This episode was repeated to death but being the BBC they couldn't do any branding stuff. I made a point of tagging the Greengate DS-3 in this coz I think its an unsung hero re the progress of 80's electronica. It was a *relatively* cheap option for the not so rich & enabled quite a few of us to get our heads round sampling before it became mainstream. It was amazing what you could do with a couple of seconds of sample time! I loved my DS-3 & its still in storage in my folks loft : ))
One of our DS:4 customers gave me his, I think he had some fancy Korg sampler and wasn't using the DS:4. I still have that at home, but don't have an Apple IIe or IIgs to use it on!
Cheers for the comment :) I am currently in the process of archiving/ digitising boxes of 8-track sessions from the 80's before the tapes turn to mush! I've found some gems & I'm hoping to find the original reel of this track but I could well have recorded over it. If I do find it I will certainly be reworking it though even if I do it could be limited as I used to bounce a lot of tracks together... watch this space!
I was wondering if your Steve Martin based in Northampton I think in the 80's and knew a Lrry Babs though don't what his surname is now who gave you a demo tape os a track recorded at Mikro Studio's in Milton Keynes called "Nightmare?" Which really was my demo he stole around 1984- 85?
Strange that I hadn't seen this episode! Me and some friends made the sampler he uses.
Still have the Greengate DS:3 (keyboard, all of the software and MIDI-interface) and the Apple 2E. Everything still works!
This episode was repeated to death but being the BBC they couldn't do any branding stuff. I made a point of tagging the Greengate DS-3 in this coz I think its an unsung hero re the progress of 80's electronica. It was a *relatively* cheap option for the not so rich & enabled quite a few of us to get our heads round sampling before it became mainstream. It was amazing what you could do with a couple of seconds of sample time! I loved my DS-3 & its still in storage in my folks loft : ))
One of our DS:4 customers gave me his, I think he had some fancy Korg sampler and wasn't using the DS:4. I still have that at home, but don't have an Apple IIe or IIgs to use it on!
Please tell me you have a full master tape of this somewhere ... this NEEDS to come out with a longer edit mate.
Cheers for the comment :) I am currently in the process of archiving/ digitising boxes of 8-track sessions from the 80's before the tapes turn to mush! I've found some gems & I'm hoping to find the original reel of this track but I could well have recorded over it. If I do find it I will certainly be reworking it though even if I do it could be limited as I used to bounce a lot of tracks together... watch this space!
I was wondering if your Steve Martin based in Northampton I think in the 80's and knew a Lrry Babs though don't what his surname is now who gave you a demo tape os a track recorded at Mikro Studio's in Milton Keynes called "Nightmare?" Which really was my demo he stole around 1984- 85?
You may be able to get it to work on a modern computer with an Apple IIe/gs emulator.
Did you have a connection with Islington Music Workshop, Steve?
No mate, at that point I'd locked myself away in a 300 year old cellar in Northants for a few years, like ya do! :)