I never forget back in the 1980's. I was just 11 years when saw a beautiful pic of a Compact Disc and the laser from a magazine's ad. I learned that it was the latest technology innovation at that time. I ripped it from the mag and placed on my room's wall, at the side of my bed.
Wondered how it sounds, how looks like and if I could have one in the future. That was my childhood dream. Got my first CD in 1988, and got my first CD player at 1992. #MusicLover#CompactDisc#DigitalAudio
This ended up in my feed, and I've heard it and many like it before, but I'm always overwhelmed by things like this because, combined, the individual tracks, warts and all, create this incredible, enduring work of art.
No save/save as. No grid. No copy/paste. No "undo" button. No auto tune. No beat detective. No plugins. Etc.
Editing decisions final.
Good lord.
Deconstructing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Isolated Tracks)
In the early 80s, you could buy a text to speech hardware module (around $200-300) for your computer, or you could buy a software only solution. The S.A.M. cost $59.95 for the software. There was a version for Apple II that also included an 8 bit DAC card, for $124.95 total. This was sold by Don't Ask Computer Software and advertised here in Antic magazine, a special edition on sound and music from October 1982.
It's amazing what producers and engineers in the #1980s were able to get out of what is in retrospect extremely rudimentary digital audio processing technology, and "that #80s sound" is still being emulated in #audio plugins today.