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Software => Vintage Software => Atari ST => Topic started by: chrisNova777 on December 30, 2015, 12:18:46 PM
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http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Dr._T%27s_KCS
http://tamw.atari-users.net/omega.htm
http://tamw.exxoshost.co.uk/omega.htm
http://tamw.exxoshost.co.uk/kcs4.zip
KCS is short for "Keyboard Controlled Sequencer""
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http://tamw.atari-users.net/kcs4.zip *DOWNLOAD LINK*
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read article in jpg image attachement clips from may 1987 magazine article
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http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/dr-t-s-kcs-omega/911
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Oh, the KCS. I bought this in 1987 for around £200. Two hundred pounds. Was I insane? I was running a small studio in NE England and I hoped to encourage the notably conservative musical community in my town to dive into the world of electronic music. I didn't succeed. Even now, in 2018, you'd go years between sightings of a synth or a laptop onstage in this town of 120,000 people. I never really got to grips with this software, although it ran happily with a sync code track recorded on my Tascam 80-8 tape machine, giving me a lot of virtual extra tracks. On my Atari 1040 STE, a marvellous machine for music with built-in MIDI sockets, the KCS interface was far less than intuitive. The manual in its substantial ring-binder didn't inspire creativity. I never encountered anyone else using it, either.
I've installed an Atari emulator in my Windows 10 laptop and I'll see if I can make more progress with KCS thirty-one years later. If other people using KCS want to tell me how they are getting on, please do so. All advice welcomed.
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Hi. Good to know there are other fools out there playing with KCS.
I have just resurrected my old Atari and now have KCS running. Took some doing - I had to buy an old notebook to format floppies, AND I bought a Roland U-220, which goes well with my Mirage 16 bit sampler.
I've managed to record 8 bars of nothing much, and soon I'll have a proper look at PVG, which is the real reason for this silly activity.
See attached pic of setup in my "Clean Room"
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