From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #299 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Saturday, November 7 1998 Volume 03 : Number 299 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded [ljackson@nstar.net (Lee Jackson)] Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded ["Keith Stansell" ] Re: Alloy:1992 Keyboard/A&H [Chris Cracknell ] Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded [ljackson@nstar.net (Lee Jackson)] Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #298 [Applebabe2@aol.com] Alloy: David Bowie likes Dave's paintings! [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy:1992 Keyboard/A&H [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:23:32 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded In a message dated 11/6/98 12:47:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, habbinga@verinet.com writes: << Robin, I also have the Jan '92 keyboard issue. In fact, I also have the 85 (?) issue discussing AAMB. Here's a definition of some of the terms: PPG - one of Thomas' synthesizers. No longer in production, I believe. German origin, strange operating system/programming architecture (as I recall from a TMDR interview). Also used by Geddy Lee of Rush during the 80s. SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. In TMDR's context, it's an audio signal put onto tape that allows musical and video equipment (computers, other tape decks, VCRs) to play in synch with the tape deck. If you've ever seen footage on TV w/ advancing time in a black box, you're seeing SMPTE timecode. >> Thank you Erik! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 05:38:40 -0600 From: ljackson@nstar.net (Lee Jackson) Subject: Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:23:32 EST, you wrote: > SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. In > TMDR's context, it's an audio signal put onto tape that allows > musical and video equipment (computers, other tape decks, VCRs) > to play in synch with the tape deck. Bravo! I'm using SMPTE signals to synch the two studio computers to each other for my contribution to TFE this year. Don't know what I'd do without it. // Lee Jackson, Music and Sound Director // Apogee Software, Ltd. / 3D Realms Entertainment // http://www.3drealms.com // http://web.nstar.net/~ljackson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 07:09:06 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded Hey Lee, I've been seeing ads for a new Duke Nukem game. At the bottom of the ad is a "soundtrack available from ....records". So, being as you are all things audio at 3D-Realms, is this your album? - -Keith - -----Original Message----- From: Lee Jackson To: alloy@smoe.org Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 4:44 AM Subject: Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded > >On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:23:32 EST, you wrote: > >> SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. In >> TMDR's context, it's an audio signal put onto tape that allows >> musical and video equipment (computers, other tape decks, VCRs) >> to play in synch with the tape deck. > >Bravo! I'm using SMPTE signals to synch the two studio computers to each >other for my contribution to TFE this year. Don't know what I'd do without >it. > >// Lee Jackson, Music and Sound Director >// Apogee Software, Ltd. / 3D Realms Entertainment >// http://www.3drealms.com >// http://web.nstar.net/~ljackson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:21:34 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy:1992 Keyboard/A&H In article <003501be0916$7b7a5da0$139fedcc@default>, you wrote: >I don't know what a SMPTE is either and I own the same magazine! ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ SMPTE (pronounced Simp'-tee) is a type of MIDI time code used to syncronize assorted devices to a midi soundtrack. I used to know what the initials stood for but I don't now. I have that article and two other Thomas Dolby Keyboard articles. May '88 (Aliens) and March 95 (Mind's Eye). He's on the cover of all three issues. May'88 - Thomas is holding his Casio AX-1 strap-on (painted black and mirror spangled). He's wearing a grey shirt with a jungle-bird pattern on it and is doing an "arn't I cute" smile. (Sorry Thomas, but it really does make a person want to grab your cheeks and go "woogie woogie woogie" to you and I'm a red-blooded hetrosexual. And I'm talking about facial cheeks here people. I already know what Robin was thinking about grabbing!) Incidently Thomas, did you customize the AX-1 yourself or did someone do it for you? Do you still have the AX-1? I'd like to get a real strap-on someday instead of this crappy Yamaha one I bought for $15. I love customizing my keyboards too. I spounge painted my Hohner Pianet-T and have done the coolest keyboard customizing (IMHO) ever to my casio SK-1 (I paid $200 for this puppy when it first came out! An 8-bit sampler for under $1000 was unheard of at the