[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[Rude 66]

and how about the 68000's place in synth history? it powered the atari st,
which almost single handedly changed the way people worked with synths. no
more hardware sequencers, but a graphical environment. and affordable, too.
especially in the late 80's, there were lots of chart hits with just an
atari, a sampler and a synth. it made the whole thing affordable to a lot of
kids, for who working with synths was just a dream before. quite a lot of
them are now celebrated artists or producers.
it also gave midi a whole new place, and pushed it beyond most users wildest
imaginations. a lot of midi orientated stuff that pc and mac users take for
granted today was developed for the atari, from cubase to logic to midi- and
sound editors.. and to this day it 'urinates' all over a 3 ghz pc or g5 when
it comes to midi timing.. solid as a rock, it's like an early mpc. the
secret to both: midi built right into the machine itself.

and didn't it also power that little apple mac?

r./






----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen" <mclilith at charter.net>
To: "Magnus Danielson" <cfmd at bredband.net>; <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
Cc: <jmahoney at gate.net>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....


> At 08:37 AM 2/1/04 , Magnus Danielson wrote:
>
> >I've always considered the 80186/80188 an embedded version of the
8086/8088
> >which fits various needs outside those of normal "desktop" computing. For
> >instance, I have one sitting in the graphical engine of my Tek 11402
scope.
> >It has a 80286 for main-processor. Whoaaa! Now that's computing power!
;O)
>
> Just to bring this back to the realm of synths, the Chroma Polaris used
the
> 80186. I'm not sure about the Chroma and the Chroma Expander, but I
suspect
> they might also use the 80186.
>
> later,
> Glen Berry
>
>