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| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Moderator: | DYPSS1::SCHAFER |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Aug 29 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2852 |
| Total number of notes: | 33157 |
2073.0. ""Auto-arrangers"???" by FGVAXX::LAING (Soft-Core Cuddler*Jim Laing*285-2194) Tue Aug 08 1989 16:49
I've been starting to look for what I think of as a "glorified drum
machine", i.e. an "auto-arranger" that allows me to have lots of
control in real time, etc. I guess the simplest version of what
I seek is the "automatic features" in some organs ... but I hope
that there are more "intelligent" and interesting varieties! Something
that lets me get rhythm variations, fills, "arranger" variations,
vary tempo easily on the fly, and ideally something that "follows
what I'm playing" and creates an -on-the-fly accompaniment that
"makes sense". Maybe those computer-based things like Jam factory
are what I seek, but I wonder about stand-alone devices that do
this. Ideally ... a set of automated "accompanists" (a drummer,
bass player, and a keyboard player) to "back me up" when I want
to play on my own (as opposed to "with myself" :-}) at home,
and have more than just a drum machine backing me up, with out
having to pre-sequence it all...
What I've seen so far is the Roland E-20 (R-50 w/o a keyboard).
Seems like something close to what I seek ... but I wonder what
other devices like this might exist ...
-Jim
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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2073.1 | Dusty Memory... | CASPRO::SEDER | Musical Schizophrenic | Wed Aug 09 1989 03:08 | 7 |
| I probably shouldn't say anything, because I don't remember exactly,
but didn't Sequential Circuits have a Studio-440 or something-440
that did these things? I saw one at East Coast Sound about 3 years
ago.
PJS
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| 2073.2 | Something new in this line from Roland | KALLON::EIRIKUR | Hallgr�msson, ACA and CDA Prod. Mgr. | Wed Aug 09 1989 11:43 | 6 |
| There's a new Roland animal like this. I saw it at Acton (Mass.)
Music. Short keyboard, big mixer-like control panel, lots of
rhythym-hacking features. I don't recall the model number.
Eirikur
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| 2073.3 | Roland Pro-E, perhaps? | FGVAXX::LAING | Soft-Core Cuddler*Jim Laing*285-2194 | Thu Aug 10 1989 11:59 | 10 |
| Re .2
This might be the Pro-E. I saw this briefly, also. Seems to use
LA synthesis based on MT-32, same as Roland's E-10, E-20 and R-50.
Has about 33 sampled "sound FX" ... some interesting, but fixed
of course (i.e. can't add more FX). It did sound decent; I may
check it out further. I just hope that the sound quality is "above"
that from the old MT-32s...
-Jim
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