MC-404

[Andrew Schrock]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 Romeo_Fahl at stream.com wrote:
> 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".

How else would Eno have gotten some of the pads on "on land"? They just
scream 'Ambient composer' to me. Must be the 8-pole filter or the special
envelopes.. the fact that it was a digital/analog hybrid was
groundbreaking at the time. too bad it was only released to a few select
customers. I actually had schematics once, but they were lost in a move. 

Andrew

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