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Orpheus first started out on an Atari Mega 4 STE back in 1997/98 and was written in ST-Basic.
It was a long time dream of programmer/creator Mike Bishop, who had been working on this project for many years.
After many attempts and many different techniques, Mike hit upon the idea of letting the computer randomly pick notes
from a selected scale, as programming a computer to be creative is a fairly hard or near impossible feat.
The software was developed further and eventually totally re-written in Visual Basic in Summer 2005.
Many features have been developed, including 'Forwards, Backwards and Alternate' which does for midi what the Akai S950
samplers does with audio,
'Inverse Triggers', 'Reverse Sequence', and Dedicated LFO's to control midi sys-ex data
like cutoff, resonance, pan etc.
You can hear some of the first early recordings below (lifted from audio cassette tape!!!)
All MP3's © 2008 blue loft studio
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