On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 04:53:19AM -0400, MJMahon@xxxxxxx wrote:
Several folks in the Apple II community have suggested that
I should enter CrateSynth in the music category.
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What's your thinking?
I'm thinking that the results of your project are very impressive.
(For those who don't know about it, look here for CrateSynth and
the AppleCrate:
http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
I will suggest entering it into the music competition, creating
explanatory notes so that the judges can decide for themself. This
could be something like what you already have on your website, but
perhaps a bit more detailed for the non-Apple II users (possibly
including samples of "typical" Apple II sound), and a bit more
condensed in the development process (I'm sure that Cory would take
submissions for MLAgazine if you wanted to write about how CrateSynth
was developed). It would be best if you recorded another tune,
just so that you can say that you kept the relevant bits in the
competition period.
A couple of ideas for *next year*: a hardware hack category.
Something like your NadaNet is quite interesting, and it deserves
as much recognition as it can get. Open the hardware and program
category to be anything developed over the last year. I realise
that it is a bit much to put developers on the spot like this.
Byron.
