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...hand dispenses sturdy advice to keyboard novices...
...becoming increasingly literate. No longer do they require a graduate course in electronics to be understood. Few, however, make a pretense of being much more than manuals. They are aimed mostly at guiding potential buyers through the aisles of computer stores or piloting novice users around the new keyboard...
Because of his experience, richton found himself a growing source of advice and information for friends who wanted assistance with their new Apples and Commodores. He claims that he produced the book so that he would no longer feel like the "help" button on a computer keyboard...
...program is not the first to take advantage of the microcomputer's power to create and store synthesized sound. There are at least a dozen similar products on the market, from Apple's $45 Musicomp, to alphaSyntauri's $1,995 Computer Music System, which includes full keyboard, 3,000-note memory and 16-track recording system. But no other low-cost music program makes it so easy to do so much. The key to the software's success is what the industry calls its "user interface." It avoids computerese and makes notation as simple and transparent...
...says, is the one he has aspired to ever since adolescence, when he sat transfixed by a BBC radio broadcast of Debussy's L 'Après-Midi d'un Fanne: composing. With little outside encouragement, young Burgess taught himself music, beginning with the piano keyboard. "Find middle C," he maintains, "and you have found everything." At 20 he had written his first symphony. By the time of his erroneous death sentence he had, while supporting himself as a teacher, produced a catalogue of 65 mostly unplayed works...