Retrocomputing Archaeology Series: The Atari Music Composer Cartridge: In Context
39In this video of the #Retrocomputing #Archaeology Series, we explore the #Atari #Music #Composer, a cartridge available at the launch of the #Atari 400 and 800 systems, in 1979. We go through the process of transcribing Bach's Invention #8 in F.
Index:
00:00 Introduction
02:45 Making our data floppy.
05:00 Setting Time and Key signatures
07:24 Editing Phrase 1 (Right Hand)
21:45 Listening to the first page
23:15 Continuing on editing Phrase 1
36:51 Listening to the complete first phrase
38:00 Editing Phrase 2 (Left Hand)
40:25 Editing Phrases 3 and 4 (the final chord)
44:00 Listening to the final result.
45:07 Saving to disk
Because of limitations in POKEY and Music Composer, some of the notes in the left hand had to be omitted, replaced with rests.
The Music Composer ROM can be found here:
http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-music-composer_15784.html
The manual for The Music Composer can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/MusicComposerAtari/mode/2up