From - Sat Sep 6 19:42:06 1997 Path: netaxs.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!athena.ulaval.ca!hermes.ulaval.ca!aac794 From: MATHIEU CHENARD Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: ANN: music CD produced with IIgs... Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 14:48:30 -0400 Organization: Universite Laval Lines: 50 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: hermes.ulaval.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Sender: aac794@hermes.ulaval.ca Xref: netaxs.com comp.sys.apple2:121935 I released a home-produced music compact disc in June. It's my first disc and I wanted to do it myself... I'm a canadian (Rimouski, Quebec) dental student graduating in some months, but I play the guitar, harmonica, keyboard and some others instruments, including my voice! I purchased my IIgs some years ago because I was impressed by his audio features. I add a Sequential Systems 4 Mo RAM GS board, an Apple SCSI card rev C, some hard drives and a floptical drive in the last years. So I got on my IIgs some months ago to put down synth tracks of the orchestration: drums, percussions, bass, strings, keyboards, flutes, etc. I used mainly Olivier Goguel's NoiseTracker 1.0 with AE AudioAnimator for playing sampled sounds plus stereo-ready accompaniement tracks and System 6's synthLab with Opcode Studio+2 MIDI interface for controlling my entry-level Kaway MS710 keyboard-sound module (with the help of my Newton MessagePad 2000 using MIDI-X for a track modified at last time.) These stereo-ready tracks were then put on a digital audio tape. I then add accoustic instruments (Citation accoustic guitar, Cort Effector electric guitar with DOD FX53 effect pedal, Tower Harmonica, Casio DG-10 digital guitar) and voice tracks (dubbed for chorus or using Digitech Vocalist for harmony) within 3 evenings in a traditionnal recording studio located in Universite Laval, Quebec, with the help of a sound technician. We did the final mix on the third evening from the 8-tracks ADAT to the final master dat (according to notes taken on MessagePad and then used to print the time log on paper for the press plant.) The lyrics were captured and formatted using the Newton MessagePad, Teach, Hermes and AppleWorks GS, but the final full-color page layout was made by my brother on a Mac Performa 5200 with ClarisWorks (the photographs were scanned on a Mac 7200 and Agfa Arcus II flatbed scanner using Photoshop, the only expensive products borrowed for this project!!!) 1000 discs were then pressed by Disque Americ with booklets printed by Graphiscan Quebec. This was really an exciting project for me and I found it so cool that I'm planning another recording in the next months! It also the proof that it's possible to do interesting things with Apple II and others Apple products, and with a really small budget... Apple II forever! /V|athieu __ ___schema@car.qc.ca _____aac794@agora.ulaval.ca _______olalema! Apple II infinewton!!! _________réalisé avec un fidèle Apple IIgs de 10 ans