Micro-5K

Willkommen in den 1980er Jahren

Willkommen in den 1980er Jahren: Eine neue Ära der erschwinglichen digitalen Technologien....

MICRO-5K ist in gewisser Weise ein Tribut an eine Ära, in der zwei immer erschwinglichere Technologien zusammenkommen, um etwas ganz Besonderes zu schaffen - nämlich computergesteuerte digitale Synthese...

Die frühen 1980er Jahre waren eine Zeit, in der die meisten professionellen Computer und elektronischen Instrumente weit außerhalb der finanziellen Möglichkeiten des Normalbürgers oder sogar der meisten Bildungseinrichtungen lagen, und dennoch gelang es einigen sehr cleveren Menschen, einen Weg zu finden, manchmal überraschend brauchbare Systeme zu erschwinglichen Preisen zu liefern.

Weitere Details in englischer Sprache:

In the UK two companies famously went on to dominate the race to produce affordable home and educational computing systems namely Sinclair Research and Acorn Computers. The head to head battle to gain market dominance for home computer supremacy in the 1980s was dramatised in the 2009 film Micro Men (BBC Four) documenting the sometimes intense rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair (played by Alexander Armstrong) and Chris Curry (Martin Freeman).

The BBC Micro eventually won out as being the educational computer of choice in the UK with over 1.5 million sold into schools, colleges and university research labs. Both the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro spawned what became a whole generation of home computer “bedroom coders” who went on to form the very foundation of the modern computer game industry. The UK’s contribution to what is now one of the biggest industries in the world cannot be underestimated.

What also cannot be ignored is that one of the BBC Micro’s key designers was Sophie Wilson, the very same legendary genius who co-designed the ARM Processor (originally standing for Acorn RISC Machine), which went on from its humble yet ground breaking roots in the 1987 32-bit Acorn Archimedes desktop computer to eventually finding its way into almost every mobile phone on the planet!

The BBC Micro was unusually well endowed with expansion ports and turned out to be the perfect host for a plethora of add-on peripherals. This included Hybrid Technology Ltd’s Music 500 system which was initially branded as an Acorn product but eventually became the Hybrid Music 5000 system following a major update to the software supporting the synth module.

Overview

• 595 24-bit Samples

• 100 Example Instruments

• 25 Layered-Multis

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