Thanks to @Stephen who acted as an american facilitator, I was able to purchase Super Studio Session from ebay from a seller who refused to sell to Canadians. After paying for all costs involved, it found me at my home today! Composer Ed Bogas teamed up with the likes of Steve Capps (which you might know from his involvement with so much of the early sound software for compact macs). For those who aren't aware, here are the specs:
Studio Session:
-Used the Sound Driver or early System 6 or previous macs
-Mixes 6 channels of instrument samples into the one freewave synth; some instruments have a loopback section that allows them to sustain a note, some don't.
-Came with an optional brilliant full screen cassette player acting as a jukebox, Super Studio doesn't have it
Super Studio Session:
-Bumps up to 8 simultaneous channels, most provided songs have been augmented to take advantage of the extra 2 ones
-Plays nicer with the Sound Manager of early System 7
-Can run on my SE/30 with System 7.5.3, documentation says it's compatible with Quadras and early Powerbooks
I've always had very fond memories of the original Studio Session running on my Mac Plus all the way back from 1986 or 87 onward. My brother and me tried to imagine little stories related to all the included songs and of course we tried our hand at porting or composing stuff ourselves.
I DON'T want to start a software-in-box collection but damnit, I couldn't pass up this one because 1) mac software that old is pretty rare and 2) Studio Session is fading into obscurity compared to MIDI-compatible music software.
I'll be able to upload the missing images from the already beefy entry in Macintosh Garden (manual pdf, box pictures, etc). The version v2.2 is the same as was already present.
Studio Session:
-Used the Sound Driver or early System 6 or previous macs
-Mixes 6 channels of instrument samples into the one freewave synth; some instruments have a loopback section that allows them to sustain a note, some don't.
-Came with an optional brilliant full screen cassette player acting as a jukebox, Super Studio doesn't have it
Super Studio Session:
-Bumps up to 8 simultaneous channels, most provided songs have been augmented to take advantage of the extra 2 ones
-Plays nicer with the Sound Manager of early System 7
-Can run on my SE/30 with System 7.5.3, documentation says it's compatible with Quadras and early Powerbooks
I've always had very fond memories of the original Studio Session running on my Mac Plus all the way back from 1986 or 87 onward. My brother and me tried to imagine little stories related to all the included songs and of course we tried our hand at porting or composing stuff ourselves.
I DON'T want to start a software-in-box collection but damnit, I couldn't pass up this one because 1) mac software that old is pretty rare and 2) Studio Session is fading into obscurity compared to MIDI-compatible music software.
I'll be able to upload the missing images from the already beefy entry in Macintosh Garden (manual pdf, box pictures, etc). The version v2.2 is the same as was already present.
