I recorded Windows in 1993 when the first major advancements in Digital recording technology were in their infancy. These songs are a collection of String Orchestra Arrangements that I wrote for various Film and other Commercial Projects in development.

The Yamaha Corporation, at the forefront of Digital Technology during this time with the famous DX7 Synthesizer, manufactured a prototype unit called the Yamaha 8-16. It was a unit that comprised the "insides" of 8, 16 note, DX7 polyphonic synthesizers put side by side in a rack mount. That would be the "guts" minius the keyboard.

I don't believe the unit was ever mass produced. I was very fortunate to have a good friend, Kevin Laubach, who consulted for Yamaha and reviewed many of their prototype products before going on the market.

It is possible that I made the only commercial recording on the market with this very advanced unit. When you hear the sound, it is very "large" for the time. With all the notes playing from all the DX7's, 128 (8x16=128), that was 128 different instruments playing at the same time. The DX7 sounds were not "Digital Samples" but they were the best sounding "Synthesized" programs of that time.

At this time, the technology of "Sampling" was truly at its infancy. Kevin had two Digital samplers. I recall them being "very" expensive. The strings in these samples had a natural sound and vibrato. The synthesized strings had very little and "fake" sounding vibrato. Kevin was and is brilliant! He mixed the 128 voices from the 8-16 with the 32 notes from the two samplers together and we produced an incredible sound for its day. This recording really is a of piece Digital Recording history!

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