{"id":70,"date":"2010-04-24T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/?p=70"},"modified":"2010-04-24T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:46:10","slug":"memories-of-opcode-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2010\/04\/memories-of-opcode-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Opcode Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/opcode4.jpg\" alt=\"Opcode Vision\" title=\"Opcode Vision\" width=\"195\" height=\"185\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/opcode4.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/opcode4-150x142.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>I&#8217;ve just been reading the woefully scant stub of an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opcode_Systems\">article on Wikipedia about Opcode Vision<\/a>.  Vision, and later StudioVision Pro, was the software platform I used to record, sequence, edit, and generally manage the musical performances in <em>Gravitas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson, the guitar people, bought Opcode in 1998, and killed it in 1999. I&#8217;ve no idea why, but a lot of people were upset, including me. There&#8217;s still a fair bit of Opcode nostalgia out there, and maybe even some lingering resentment towards Gibson. Mostly from me. Bastards. (Not being a guitarist, it&#8217;s been easier for me to hold that particular grudge&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Things really got interesting for me from a sound design perspective when I made the move to StudioVision, &#8220;the first-ever commercially available product integrating MIDI sequencing and digital audio editing and recording on a personal computer.&#8221; I used to be bleeding edge, apparently. <\/p>\n<p>This is what enabled me to integrate small audio clips of either sound effects or musical performances (usually quite short, for computer performance reasons) into the traditional MIDI environment.<\/p>\n<p>Combining MIDI data and audio is exactly analogous to combining, in the DTP world, text and pictures.  It really changes the landscape&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The article also reminded me that Vision was the platform of choice for &#8220;electronic music pioneers such as Herbie Hancock, Wendy Carlos, Thomas Dolby, and others.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>So I was in good company! You know, in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been reading the woefully scant stub of an article on Wikipedia about Opcode Vision. Vision, and later StudioVision Pro, was the software platform I used to record, sequence, edit, and generally manage the musical performances in Gravitas. Gibson, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2010\/04\/memories-of-opcode-vision\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}