1999.09 www.prorec.com: Reality
1999.09 www.prorec.com: SurReal

1999.09.15 SurReal Mix Oct.
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Minimum System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 95 or Windows 98
CPUs: Intel Pentium II; AMD K5 (reduced performance)
CPU Speed: 133 MHz (200 MHz for capture)
Memory: 40 Mb, 64 Mb recommended
Drives: Hard drive with 20Mb free space, CD for retail installation.

Audio output: virtually any audio card with DirectSound drivers. Select SoundBlaster output emulation if possible. (Use the demo downloads to test functionality.)

Partial list of supported sound cards: all Creative Labs; Ensoniq Audio PCI; E-mu Creation Studio; Turtle Beach MultiSound Pinnacle, Fiji, Daytona, Malibu, Tahiti, Monterey; Terratec EWS64L; Guillemot MAXIsound; Creamware Triple DAT; Hoontech Sound Track series; AVM Apex and Summit SST.

Note regarding laptops: if your laptop has operating DirectSound drivers but produces stuttered output, try to defeat the “Advanced Power Management” feature. {all ® or ™ as appropriate}

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SeerMusic Downloads:

All downloads place an .exe on your desktop.
To explore SeerMusic™ all you need is the Remixer. After installation, go to the “SeerMusic” page
Seer reMixer Engine [18.1Mb]

Reality is the professional synthesizer and one of the very few ways in the universe of accessing genuine Sondius physical modeling. The Reality Manual is in the archive at 1999.08. For compelling fidelity try to access its output digitally (for example, via S/PDIF).
Reality 1.5 Demo [7.8Mb]

SurReal is the playback-oriented workhorse:
SurReal Demo (small) [3.5Mb]
SurReal Demo (large) [18.6Mb]

Remixer is the basic player.

Seer WAVmaker additionally converts SeerMusic™ and General MIDI files into WAV or MP3 files at the highest possible audio quality, regardless of the speed of your computer.

Seer WAVmaker also includes all the features of Seer reMixer+ Internet Music Player.

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Producer: John Holston
Music and lyrics by: John Holston
14 reMixer tracks

This tune was composed in MIDI using Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.0 and Reality 1.5.3 for all the instruments. The vocal tracks were recorded onto Cakewalk Pro Audio multi tracks, mixed down to one track and edited into samples in Sound Forge 4.0. The resulting vocal samples were then imported into the Reality sound bank and mapped to the keyboard using Reality. Going back to Cakewalk the vocal samples were then “played” on the keyboard controller while the other MIDI tracks played. After the MIDI file was complete it was imported into Reality and the entire soundbank was saved as a SeerMusic file, given a discrete name, and you are now listening to it!

Gear used: Homemade computer with Pentium II-350, 64 megs RAM, Win 98, AWE64 Gold sound card, Stedman vocal mic, Behringer Autocomp compressor.

Listen: Jacob’s Letter 192k

The real achievement here is that Reality closed the door on the old way of doing things—”changed the paradigm”—and it did so as a flawless, exemplary 1.0 software release. Obviously, you do not achieve these results without a team deeply steeped in the tradition.

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