EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> I started sequencing on an Atari with Emagic Notator.
> Anyone know what year that came out initially?

From Tweakheadz:

"Notator first arrived in the USA from Germany in the fall of 1988 with
version 1.12. This was a tremendous event for those who were trying to do
electronic music on computers. Notator was developed by a company named
C-LAB, which later became known as Emagic. Digidesign was their early US
distributor. There was also a version called Creator, that came out a year
or so earlier, that was the same as Notator without the notation editor.
Creator got rave reviews in the trade magazines and when Notator arrived it
quickly became the program to have according to the growing ranks of serious
MIDIphiles. It only took a few seconds to figure out why. Up till this
point, sequencers were crude and clumsy, or were esoteric and difficult to
navigate and had few if any graphics and didn't use the mouse. Notator was
like a dream come true in terms of ease of use. It had a clean "hi res."
paperwhite display, like the Mac, but larger, and its complex midi crunching
functions were non-destructive and a mere mouse click away! It was also
relatively expensive. Notator 1.12 had a suggested list price of $649, but I
don't know anyone who complained of the price."

Ben Hall
www.benhall.co.uk