Frown or smiley is what we would do lol always have someone fiddling with it as soon as they came into the room…
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I got a similar model late in 80s
Used to tape Pete Tong 89 - 91 & then edit down to just the tracks religiously
Until all the buttons broke
It had a CD so must be later, I owned v few CDs but did have the Black Box album
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Ah yes the classic midi hi fi. I had a Saisho one.
My first (ahem) music studio was my midi hi fi and this- the mighty Yamaha pss 680:
I used to record drums for a few mins and then overdub synths one at a time live using two cassettes, swapping them between the Hi fi and a separate crappy tape deck so you’d end up with a tune of sorts, buried between 5 or six generations of tape hiss after every overdub
Fucking hilarious but 15 yr old me thought I was the bollocks… this was the precursor to the mighty octamed on an Amiga with an 8 bit sampler which doubtless was many people’s intro to making electronic music late eighties early nineties, Plaid used it on their early stuff iirc
Sorry for the rambling post you took me back a minute there x
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Loading something into a ZX81 computer using a tape player. You had to get the volume just right.
Screen looking like this.
And the noise it made!
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ZX Spectrum 48k for me
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Syntax error… after 1hr 45mins of hideous tape loading noise.
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10goto20
20goto30
30goto40
and so on for about five hours… just to draw a triangle
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Tape? You had it lucky, used to type the code in from magazines, one tiny error could scupper everything. No idea how I had the patience, can’t even wait for a YT ad to play these days.
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That was basically a super computer compared to the zx81!
After the Zx81 we had an Acorn something. Like a shit version of the BBC Micro we had at school.
My kids can’t believe my primary school had 1 computer!
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OMG - those codes!
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Kid at primary school returned to UK after living in California for several years. His bmx and Nike trainers were like something from Mars in what was probably 1981 /1982.
He had an Atari with loads of games.
Mind. Blown.
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In the manual of the ZX81 they had this Monopoly Game you could type in and I spent ages typing it all in… Pressed GO and nada… Nothing That was pretty much the end of my coding career…
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My grandfather brought one back with him from a trip - Skeet and Pong.
Had to go to Wales to play out though…
And it’s a rotary
Way better than the ones with faders!
Edit: clearly switches my bad…
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Mr Scruff talks about both those processes in a link on the What Are you Youtubing thread - let me dig it out…
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Octomed software (on a single floppy!) and some of my tunes, quite curious to get a reader and see what these sound like in 2024!
Remember my Dad trying to load a chess game on the ZX81 and tearing his hair out when the slightest jog wiped everything. Halcyon days
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Funnily enough I watched that last week- love it -plus howler’s mention of pause button tapes… necessity being the mother of invention and all that-
Problem for me with software nowadays is myriad choices in stark contrast to those days…
Gritty!
Lot to be said for 8 bit drums mind, the irony of people spending money to achieve that sound itb via software not lost on many of us no doubt
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