Like I stated earlier on my blog and on my Facebook page, I am not a professional musician, but I do have a long tradition of creating computer generated “music”. I am, however, a professional at buying and setting up guitars (short of messing with the truss rod settings), audio effects, and digital audio workstations (DAWs). Currently, I work with Cakewalk’s SONAR Platinum. It is indeed unfortunate I can’t find any people to teach. Also, I have not setup my Saturday, April 30, 1988 Commodore Amiga 2000 to see if that ancient mariner is still functional. Right now, I have my Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer, Yamaha CBX-K2 MIDI keyboard, and two Bose Companion I computer stereo speakers setup on my parents’ 1940s era oak kitchen or breakfast-room table. The table is in my apartment’s makeshift office. That is where I would need to place my old Commodore relic personal computer.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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