This was ridiculously advanced. This piece is still used on many films/albums to this day. Floored at the sample rate capability for the time it was produced. Kyma’s capability compared to this is different, yet comparable in a different realm; Kyma’s also a steal, comparatively.
The software is so comprehensive there's not a huge difference compared to modern systems. Is just that is slow and the screen is green and has only a few pixels. Lovely. :)
Depends. Once the Atari ST came out in 85 you could sequence much cheaper in conjunction with Akai samplers and MIDI. Also the Fairlight could do the same and the DX7 had FM synthesis. This machine however was unique in all aspects until that time.
Skywalker sound use this beast for Toy Story and also Jurrasic Park sound design, also the Japanese animated feature Akira soundesign was using it, but very few musician used it, only Frank Zappa and also guy like Didier Lockwood, the Fairlight or Emulator II where more used in pop music, also Linndrum or SP 1200 from EMU, the end of the 80's see more stuff made with Akai sampler.
😂 This was the early 80’s computer hardware was very expensive and not many people even had access to that hardware let alone have someone to put it all together. We now laugh at this stuff but we lost all our creativity due to having too much more than what we need!!!
Hi, some are stil used today by professionals in the music and sound design industry. Nothing can beat the ergonomic of the VPK, such a great product !
@@llemaire1 Yes the issue is only a few people now are using them due to the cost of servicing them and available parts. Mass produced components these days are not the same as they were decades ago with little variances that gave them their own life. Creativity is based on the max hardware you have available, when you have the world in your hands all the little spots are not seen, this is why with all the tech available today we are basically sampling 1970's and 1980's synths. We have become a disposable society and this leads to inferior products including vehicles, houses, computer hardware, musical instruments ( acoustic guitars atrocious in 2024), barely any synths made these days with a new sound or character. We have reached the end of the line in product development which is what is leading to this stagnation in the Movie and Music industry. It is so bad that I can predict 2 seconds before any interview cut, background blur shot occurs before they even switch to it on television interview segments. In fact it is so predictable that I can watch a 15 minute interview interview and predict every single full blur, half blur or camera switch motorized pan, dual shot prior to the cuts. This is why I stopped watching the news, tv shows it became a bokeh loaded festival with idiotic blurring of backgrounds thus taking you away from the full scene, making it very boring to watch.
Wow -- the Winchester system allows a "much larger" storage capacity, from 10 to 40 MB. As I sit down in front of my PC with 14TB of storage space . . .
That was huge then. My first PC from '89 had a 40 megabyte hard drive, and that was considered pretty large then, almost a decade later than from the synclavier.
and you're right... appart the "Polyphonic Sampling" chapter, all the videos were done using later version of the Synclavier II, with MIDI, Sample-to-Disk, VPK, etc...
There was an Apple promotional video for their older SE computers used for MIDI-recording, it featured a bunch of artists and the narrator for that video sounds just like the one here... perhap watch and give your opinion? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7sACo5QntGc.html
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