MusikMesse 1985 - Live Audio Coverage

[dante]

A sneak preview from the upcoming 'ScopeRise Time Machine 85' series of audio recordings (November 2013 edition).

Frankfurt MusikMesse 1985. Nostalgic live coverage audio and demonstrations of the latest hi-tech device releases at the time from :

1) EMU Emulator 2
2) Yamaha TX816 + KX88 live demo by Dave Bristow
3) Roger Linn demo of the LINN9000
4) Casio - CZ101 - CZ1000
5) Sequential Multitrack
6) AKAI - S612 Sampler + VX90 + MX76

Hear them all here plus the surrounding hype.

https://soundcloud.com/hitfoundry/musik ... 985-part-1

Many chessy stabby demos - however I found Richard Young's 'SnowBlind' impressive.

[wouterz]

Amazing time machine

[dawman]

Indeed.
I had 2 of the 6 mentioned above and 120+ Floppies.
Great article.
We can see the trend of quality hardware (mostly smaller) making a comeback.
I wish Time Travel was possible with the gear I have now.
I could have made a fortune selling 1MB Double Sided FDDs of Solaris for the EII.

[SilverScoper]

Lol. Like the way the commentator treats everything so passe - like 'oh great sounding Emulator if you've got a few weeks to program it' and of Dave Bristow's monks and nuns TX816 demo - 'heady stuff but how about a bit of light relief now'.

Even in those days much was taken for granted.

[HUROLURA]

Just had one of these, the small and surprising CZ101, maybe one of my first real synthesizer ...
... and still have it, even after the CZ-OSC integration into Mod IV.

[jhulk]

still got a EII and EIII

still have the full EII library

and make new disks just did a melotron mark II flute for a member

something about 8bit accumulated to 12bits audio and real analog filters