MC-404

[Romeo_Fahl at stream.com]

That was the Ambient composer.  Roland Co-designed it with Brian Eno, John Cage
and a couple of other "atmospheric" composers.  The machine never reached mass
production because it involved gobs of RAM, which in the 80's was very cost
prohibitive, nor was there a CPU capable of generating the complex "zufall"
(randomness) algorithms required to make this a true "Ambient Composer".






"Louis Otero" <tech4 at freshmilk.com> on 09/23/99 04:18:39 PM

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HAs anyone seen or touched a MC-404.  I hear someone is selling one.  I
didn't know Roland made one until I found it on a site but it had no
info on it...  It only stated that it was made...



Tech4

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