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I'm really amateurish I'm afraid. I have Grade 5 music Theory in the UK and I passed grade 6 Trumpet (a long time ago). I can hack my way through modern worship songs on a piano/keyboard, so you're way ahead of anything I've done. I've had a little look for the Lime manuscript editor on the Macintosh Garden, but couldn't find it. I've also had a look for my DX100 Mac editor and again, haven't found it yet. I'll search deeper in my catalogue of Zip disks!
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@jgardner : I've searched through all my Zip 100MB disks, but couldn't find it. But it could be elsewhere, I tend to just keep everything I've used so it might be on a backup somewhere or another HD or maybe even my Zip 250MB disks.
Let me know when/if you find it! Would love to give it a try. I don't have a DX100 (yet), but I do have a TX802, and Yamaha made it generally pretty easy to convert one FM library to another I think, especially between the 80's models without internal FX etc
This would be pretty incredible actually. The keyboard and mouse would be the most useful to me at the moment, but having a modern board interface with a CRT is pretty revolutionary in this moment I would say. I've seen people use original mice and keyboards before with FPGA's but never a CRT aside from the regular composite, s-video and RGB signals.
Ah I have to try Opcode Galaxy still, sounds interesting for sure! Yes there is a wealth of other incredible software for the mac. Here's a good article on some of this history worth preserving by artist Kristen Roos: https://clotmag.com/oped/intelligen...ehind-vintage-algorithmic-sequencing-software.
I found most of this type of software via Muzines, which has an incredible archive of music technology magazines where the software was reviewed and tested. Very interesting to read how these innovations were perceived at the time. The archive has been OCR'd with images, so all these reviews are now pretty easy to search through and dig for information on hardware or software from the time.
I also developed an Arduino based sound editor for my Yamaha TQ-5. Those things were amazing: a multitimbral DX-11 + Digital effects synth module, but packaged in an archetypal 1990s design, so ugly eBay sellers would pay you to take it off their hands!
But it's a true synth too. You can roughly edit sounds using the keys on the left, but full editing is possible though MIDI and the parameters are a superset of a DX-21.
Awesome project.
Snial/jgardner here's the Lime Music Notation Software. May be earlier versions around, didn't check -do tell if needed.
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Snial/jgardner here's the Lime Music Notation Software. May be earlier versions around, didn't check -do tell if needed.
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Thanks! As it happens I later found a copy of an early version, Lime Demo 1.0 or so that runs on a 68000. I'll post that soon.
Please do! At the time, I was only using DMCS and when it came along, Finale (which I despised from the start). I'd be very interested to see someone else's idea of what notation software could look like. https://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/cgi-bin/Lime/Larchive.html has 7.42, but I'm pretty sure that only went back to 030 or 040? I know I tried Lime a decade or two ago, but unfortunately I can't remember anything about it (and it didn't make my short list of notation/engraving tools).
And hey-presto, here it is! LimeDemo1.1 runs on a 68000 Mac too!
Here's some other versions, if someone's got the time to grab them from the archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/* (use the filter hqx to see the Mac files).
Looks like it has versions 6.0.0, 7.0.3, 7.2.7, 7.4.2, 8.0.0, 8.4.1 beta, and 9.0.0. 8.x and later appear to be PPC-only, and possibly OS 9/X only.
Unfortunately, http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/cgi-bin/Lime/ftp/mac/ never made it into the wayback engine, or we might have more versions archived.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/* (use the filter hqx to see the Mac files).
Looks like it has versions 6.0.0, 7.0.3, 7.2.7, 7.4.2, 8.0.0, 8.4.1 beta, and 9.0.0. 8.x and later appear to be PPC-only, and possibly OS 9/X only.
Unfortunately, http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/cgi-bin/Lime/ftp/mac/ never made it into the wayback engine, or we might have more versions archived.
Yes, they only seem to list much later versions than the one I used.
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