Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
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Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#2The NeXTcube is an influential machine in computing history. The NeXTcube, with an additional soundcard, was also one of the first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications. Here a restored NeXTcube runs an early version of MAX, an environment for interactive music applications.
Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#3The NeXTcube is an influential machine in computing history. The NeXTcube, with an additional soundcard, was also one of the first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications. Here a restored NeXTcube runs an early version of MAX, an environment for interactive music applications.
Hey FooGPT, don't you know that the Commodore and Atari machines were far more influential as platforms for realtime music applications, given that they sold probably two orders of magnitude more than the NeXTcube ever did, and had their own DSP processor for audio generation some years before the NeXTcube was even a concept?
Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#4The NeXTcube is an influential machine in computing history. The NeXTcube, with an additional soundcard, was also one of the first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications. Here a restored NeXTcube runs an early version of MAX, an environment for interactive music applications.
> first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications
No love for Fairlight?
Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#5The NeXTcube is an influential machine in computing history. The NeXTcube, with an additional soundcard, was also one of the first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications. Here a restored NeXTcube runs an early version of MAX, an environment for interactive music applications.
Hey FooGPT, don't you know that the Commodore and Atari machines were far more influential as platforms for realtime music applications, given that they sold probably two orders of magnitude more than the NeXTcube ever did, and had their own DSP processor for audio generation some years before the NeXTcube was even a concept?
I think you're replying to the author of the linked article, and the comment appears to be a gentle rewording of the intro paragraph.
Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey FooGPT, don't you know that the Commodore and Atari machines were far more influential as platforms for realtime music applications, given that they sold probably two orders of magnitude more than the NeXTcube ever did, and had their own DSP processor for audio generation some years before the NeXTcube was even a concept?
I think you're replying to the author of the linked article, and the comment appears to be a gentle rewording of the intro paragraph.
The page seemed to be inaccessible from here, so I could not tell.
Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#7Speaking of early music workstations, I've heard that the inventor of FM synthesis John Chowning used Lisp machines, and his work evolved into this: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/
Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#8The NeXTcube is an influential machine in computing history. The NeXTcube, with an additional soundcard, was also one of the first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications. Here a restored NeXTcube runs an early version of MAX, an environment for interactive music applications.
Hey FooGPT, don't you know that the Commodore and Atari machines were far more influential as platforms for realtime music applications, given that they sold probably two orders of magnitude more than the NeXTcube ever did, and had their own DSP processor for audio generation some years before the NeXTcube was even a concept?
Atari was used a lot by electronic musicians for sequencing because of its built-in MIDI ports. Amiga was popular with the tracking scene.
Not influencial in the way the Cube is described here, as the platforms were a class of apps was developed in, more used practical applications.
Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#9The NeXTcube is an influential machine in computing history. The NeXTcube, with an additional soundcard, was also one of the first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications. Here a restored NeXTcube runs an early version of MAX, an environment for interactive music applications.
> first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications No love for Fairlight?
Well, the Fairlight wasn't exactly for the general market, as it cost as much as a house (and people like Gabriel had custom ones built, and hired assistants to operate them).
Re: Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications No love for Fairlight?
Well, the Fairlight wasn't exactly for the general market, as it cost as much as a house (and people like Gabriel had custom ones built, and hired assistants to operate them).
Fair, but in truth the NeXTcube was not a layman's product either. With a realtime sound card and proper DAC setup you'd easily run over $10,000, which is "affordable" in the same way later CMI models "only" cost as much as a car.
I'm not so much griping at the idea of characterizing it as a media machine, but one of the first? It's not even one of the first digital multitrack recorders.