[sdiy] Fw: John Simonton

[john mahoney]

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From: "Grant Richter" <grichter at asapnet.net>
> And lets not forget the 8700 computer keyboard with Quash, which
> actually worked quite well (for the price).
> Hand loading the software was a bitch though, ha, ha. But I did my
> first 4 part keyboard sequencing on one.

Sure! I used to read the Polyphony articles (and the catalog info) about
that stuff. I was just starting to learn about computers and synths, and
personal computers were a new concept. More of an unknown concept, really.
And here was JS writing about what you could do with them.

As Craig Anderton said:
    "John was also the first person I met who truly understood where
personal computers would take music. He foresaw that we'd be sitting in our
comfy chairs, editing on-screen instruments and processors on a big screen.
He backed up that vision with a microcomputer-based modular synthesizer kit
that, once more, brought real synthesis power to the people and once more,
was ahead of its time."


The 8700 computer could run different software. I remember there were your
basic mono and poly assignment programs plus sequencers, arpeggiators, and
an echo/delay program. Not sure what other programs there were. Not sure
where my "Friendly Stories..." book is, either. But, anyway...

John Simonton created the orignal PSIM. ;-)
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john