Harmonic Series, Synthesis, pseudo-random childhood.
Orchestra 90 CC is a 5 voice, Stereo, dual 8-bit DAC synthesizer/music composer for the Tandy Color Computer (from the 1980s).
I had it. I used it.. a lot. Wrote a number of songs and even have a few saved to cassette that I have on Soundcloud.
I was creating my own sounds on the computer, building the harmonics, playing with shaping pseudo-random generators. It’s what I had to do to get music and make instruments so I did it.
I was a kid. I didn’t know this was advanced stuff that was related to physics and stuff. Shaping randomness to suit my aesthetics made sense. I don’t know why it didn’t / doesn’t for everybody.
When MIDI came along, it was boring. Instruments came with. Played notes. I wanted to make my own and build it up because I was used to that.
Now I wouldn’t have the patience. But I did then. Saving these here because maybe some random FB searcher will find it.
Tie-in to Facebook :
There was a section about “uploading your music to Compuserve” which made me want a modem but in the early 80s, they were expensive and so was Compuserve]