> From: "Ben Hall" <benj@...>
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:08:30 -0000
> To: <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [exs] Re: OT C64 was : wav to aiff converter
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>> I started sequencing on an Atari with Emagic Notator.
>> Anyone know what year that came out initially?
>
>> From Tweakheadz:
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> "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
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