Fw: [AH] SAGE mystery solved
2000-05-24 by Paul Schreiber
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
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> 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.