CDs I did acquire other 68k music software which will probably run on this old thing. Tonight I am trying to find them and figure out how to transfer them to the SE.
My main concern about this box is that there is a very noticeable lag when trying to interact with the gui. It's not horrible, but not great for musical work/play. I wonder what I can do to tweak the performance of the SE a bit. It is great simplicity though to not even bother with OMS or such things. I just confirm the "modem port", and "1MHz" dialogue and jam.
This SE looks great, it was used but cared for. I bought it from the original owner who used it for publishing. My main 68k is an Atari Falcon 030, and this SE is noticeably less spry. I have an old square external SCSI enclosure from "Cutting Edge" which I installed 6.0.8 on. The square box matches the footprint of the bottom of the SE. I had an old Opcode MIDI interface years ago with the same form factor but I donated it to a friends new Mac setup. The SE turned out to be a good choice for the programs I have here, because they seem to have come out at around the same time.
So far I have installed Intelligent Music's M and Jam Factory, algorithmic jammers which seem quite deep. And Laurie Spiegel's MIDI Mouse, which is a sort of alternate music controller software, set up for the DX7 and CZ101 which suits me fine. I found that I already had a floppy for SoundEdit 2.0.5 which works on this thing, so I can use it to synthesize soundfiles with its noise generators, or even edit audio files. And lastly Coda Perceive, which is an ear-training package. My experience thus far is connecting an old, single-port MOTU interface to the modem connector and haphazardly joyriding MIDI riffs to my CZ1. Very fun stuff indeed.
I know that on my heaps of old CDs I did acquire other 68k music software which will probably run on this old thing. Tonight I am trying to find them and figure out how to transfer them to the SE.
My main concern about this box is that there is a very noticeable lag when trying to interact with the gui. It's not horrible, but not great for musical work/play. I wonder what I can do to tweak the performance of the SE a bit. It is great simplicity though to not even bother with OMS or such things. I just confirm the "modem port", and "1MHz" dialogue and jam.