Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: ************************************ AM/FM *************************** XXXXXXXX Music Scene News by Kevan R.Craft Music-X V2.0 and Notator-X The U.K. Publishers Software Business set July 1994 for a public release date of the upgraded Music-X V2.0 and the new Notator-X. Price has been set for @149.99 for first time buyers and w90 for existing users upgrading from V1.1 of the ux Music-X V2.0 and Notator-X are to be ported over to the PC and Apple Mac computer Platforms! Bars and Pipes Professional Bars and Pipes Professional receives yet another upgrade which includes some major suggestions from the Classical Percussionist Evelyn Glennie .. OctaMED Professional OctaMED Professional coded by Teijo Kinnunen and Published by Ray Burt-Frost is abilits moment undergoing major re-coding for version 6 which will include the ability to load and save in standard MIDI file format and a much improved Notation screen display plus many new features .. Steinberg's Cubase The head of the coding team at Steinberg, the German company responsible for the amazingly professional and successful Cubase MIDI sequencer on the Atari, PC and Apple Mac computer platforms, was questioned by Kevan R. Craft at a recent MIDI show seminar in London as exist for the Amiga computer platform. to the reasons why the program doesn't The simple answer was that Steinberg's Cubase software sequencer will never appear on the Amiga computer because 1 million Amiga computers in the U.K. is far too small a user base to justify developing Cubase for the Amiga! According to sources, Steinberg have experimented porting the Cubase sequencer over to the Amiga platform but have experienced software timing problems because of the Amiga's WB 2.0 and 3.0 0/S operating system being tied to the CIA and CIIA Chips! Technical Dimensions 'The Amiga Experiment CD' Technical Dimensions, the young recording company in Newcastle, U.K, run by Producer John Atkinson, has chosen the quota of music received from Amiga musicians for the intended 'The Amiga Experiment' compilation CD and each musician has received recording contracts for their prospective songs. Artists featured include 'Paradise Decay', 'Ian Chisholm', 'Anthony Quinn', 'Dave Sullivan', 'Load Noise Culture', 'U4ia', 'Sanity', E. S.P', 'Digital Prophecy', 'Bret Mitchell', 'Andre Mayer', 'Bjorn Lynne', 'The Craft Brothers' and others The musical material is currently being digitally mastered. The Technical Dimensions CD will be pressed very shortly. Initially priced at ú9.99 plus ú1 Postage & Packing and orders can be placed now by contacting: John Atkinson Technical Dimensions 32 Midway Walker Newcastle Upon Tyne. NE6 3PA. England. U.K. Tel: +44 091 263 7971 Cynostic, a young Amiga/CD software development company, in Coventry, U.K. and Seasoft Computing, an Amiga/PC software distributor in Essex, U.K. are both to distribute the Technical Dimensions compilation CD 'The Amiga Experiment'! Roland Owners Club (ROC) A new Roland Owners Club has recently been established in the U.K. for keyboard Players, Guitarists and Drummers. If you wish to join a U.K. based Nation Wide Club dedicated to all Owners of Roland, Rhodes and Boss Products then for further details contact :- Tony Eve ROC 130 Wingfield Orton Goldhay Peterborough. PE2 5TJ. England. U.K. Tel: +44 0487 740343 (Daytime) +44 0733 233135 (Evenings) C & D Compact Disk Services C & D Compact Disk Services, the Dundee, Scotland based company who distribute rare and import electronic music CD, available through their mail order company are selling the famous Amiga musician - Allister Brimble's 'Sounds Digital' CD for ú10.99 excluding Postage and Packing. For more information contact :- C & D Compact Disk Services Magnum House 140 Seagate Dundee. DD1 2HF Scotland. U.K. Tel: +44 0382 76595 Fax: 0382 736702 Electronic Music and Musicians Association (EMMA) As announced by the Electronic Music & Musicians Association the TAN. D/E.M. (Almost) Secret Summer Ball is being held on Saturday 20th August 1994 starting at 2.00 pm until 11.30 pm. Venue is the Oaktree Lane Recreation Centre, Mansfield, and its an event which will appeal to both Tangerine Dream and general Electronic Music fans alike, the venue includes a bar. Live sets are promised by David Wright, Robert Fox, Andy Pickford, Jerome Ramsey and the Amiga musician Allister Brimble. Dealer stalls are also planned! Tickets are 17.50 for EMMA members, 08.50 otherwise. For more details contact :- Julian Bickmore on +44 0623 657907 or Jason Hopkins on +44 0533 704315 Future Age Music Express Future Age Music, distributors of the Doepfer MAQ 16/3 analogue MIDI sequencer, have released a 'low cost' analogue synth sample CD. Priced at ú24.95 including postage anywhere in the world, 'Classic Synths Plus' features sounds from a wide variety of vintage instruments (Minimoog, TB303, Yamaha CS80, Oberheim DB1, TR 808, TR909), and not so vintage instruments, including Roland JD990 and the Korg Wavestation. Many instruments are featured that you may not have seen on other sample CD's, including the Roland Jupiter 4, Moog Sonic 6, Yamaha TX 802, Kawai K1 and many more. The CD runs for a full 74 minutes, and many samples feature ambience in one channel to give you various sampling options. Contact :- Future Age Music Express Box 387 1A Buckingham Road London. N22 6SF. Tel: +44 081 889 0616 +44 081 889 0616 IIDICraft Compositions and Arrangements MIDICraft have announced plans to produce further additions to their expanding range of MIDICraft Music-X and MIDI volumes including MIDICraft Vol#3 (50 new and fully arranged, complete multi-part, Music-X and MIDI scores with ASCII documentation and Lyrics), MIDICraft Vol #4 for KEYS (50 Music-X and MIDI songs and scores for Pianos and Organs) MIDICraft Dynamite Drums Vol#2 (260 X 260 = 520 Music-X and MIDI individual genre Drum Patterns, Fills, Intros and Endings in GM/GS Standard with documentation). And a new idea, MIDICraft Style Madness Vol#1 (a series of both Music-X and MIDI music styles constructed in multi- ol#1 C parts, containing a bar in a full Octave of each Intro, Verse styles, Bridge styles, Fills and Endings) - ideal for Music-X and MIDI composition and arrangement. All the MIDICraft series will now be produced using the new Music-X V2.0 and Notator-X software and will be made available between Summer and early Fall 1994 .. A recent deal has been struck between Technical Dimensions and MIDICraft to produce a series of traditional Christmas Carols in Music-X and MIDI format using Music-X V2.0 and Notator-X to be multi-tracked and digitally mastered for a series of Schools Christmas recording projects in the North of England.
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