| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Moderator: | DYPSS1::SCHAFER |
| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Aug 29 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Have any of you out there used the Cherry Lane/Roger Powell Textra MIDI program in either the Appple or preferably IBM incarnation? As I understand it this is about the minimum configuration program for the IBM system with something like the 32 track Octave Plateau program coming in at the top with maybe the Roland MPS program. Any help on this or viewpoints would be appreciated. Waht do you all think opf a Casio CZ-101 as a voice system to hang out there? /Dennis Savage
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| 175.1 | SIVA::FEHSKENS | Tue Nov 05 1985 15:40 | 26 | ||
I can't talk about the computer end, but I've had a CZ-101 for a while, so I can talk about that. It's a pretty neat machine - the concept behind it is very clever, and analogous enough (excuse me) to traditional analog synthesis that it's failry easy to understand. The presets that come with it are "lame". What's more, even though you can edit them, you can't save the edited versions. On a 101 (as opposed to a 1000), you've really only got 16 programmable voices. Until Casio makes the memory cartridges available, you're stuck with 16. And there's no tape interface, so you can't save them except by writing down all the parameter values. There is some software that does CZ-101/1000 voice management on an Apple or IBM. The machine is capable of some nice stuff though, as the 6 8-stage Envelope generators are very flexible. Even though there are 8 oscillators, you can only get 4 timbres at one note apiece in MIDI/solo mode (each on successive channels off the base channel - e.g., 3, 4, 5 and 6). My system just crashed and came back so I've lost all my context. Anyway, the CZ-101 is a bargain for what it's capable of, but unless they've significantly revised the presets, it requires some adept programming. len. | |||||
| 175.2 | SAUTER::SAUTER | Wed Nov 13 1985 08:00 | 5 | ||
I've never heard of Textra; do you mean Texture? As best I can
tell it is all advertising. Please let us know if Cherry Lane
Technology actually delivers it to you. I've been trying to
order the Apple version for months.
John Sauter
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| 175.3 | _SPHINX::SAVAGE | Wed Nov 13 1985 10:15 | 12 | ||
John-
Well I thought it was Textra... Maybe that's just me over the phone...
Anyway the Apple version was in stock last week at Wurlitzers in Boston and
is also available from Sam Ash and Manny's...
Sam Ash 800-472-6274
Manny's 212-819-0576
Wurlitzers Boston 437-1815
Dennis Savage
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