| STIL comment | "I wrote it around '84 or '85 as a demo for my music editor called 'Synth'. I was going to University of Waterloo at the time and just gave it to a friend of mine... didn't even bother to put my name on the thing. Anyway it soon started cropping up all over the place. I never made any sequels with music, although there was something with annoying sound effects done in the same style as Synth Sample that I posted in the beginning of 1994. So any music you see that looks like a sequel or has graphics added was done by someone else. Anyway the computer bust of 85/86(?) hit and Synth was never marketed. I had been negotiating with a software company but they went out of business. By that time I was working on a new version of Synth that was a sequencer program for Midi instruments (called MSS), and had joined my first band. I've been in a couple other bands since then, the last one was called SugarPush and we came close to getting signed (but then broke up [...]). So I guess you can credit that little program with launching my musical career..." (GF) |
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| SUBTUNE INFO |
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| #1 - Theme from A Stationary Ark |
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| Artist: | John Mills-Cockell |
| Comment: | "Theme from Stationary Ark, a nature show on PBS. [...] It appears on Synth Sample as interpreted by a friend of mine. I didn't know what it was myself until I happened to see Stationary Ark one time. This song does not play properly on some C-64's where the SID chip filter is calibrated differently." (GF) |
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| #2 - Saturdays in Silesia [from Cold War Night Life] |
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| Artist: | Rational Youth |
| Comment: | "A fluffy pop song I taped off the radio. Seemed simple enough to render on the C-64." (GF) Also used in the game "Shocker", (C) 1987 Systems Editoriale. |
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| #3 - Spiral [from Spiral] |
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| Artist: | Vangelis |
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| #4 - Tubular Bells, Part 1 [from Tubular Bells] |
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| Artist: | Mike Oldfield |
| Comment: | A little free-hand adaptation. "I just thought this was ultra cool. Used as the music to The Exorcist, unfortunately." (GF) |
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| #5 - Magic Shadows, closing theme |
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| Artist: | Harry Forbes |
| Comment: | "Magic Shadows was a half-hour movie show on TV Ontario, sort of the Canadian equivalent of PBS. They'd show old movies in half-hour installments. I have no idea if there's an album. I taped it off the TV." (GF) |
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| #6 - Funeral Music for Queen Mary |
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| Artist: | Henry Purcell |
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| #7 - Oxygene 2 [from Oxygene] |
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| Artist: | Jean-Michel Jarre |
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| #8 - Canon in D major |
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| Artist: | Johann Pachelbel |
| Comment: | "This is a very popular classical hit. I transcribed the notes from a Transactor or Compute! article (this is the only Synth Sample piece not transcribed by ear)." (GF) |
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| #9 - Enola Gay [from Organisation] |
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| Artist: | George Andrew McCluskey, performed by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) |
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#851: Mixer - Synth Sample #1 
