[Coco] More coco music on the web

[Bill Pierce]

Torsten,
I played a Korg Poly800 for about 3 or 4 years in a band I was in. It was a really versatile machine. I remember spending about a month going through the manual learning how to set up parameters for my custom sounds. The keyboard actually belonged to a friend of mine but he lived about 400 yrds from me and played in the band as well, so I got to keep it for awhile.
 
 
If you ever do drag up that Coco 2 software, I'd love to see it. Especially the sources on how you accessed midi. I have all Lester Hands' midi sources, or at least all he could find after dragging his Coco stuff out of the garage where it had been for 25 years LOL
I have the sources for Lyra, Musica, Coco MIDI 3, Coco MIDI Pro and several of his attempts at OS9 software (he never did get it right). If you ever want any of it, let me know. I hope to set up a Coco Source Archive soon and make all the sources I've gathered public. I'm still looking for more :-)
 

Bill Pierce
"Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Torsten Dittel <OS-9 at TRS-80.CC>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Sep 27, 2014 11:09 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] More coco music on the web


Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at ...> writes:

> While doing some Coco related searching, I found some Coco related music
on a site.
> The music is by Walter Myers. He states he used a Coco 3, Yamaha TX91Z,
and OS9 running a "Lyra to Midi"
> program... (never seen this one.. anyone?)
> This is some pretty good stuff 

Interesting find. I remember the Yamaha TX81Z very well, that was the time
when the DX7-like "digital" FM sound kind of defined electronic and popular
music of the 80s (until the "analog" sound was re-discovered - however, the
Korg Poly800EX was a great companion in the 80s in our MIDI rack...). Since
it had some other-than-sine waveforms in his ROM as well, it had some
impressive pre-programmed bass sounds if I remeber that well (gosh, that's
some 25 to 30 years ago...). It was kind of impossible to program that one
thanks to it's limited UI.

I remember I tried to manage and back-up sound banks with a MIDI Dump SW I
wrote for the CoCo2 using the bitbanger port (I hope I will ever find that
peace of ML source again - it had a nice PMODE 4 GUI incuding mouse pointer
and a piano keyboard at the bottom of the screen which was highlighting the
MIDI notes (poly-phone!) in real time - that was fun to watch while playing
on the MIDI keyboard. I wanted to make that piece of SW a sequencer (with
rec/play) as well, but I never terminated that work when I got my first
ATARI 1040STFM with C-LAB Notator SL in 1989). However, the TX81Z had some
nasty issues with the SYSEX dump handshake (I think the 6303-type µC was too
slow for all the tasks it had - they should have used a 6309 ;-)).

Thanks for bringing some memories back. I need to get all this stuff out of
the boxes despite I doubt my MEGA ST4 and the MegaFile20 (20MB HD, LOL!)
will power up after all the time...

Regards,
Torsten

PS: I just googled that one:
https://soundcloud.com/chaconne/tx81z-bass-sounds



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