Vintage Computer Festival SoCal To Feature Vintage Mac & PC MIDI Sequencer Labs

The Vintage Computer Festival SoCal, scheduled for February 15-16, 2025 in Orange, California, will feature two computer-based vintage MIDI sequencing workstations.

Deep Signal Studio‘s booth will feature two vintage computers MIDI sequencing workstations. Attendees will be able to play with the systems, which will be connected to vintage synths, samplers and drum machines like a Roland Juno 106, Emu Emax, and Sequential DrumTracks.

A MacSE FDHD will run Opcode EZ Vision v1.0, Vision v1.02 and an Opcode Professional Plus MIDI interface. A Pocket 386 running MS-DOS will with a Roland MPU-IPC-T MIDI interface in the Pocket 386’s ISA expansion board will be running Magnetic Music’s Texture v4.25.

They will give attendees a crash course on these earlier forms of computer-based MIDI sequencing. Attendees are encouraged to compose a song the way artists and producers would have done it around 1989. The compositions can be recorded two-track, so it can be encoded as an mp3, emailed to the attendees, upload to Soundcloud or burn to a CD.

Or you can just hang out and chat about MIDI, vintage synths, and old computers.

What else to expect at VCFSoCal:

  • Aisle of vintage PCs to explore
  • Exhibitors showing off their latest projects like modern interfaces or new software for old computers
  • Interactive exhibits and retro gameplay
  • Lovingly preserved historic machines
  • Consignment area to buy and sell retro tech
  • Tech veteran stories and presentations every hour

Vintage Computer Festival SoCal will be held  at Hotel Fera DoubleTree by Hilton, 100 The City Drive S in the city of Orange, California February 15-16, 2025. Pricing is $25 one day pass, $40 for 2 day pass, 9AM to 6PM. See the event site for details.

5 thoughts on “Vintage Computer Festival SoCal To Feature Vintage Mac & PC MIDI Sequencer Labs

  1. when it all went wrong….

    having said that, i would have expected an Atari ST setup. i wrote a stupid seqeuncer in Forth on one. the SE was a huge dud, and no built in MIDI.

  2. Hi, Nick here, these exhibitor of this booth. These were the first 2 midi sequencers I learned and made many songs with. I never owned an Atari computer but if I wam to do a similar booth next year maybe I’ll get one.

  3. What a cool concept and I hope that the booth is a big success. MOTU Performer 1.0 (on a Macintosh Plus) will forever be my favorite program.

  4. Wish I lived anywhere near. I still have a PowerMac 8500 in storage along with a couple of Opcode serial MIDI interfaces, running Studio Vision AV. I had to be more creative in the 1990’s, before the age of hard disk recording and in-the-box synths and FX.

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