We're professionals. We're entrepreneurs. We quit our real jobs. We have our own company. It's called Cyan.
Cyan.
What a cool name. We thought of that name ourselves. It doesn't really mean anything to us personally, but man, is that a cool name or what?
We also have Macs. Our Macs are cool too. We do things on our Macs we used to only dream about. We do graphics; we do animation; we do code; we do music. Some people call those things multimedia, and we'll call it that too if it makes us sound more professional.
Cyan actually started out by creating some Desktop Worlds (hey, we coined that one). The first one was the Manhole, and after that came Cosmic Osmo. We decided to make Cosmic Osmo bigger and better, and we ended up with something so big that we could either fit it on 179 floppies or on one CD-ROM. We picked the CD-ROM.
So that leads us to our point. This CD-ROM has got a few of the songs we did for our CD-ROM version of Cosmic Osmo. We used our Macs. We also used some awesome equipment and software to help our Macs get the job done. First we discovered MIDI. We composed and sequenced the songs using Master Tracks Pro. We used a Yamaha Clavinova as our MIDI keyboard, and got a whole slew of incredible sounds out of a little MIDI module called the Roland U-110. We completed all the songs, stuck 'em on a diskette and headed for Hidden Forest Studios in Longview, Texas (in the legendary Piney-woods area of deep East Texas).
Now it just so happens that Hidden Forest Studios has Macs too. So we stuck our diskette into their Mac, and suddenly we had a whole studio at our disposal. We clicked here and double-clicked there and moved sounds from one module to another until things sounded tight. With the addition of some live instruments our studio work was complete.
We sampled the completed music into our Cosmic Osmo stack using Farallon's MacRecorder and coded things appropriately. Now, when you tune the radio that you just built on the fourth floor of the science planet, you might just hear the flighty rifts of Dancing Beetle. Or when you climb to the highest tower of Queen Osmorella's castle on the urban planet you'll hear the echoing chords of Tower Mist. In addition, the songs are included on audio tracks of the Cosmic Osmo CD-ROM (so you can crank 'em out on your mega-stereo in the den).
Cyan is Robyn Miller and Rand Miller (we're brothers). Cyan is located in Spokane, Washington (capitol of the legendary Inland Empire of the Pacific Northwest). AppleLink us any time at CYAN.
