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[Musings of a Chicagoan] links for 2005-05-30: “The Mac is the business guy in the tailored suit, a professional but he doesn’t come cheap. He isn’t really any better than anyone else, but he looks the part. He’s pleasant to be around and if experience matters more to you than money, he’s your man.”

 [hepnar.org] The Mac Startup Sound: "The startup sound was done in my home studio on a Korg Wavestation. It's a C Major chord, played with both hands stretched out as wide as possible (with 3rd at the top, if I recall). This just sounded right to me. I wanted something really fat, heavy bass, high notes, and a sharp attack.

 [[blog.forret.com] - music media IT technology belgium podcast brussels] Genesis of some famous sounds: Walter is a big synth collector (he says he hasn't got 'all of them'). For the Intel sound he used 40+ layers, including a DX7, Oberheim OBX, Prophet VS, Emulator IIIx, Roland S760 and his beloved Jupiter 8, which was the first synth he ever bought. He used lots of marimba and xylophone sounds because they 'sound corporate'.

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] History Behind the Mac Startup Sound: Some Mac's had different "Sad Mac" sounds, I remember my old Mac IIfx used to sound like "breaking glass" when it wan't happy. I seem to recall another mac having the sound of screeching tyres followed by a smashing sound, but it was so long ago I'm not sure if that was real or just my imagination. Anyone out there know for sure?

[Zeus Comics Blogger] The Mac Sound: Music Thing has been posting deligh...: Music Thing has been posting delightful little vignettes about all the exciting computer sounds that we all know and love. Did you know that the Intel Inside jingle was written by someone who didn't really use computers? And that the Mac start-up sound was actually a recording of Steve Job's ego expanding and contracting over a Corona bottle?

[Smgk.blogspot.com] Sean Malone || Gordian Knot: Music theory is a generic title used for every kind of music, though this book fo-cuses on the traditions and practices of Western tonal harmony, (from about 1650 to 1900) responsible for most of the music we hear all around us. What does ”˜tonal’ mean, and what are the characteristics of ”˜tonality?’ The vast majority of music that we hear all around us utilizes a pitch center, something that focuses our attention to a particular pitch as being “most important.” The pitch center generates a ”˜tonal field’ - levels of varying influence - organizing the other pitches around it; some notes feel as if they must move, others feel they should stay put, all in relationship to the pitch center.

 [Members.shaw.ca] My OS X Programming Blog: I adapted some code I wrote earlier to write the bass lines generated by my program to MIDI files. I’ll work on fine-tuning and improving the algorithm next and I find it much easy to listen to the output instead of look at it (here’s an example). Another advantage of having MIDI files is they can be imported into a program like Finale, and the bass line can be viewed in standard notation (here’s an example; the chord names were entered by hand at this time).

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