Dr. T's KCS
Hi Don,
Thanks for your message.
I think you should put this message on the forum. It's a nice story I
wasn't aware off. (before my time).
And yes, sometimes we shouldn't reinvent the wheel but just to in the
past and inherit the what has been made before. Or as the Romans said:
imitatio et aemulatio.
All the best,
Thomas
xavierjazz@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n9/drt.html
>
> This link will take you to information about the Environment "KCS" and
> it's developer.
>
> I used this environment in the late '80s to write my music instruction
> book.
> It was on an Atari STe. It is available freely on the net, but needs
> to be emulated. Steem is the emulator I have, but I feel so insecure
> about my computer knowledge, and I am now focused primarily on writing
> and arranging that I have not yet set it up.
>
> I strongly urge someone there on the development team to take a look
> at it. The notation program that I used which was usable in this
> environment was The Copyist ll.
>
> It is brilliant, in many ways far beyond what is offered today.
>
> I have sent notice of this to David Bolton, but am unable to send to
> Lasconic or Werner.
>
> It's truly fantastic.
>
> Thanks for all your work.
>
> Warm regards,
> Don Naduriak
Comments
Are you talking about this software?
http://tamw.atari-users.net/copyist.htm
In reply to Are you talking about this by [DELETED] 5
Copyist is the notation part of the environment and Dr. T's KCS was a fantastic sequencer environment. It ran on the Atari STe.
In the '90s I used Copyist ll with KCS and Calamus to self-publish an instructional book for keyboard players on how to play Afro-Cuban piano and bass.
I was able to play the studies in, in real time, separate the hands (with a few notes to be moved) and save that. Then I could take a copy of the file and quantize it so that the notation was basically there. That was then exported into Copyist. Fingerings and changes were added in Calamus via dragging self-designed bitmaps to the appropriate positions and there was very little in the way of articulation.
The environment was, and as far as I can tell, still is, fantastic. The ability to massage data in the sequencer is still not approached, as far as I know. Among many devices, it uses algorhythmic devices. "Fingers" is an offshoot by Dr. T.
Dr. Tobenfeld was fantastic (and, I hope, still is).
To summarize:
Atari Emulator (I have Steem).
TOS (freely available)
KCS (freely available)
Copyist (as far as I know, not so freely available. I bought it many years ago. ( With gratitude to Chris Sion.)
This piece of software was brilliant.
I urge you to check it out..
Regards.