Hi Chris I seem to remember buying something called a "Digitiser" for the Commodore but, unfortunately, it was one of those things which were extremely graphical and there was only their own dedicated software which would work with their hardware. Later, I bought a hardware synthesiser for the BBC model B, but never really got much out of that because it required MIDI to use it properly and although there was an onscreen music template you could use, again it was very graphical.
After that I kind of dropped the idea of using the computer for music creation. The interest didn't die though and I bought a keyboard from Apple last year but again I am very disappointed in what I got. Granted it only cost me 80 quid, but I'd hoped I could get more out of it. Maybe it's me … but GarageBand doesn't seem to offer me what I was looking for. I haven't as yet figured out how, or even whether you can produce a guitar sound and drum sound without the actual instruments, if you see what I mean. I also haven't found any way to record, edit and mix multiple tracks. I'm pretty sure you can do it, it's just that I haven't been able too so far due to illness for much of the last 3-and-a-half years. But maybe I should look for another keyboard, only this time, one with its own synthesiser in hardware. I also need a sustain peddle if I'm going to go that route as a piano or other electric keyboard is a bit ugly unless you can control the sustain and decay when you're playing. Gordon On 31 May 2012, at 09:06, Chris Moore <[email protected]> wrote: The currah was a speech synth and spoke everything you typed and of course could be included within applications that supported it. From memory I think some text based adventures supported it. At the time I was sighted and had never heard of a screen reader. I was only 12 and quite immature I guess as myself and my friends would roll around laughing at hearing it swear. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