time. You can find them at garage sales for $10 or less now) and hacked those dinky mini-keys off it and gave it a full sized keyboard. I want to do the famous MIDI-IN hack to it someday (although I'll probably do it to another SK-1 and perform a rack-hack to it at the same time). For the curious out there pictures of these customized keyboards are on my webpage. (There's also a picture of my K-9 robot I had previously mentioned) Jan'92 - He's bald, is wearing round framed sunglasses partway down his nose so he looks over the top of them. He has a more serious expresion on his face and his hands folded in his lap. The camera is looking down on him from a higher than eye level angle and is using a wide angle lense to do a close up on his face (This creates the illusion that his nose is larger than it is). The background is dark but there's a Mac keyboard to his left. He's wearing a jacket which I can only assume one day he'll look back at this photo and think "Strange, I don't recall playing any kid's birthday parties." Have you returned that jacket to Paul Shaffer yet? (I tease because I love you) Mar'95 - He's infront of a fake city scape (maybe taken from Mind's Eye). he's wearing a toque (eh) and has a goutie and leather jacket. He's got his arms folded across his chest and if it wern't for the fact that he still has a sweet boyish face you wouldn't want to see this guy hanging around your ATM late at night. I think this is one of the last keyboard magazines I ever bought. I switched from being a keyboardist to accordionist around that time and never regretted dropping my subscription to that magazine. It was depressing the hell out of me to see all that neat stuff each month that I had no hope in hell of being able to afford. Yep sometimes desire really can be the root of suffering. There is one other Keyboard magazine that I know of that has done a full feature article on Thomas and it's older than the '88 one. I don't know what it talks about and I don't know if Thomas was featured on the cover. I've seached high and low for a copy with no luck (Keyboard ran out of back issues long ago). I suppose someday Keyboard (and all magazines) will release collections of back issues scanned and saved to CD-ROM and I'll get one then. Do you remember what that issue was about Thomas? CRACKERS (Brief synopsis from hell!!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:08:37 -0600 From: ljackson@nstar.net (Lee Jackson) Subject: Re: Alloy: SMPTE decoded On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 07:09:06 -0700, you wrote: >I've been seeing ads for a new Duke Nukem game. At the bottom of the ad is >a "soundtrack available from ....records". > >So, being as you are all things audio at 3D-Realms, is this your album? No. The game they're hyping right now is called "Duke Nukem: Time to Kill", and was made for the Playstation. This was created by an outside team (N-Space, I think) that licensed the character, and not by us here at 3D Realms. I processed the voice files that are used in this game, but I didn't do music since they had their own deal set up for music. // Lee Jackson (ljackson@nstar.net) // Music and Sound Director // Apogee Software, Ltd. & 3D Realms Entertainment ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:15:00 EST From: Applebabe2@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V3 #298 Hello from apple country! I just got "The Gate to the Mind's Eye" in the mail. This is such a fantastic video! My children love it too, My 11 year old daughter is going to bring it in to her 6th grade art teacher to see if they can watch it in class. He already has the first two, but not this one and can't wait to see it. I recommend picking up a copy! For anyone who has seen it.... they already know that it is a real treat for the eye, eye, eye, eyes!!!!!! Take care all!! Stacey ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:17:41 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: David Bowie likes Dave's paintings! It's true!! he says so! A friend has just brought it to our attention that Mr. Bowie mentions my husband's web page favorably in his personal on-line journal at BowieNet :) Our friend was mad that we didn't tell her... but we didn't know til she told us... Based on what he saw of the page, David Bowie thinks Dave and I are brother & sister. I don't know if we should tell him we're married or not... I think it's really sweet that he thought we were siblings! Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:20:44 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy:1992 Keyboard/A&H In a message dated 11/6/98 1:28:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, crackers@hwcn.org writes: << I have that article and two other Thomas Dolby Keyboard articles. May '88 (Aliens) and March 95 (Mind's Eye).>> Could you possibly scan these covers & e-mail them in my direction sometime? I'd love to see them! :) Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #299 ***************************