On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 10:47 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings, > > For no reason beyond boredom I decided to pester this list with an OT > topic or two. So, without further delay: > > What was your first computer ? Sinclair ZX81 > And for extra points: > > What was the first music/sound software you used that really hooked you > into this making-music-with-computers fad ? ZX Spectrum and RAM Music Machine - simple 8-bit sampler and MIDI interface borrowed from a mate at school. I ended up writing custom DSP code in assembler to apply echo, distortion and filtering effects to incoming audio. This must have been about 20 years ago or more - I was in 3rd year at high school, so I was probably about 13 or 14. I also wrote a thing that triggered a couple of envelopes and output four different squarewaves through a modified printer port on the Spectrum, allowing me to write beepy tunes and pass the results through a homemade filter bank and homemade tape echo. I wish I could find those old tapes. I wonder if I could recreate them? Probably wouldn't be the same... Gordon _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
