Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invested $25,000 of his parents' savings with Saxon. He was seeking advice from the office of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. A New Jersey caller reported buying $250,000 worth of gold from Saxon. Declared one weary investigator: "Many of these people even sound well educated and experienced...
...versions to come), the joy stick controls a movable hand on the video screen that picks up notes, sharps, clef signs and other music symbols, and sets them down on a staff. At any time, the computer will play them back so the user can hear how they sound. Up to 1,400 symbols can be displayed on two staffs, from whole notes to 1/32 notes, from simple melodies to six-voice chords...
Harvey's 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...
...without its flaws. To improve on the tinny speaker that comes installed in an Apple, users must invest an additional $100 for a plug-in sound-effects generator called a Mockingboard. (The Atari and Commodore versions will play three and four voices without any additional equipment.) Serious composers will find that the program's 1,400-symbol capacity allows them to write only about 70 measures at a time, requiring them to print out long pieces in sections. Moreover, using the program at full capacity causes the tempo of the machine to slow down, while short pieces whip...
...Olympic Games had been seeking, his Olympic background consisted of an unsuccessful tryout for the U.S. water polo team in 1956 (Melbourne). During the Montreal Games in 1976, nearly cornered into observing his own family decree against summer television, Ueberroth had viewed the competition nightly with the sound turned down low in the darkened room of an elderly neighbor lady who was trying to sleep. He was such an unlikely proprietor of the Games that his reaction to the first feeler was laughter. He said...