MOTM

Fellow MOTM user Ken E. shows off his rendering proweress! Clink on the
second link.

Now if he would be so kind as to do the same for MOTM... :)

Paul S.


> The SAGE project is complete.  The experiment is over.  I have all the
> information I need.  For those of you who want a more detailed look at how
> and why it was done, you can go to the following two links:
>
> http://hometown.aol.com/elhardt/Sage.html
>
> http://home.att.net/~teri43/sage2.htm
>
> I started to put stuff up on the first link but I ran into AOL
limitations.
> So most of the stuff is on the second link.  Now is your chance to pick up
> clean and/or bigger pictures and see a brief overview of how I did it.
>
> For those too lazy to go there, here is some brief information.
>
> Software used for Sage images:
> -------------------------------------------
> FormZ used for 3D modeling and rendering the Sage (Mac)
> Photoshop used for 2D painting and retouching  (Mac)
> Corel Draw used for panel diagram, texture map and ad text (PC)
>
> Hardware used for audio demos:
> -------------------------------------------
> Roland JP-8080 and MPX-100 for reverb (synth used for the 3 resynthesis
and
> Tomita demos)
> Roland VP-70, two MXR stereo chorus units and MPX-100 (used for Vocal
> Processor demo)
>
> Most of the talk (about 170 postings) was done on Sonic State's
> www.the-gas-station.com message board.  If the Sage were real, it might
have
> found about three to four buyers.  Other than the initial "Wow" type
> comments, Sage interest on Analog Heaven and elsewhere was virtually zero.
> Access can repackage the Virus B for the third time, add blue LEDs and
synth
> message lists get filled up with talk about it.  But give people something
> new and spectacular and most couldn't care less.  This could be important
> info for a synth manufacturer. "Don't create a synth like the Sage."
>
> I put some hints into the last image of the Sage to let people know it was
a
> fake.  But everybody overlooked them.  Just for interest, here they are:
>
> (1) I gave you a key to unlock one problem.  That was the panel diagram.
It
> told you that the knob being turned in the close up Sage picture is not
the
> "Band Shift" knob, but the Level knob.
>
> (2) If you got that far, then you passed over another problem.  I don't
know
> of any synth LED displays that have proportionally spaced type.  As you
can
> see, the "I" in the word shift takes up less room than other characters.
>
> (3) And the keyboard is totally different than the previous pictures.  The
> white keys should have been more like a piano style keyboard.
>
> It was fun and entertaining hovering above and looking in on different
> message boards.  And fun to mingle amongst you (Gas Station board) using
> different false names.  A couple of you even speculated that that might be
> the case.  Your suspicions were correct.
>
> Remember to hit the above two sites if you want to know how everything was
> faked.