It has been a great week for cheap interesting finds!
Opcode:
new boxed Vision 2.5 for Windoze - not as good as Mac version, but still quite good at that. Weird to see OMS running in Win98se
new boxed Max 3.5.9 - more Max! This is my third license for Max, if we don't count the fourth NFD developer release of Max 2.5
MacsBug Blues:
A three-ring binder and cassette from the Software Development Training Group, 5/29/91. It's a tutorial on the internals of Macintosh memory and the OS's use of it, and how to sift through it with MacsBug. The binder is crazy, it is printed in a blue vinyl with faux denim texture, and when the cover is opened there is another vinyl denim page with a vinyl pouch which is a mock-up of the back pocket of a pair of Levi's jeans, with the tape inside! Since the tape and pictures are meant to be followed along with together, this is really like a pre-multimedia artifact. Another year or two later and this would definitely have been released as a Hypercard stack or Quicktime slideshow. So I am going to make a slideshow out of it myself, because I like this package and enjoy messing around with Quicktime.
MIDI gear - To use with my Macs!
Korg DSM-1 sampler. I hardly ever see these. User-definable digital waves with analog signal path and crazy routing. Kind of like the DSS-1 but this has some more sampler-like features, as opposed to synth ones. And it is in beautiful shape.
Yamaha A4000 - newer 90's sampler with beatslicing, fairly sophisticated, impressive synthesis capabilities
Korg SDD-3300 - three 12-bit. 88kHz delays which can be run in serial or parallel, each with modulation, phase, and routing options
Oh yes, and Steinberg Avalon 2 sample editor for Atari, with dongle. Guess I will need to finish putting my Mega 2 back together
Opcode:
new boxed Vision 2.5 for Windoze - not as good as Mac version, but still quite good at that. Weird to see OMS running in Win98se
new boxed Max 3.5.9 - more Max! This is my third license for Max, if we don't count the fourth NFD developer release of Max 2.5
MacsBug Blues:
A three-ring binder and cassette from the Software Development Training Group, 5/29/91. It's a tutorial on the internals of Macintosh memory and the OS's use of it, and how to sift through it with MacsBug. The binder is crazy, it is printed in a blue vinyl with faux denim texture, and when the cover is opened there is another vinyl denim page with a vinyl pouch which is a mock-up of the back pocket of a pair of Levi's jeans, with the tape inside! Since the tape and pictures are meant to be followed along with together, this is really like a pre-multimedia artifact. Another year or two later and this would definitely have been released as a Hypercard stack or Quicktime slideshow. So I am going to make a slideshow out of it myself, because I like this package and enjoy messing around with Quicktime.
MIDI gear - To use with my Macs!
Korg DSM-1 sampler. I hardly ever see these. User-definable digital waves with analog signal path and crazy routing. Kind of like the DSS-1 but this has some more sampler-like features, as opposed to synth ones. And it is in beautiful shape.
Yamaha A4000 - newer 90's sampler with beatslicing, fairly sophisticated, impressive synthesis capabilities
Korg SDD-3300 - three 12-bit. 88kHz delays which can be run in serial or parallel, each with modulation, phase, and routing options
Oh yes, and Steinberg Avalon 2 sample editor for Atari, with dongle. Guess I will need to finish putting my Mega 2 back together
