My dad had a Prophet 2000 shortly before they were available to the public in 85, cost about $2k I think…it was the same technology but for consumers.
Recording samples was a single button push, every characteristic of any sound was infinitely mailable from reverb and attack and fade, sustain, tone, speed, looping, layering, etc. Not a professional unit like this one, lower fidelity, but affordable (by comparison) and comparable in features except the display. It also did MIDI. I have many memories of shoeboxes full of 3.5” “floppies” and way more dials than I knew how to use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet_2000

#18 (longest beard) 1.4 meters is not 18 feet, it's 4.6.

The editor is not musically inclined. They butchered Canon in D, and started the lyrical section of Jupiter with a horrible MIDI interpretation halfway through the second phrase.

However, there are a lot of cool photos in there.

Feels like I should be playing DooM...
Roland MIDI-esque

interesting perspective to talk about MIDI as this is a secondary implementation of it. some weird and inaccurate comments though like how "MIDI almost died off" (it didn't) or "MIDI is coming back, kind of, it might not be FM synth..." (MIDI and FM synthesis are completely different things).

But you can hear the sounds I mean be triggered starting at about 5:00 as he hits the midi-zylophone thing, then the sound is triggered again at 5:08 when he clearly didn't play them and a few times after that. Perhaps what I'm hearing isn't supposed to be percussion and is just the backup music synching with the percussion....but there are definitely kettle drum and other percussion sounds happening when he isn't hitting any drum.

he's midi triggering sounds so there's a disconnect between the type of sound you're expecting and the sound you're hearing. also possible there's millisecond delay from the samples and/or slight latency in the playback.

Spoiler: MIDI Fuzz guitars still sound like MIDI.

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Musical MIDI Art has been added as a related post - related requested by ant on that post.

Alone in the Dark 1 Long Play on PC DOS has been added as a related post - related requested by ant.

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What was amazing was the outdated polygon graphics, MIDI music, etc. that still scared us. I remember having a hard time in the attic. Its controls and camera views drove me crazy! Haha. I never actually got far too in the full game. Did you finish it?

FYI from many years ago on VS: http://videosift.com/video/Alone-In-The-Darks-First-SceneLevel-Walkthrough and http://videosift.com/video/Alone-in-the-Dark-1-Introduction-With-MIDI-Music

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Love that midi soundtrack.

Description (partial) from this yt video:
"This is Rima Baransi with her family in Trieste, Italy.
This is her father Assad Baransi recording the video and encouraging her to dance to the music. They were visiting the town as tourists.

The song being performed is entitled “Comptine D'un Autre Eté: l'Après Midi” by Yann Tiersen: https://youtu.be/W5_xFH5wqKM

English translation of what is said:

Dad: C'mon Rima! c'mon! Here I am filming, c'mon Rima for god's sake! For my sake! For my sake! C'mon start! [Do it!], C'mon Daddy (here its normal for the Dad to call his offspring "Dad", and the Mom calls them "Mom")"



i did find one video with her dancing. Start @2:40 https://youtu.be/dnfG75sRZXw

There is some noise in the YT as to whether it's a MIDI being played or not.. But it sounds like a fairground organ, and the punchcard tracks being fed into it as well as the organ action matches the song being played so... They have an uphill climb to convince me they did anything other than properly record the audio instead of using the microphone on the camera.