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NEOPHYTE.DOC October 25, 1994
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GENERAL INFO
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Well, welcome to our first musicdisk, SOLSTICE! It's been a looong time
since this started. Well, first, it began with the release of Scream
Tracker 3 in April. 'Course that took quite a while to figure out and
coming straight from the MIDI world and generic keyboard playing, this
took quite a bit of getting used to.
Needless to say, I've been inspired by a LOT of folks out there.. so I
decided to give it a shot myself. After quite a few failures (yeah .. I
can write worse music.. ;-) I first came out with Tinker Tantrum. That
song, believe it or not, became the last one to be completed for this
musicdisk.
Sometime in July I was introduced to Daedalus .. a "friend of a friend."
Turns out he had been writing 4-track MODs since January .. never played
an instrument in his life. I heard some of his work and was amazed.
I got him hooked on ST3 and soon he was into a whole new world...
We continued writing songs until my "collection" of S3Ms (after writing so
many and collecting others) grew to about 120 megs.. then decided it was
about time to put this to good use.... so this musicdisk was conceived.
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MEMBER LIST
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Malcolm "Malakai" Ramsay - Organizer, Musician, Slave driver
mram@archives.com
Brian "Daedalus" Bennetts - Musician, Student (yes, he retains knowledge!)
hbthe005@huey.csun.edu
E.J. "Phurion" James - Musician, ex-boss (heh heh)
ejames@archives.com
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SONG INFO
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All of us have a soundblaster of some kind -- Phurion and Daedalus have the
SB16, and I have the entire line of SB's as well as the Ultrasound MAX. I
have to say, I've been trying to get 'em to buy one of the MAX's for this--
if you (the reader) really like this kind of music, really the GUS is for
you. If you don't have one, and you're listening to these songs (and
others), the SB doesn't have as good of stereo capabilities as the GUS, so
as a side note, if you have a SB card, you might want to toggle off Stereo
mode on these songs while they are playing. To do this, hit "S" from the
play screen while the songs are going.
However, I will say in defense of the AWE32, that I really prefer the AWE's
midi implementation and expandability and sound quality over the GUS.
But then that's just my opinion... :-)
During the course of writing these songs, none of us had a really good
setup for creating/acquiring our own samples, and I'd like to say a
general apology and thanks to all of those who we ripped our samples from.
We did have a few originals (they popped in for the last few songs) but on
the most part they are not. We are sorry.
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OTHER INFO
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To contact us, write to our individual internet addresses above, or for any
group-related info, please write to neophyte@archives.com.
Currently we are acquiring new keyboards and also we are looking for good
samplers .. and (of course) writing new songs.. we've got about 10 more
songs "under wraps" and believe me if you remotely liked what you heard here
you'll like what's coming. This collection was merely all the stuff that
was completed since ST3 came out. We really hate finishing pieces ..
it's kinda hard to say "it's done." (no wait -- there's more I can put in,
really -- I heard a blank spot in there!!!)
Also, we are not just writers .. we really REALLY like listening to all the
musicians out there in this scene who are infinitely more experienced than
we are. GODS, they are! :-)
And, hey! ST3 works under OS/2 Warp! <YEAH!!!> Now I can keep my bbs up
while I tinker...
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CLOSING WORDS
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Until next time, I hope you enjoy listening to these tunes. We got more
coming.