Adrian Bruce Interview (Fairlight CMI Series III, Roland R&D, Roland A-880, A-50, A-80, and more)

ADRIAN'S WEBSITE ► https://www.artandtechnology.com.au ADRIAN'S MANGA ► https://www.artandtechnology.com.au/z... Click to SUBSCRIBE ►    / @synamax   ********************************************* BANDCAMP ► http://synamax.bandcamp.com/ PATREON ►   / synamax   TWITTER ►   / synamax   INSTAGRAM ►   / synamax   SOUNDCLOUD ►   / djsynamax   FACEBOOK ►   / synamax   **************************************************************** 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:00 Adrian's manga / Why Max is interviewing electronic music pioneers 0:01:50 What got Adrian interested in electronics? 0:04:53 How Adrian became involved with computers 0:08:32 Getting a job at Fairlight 0:13:19 First assignment at Fairlight 0:14:16 Torturing Fairlight CMIs 0:15:25 Fingerprints shorting out PCBs 0:17:50 Quality of Electronic components 0:18:40 The first year at Fairlight 0:20:25 Redesigning the Fairlight video card 0:22:10 Working with 20 MB Hard Drives 0:23:22 Fairlight computers for businesses 0:25:23 Qasar Computer 0:27:02 The Alphanumeric Keyboard 0:30:20 Keeping the Series I in production 0:31:28 The Fairlight computer case and its designer Alan Galt 0:33:50 Dual 6809 CPUs and OS9 0:35:20 Making the Series IIx 0:36:36 Running Fairlight CMI in MAME 0:37:08 Memory Paging and Diagnostic Software 0:39:09 Moving to the 6809 for Series II 0:40:40 Filtering out "B Flat Birdies" 0:42:37 How sample playback on the Channel Cards worked 0:44:50 The Series III 0:46:56 Tony Furse's smoking 0:48:07 Constant sample rate vs Variable sample rate 0:49:39 Drawing schematics for the Series III 0:52:34 Wire-wrapping and eventually getting Series III working 0:56:56 Leaving Fairlight for Roland 1:00:50 Getting hired by Ikutaro Kakehashi 1:02:14 Working on the A-880 MIDI Patchbay at Roland Austrailia 1:03:44 Meeting Peter Gabriel 1:04:36 Strange encounter with Florian Schneider 1:08:33 Meeting Jean-Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield 1:09:49 Living in Japan 1:13:18 Watching Akira, Evangelion, and Star Trek on TV 1:17:44 Working on the A-50 MIDI controller 1:21:03 Issues with Japanese Patents 1:24:52 Roland's stance about Pitch Wheels at the time 1:26:09 Getting frustrated dealing with suppliers 1:26:43 The passing of Dave Smtih and Yukio Tamada, unsung programmer of MIDI 1:27:35 Dave Smith's proposal for MIDI at Fairlight 1:28:12 Roland and Yukio Tamada's involvment with the origins of MIDI 1:30:00 The various Roland products that Adrian influenced 1:32:18 Adrian wanted to make a singing synth ala Vocaloid 1:33:05 More Roland produced influenced by Adrian 1:37:28 Adrian came up with the name "Roland Sound Space" 1:39:07 Working at Fairlight VS Roland 1:40:58 Roland is not the same company as it was 1:42:17 Roland's founder hated small keyboards 1:43:38 Outro