<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Brian<div class="">Im going to order<br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.discogs.com/Steve-Roach-The-Magnificent-Void/master/1109061" class="">https://www.discogs.com/Steve-Roach-The-Magnificent-Void/master/1109061</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John Titor </div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor</a></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Titor claimed to be an American soldier from 2036, based in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa,_Florida" title="Tampa, Florida" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Tampa, Florida</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">. He was assigned to a governmental time-travel project, and sent back to 1975 to retrieve an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100" title="IBM 5100" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">IBM 5100</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> computer which he said was needed to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug" class="mw-redirect" title="Debug" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">debug</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">various legacy computer programs in 2036</span></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">p.s. The source code for the Pink Tunes program is a good example of why Roland surely hasn’t based any new products on the original source code of the classic digital+analog hybrid systems of the eighties. Pink Tunes and its hardware driver were written in raw 6502 assembly code. Even though there are Java-based web simulators that can execute 6502 code, it would be insane to run Pink Tunes on anything but vintage hardware unless you totally ported the code to a modern language. The timing of these sorts of algorithms is much more important than the language they were written in anyway, so the point is somewhat moot.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="">I ordered Computer Experiments, Volume One from Audion back when it was still in print. I think that it was only available via mail order from a coupon included with other Synergy releases (at least in the vinyl days before CD and the reissues of Synergy music). I think that there was some technical limitation as to why they could only control 4 voices externally - perhaps related to the fact that the Prophet 5 has 1 voice which can be CV controlled and is wired slightly differently than the remaining voices.<br class=""><br class="">These tracks made an impression that has stuck with me ever since, although I wouldn’t exactly seek out more experiments like it. If anything, Computer Experiments illustrates the feeling of human composition that is missing when controlled-randomness takes over. I compared it to the novels written by neural network software which seemed at any point to make sense, but over duration of the narrative seemed to meander with no overarching plot, purpose, or destination. These computer-written experimental novels came out several years after Pink Tunes, but the results seemed quite similar even if the algorithms were way more advanced in the later experiments.<br class=""><br class="">I don’t think there was ever a Computer Experiments, Volume Two.<br class=""><br class="">The only music I’ve ever heard since then that came anywhere close was The Magnificent Void (1996) by Steve Roach. I think it’s uncanny how similar they sound, even though the creative techniques were quite different. I could not find a writeup of the exact techniques that Steve used, but the following is a review of the album which hints at how it was created.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://steveroach.com/Features/Void/Void.html" class="">http://steveroach.com/Features/Void/Void.html</a><br class=""><br class="">In a way, this “void” is very similar the the void left by the Pink Tunes “composer” which controlled the P4 (four voices of a Prophet 5). Steve Roach somehow conjured the void in such a way that the pieces on The Magnificent Void are quite distinctive in their feel from anything else that he or others have written. I highly recommend checking out that release.<br class=""><br class="">Brian Willoughby<br class=""><br class="">p.s. The source code for the Pink Tunes program is a good example of why Roland surely hasn’t based any new products on the original source code of the classic digital+analog hybrid systems of the eighties. Pink Tunes and its hardware driver were written in raw 6502 assembly code. Even though there are Java-based web simulators that can execute 6502 code, it would be insane to run Pink Tunes on anything but vintage hardware unless you totally ported the code to a modern language. The timing of these sorts of algorithms is much more important than the language they were written in anyway, so the point is somewhat moot.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Synth-diy mailing list<br class="">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org<br class="">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>