John Jones, Dr Gerhard Lengeling, and musician Sujin Nam, with some of Apogee's Tech Awards
With overwhelming joy, I finally got to meet Dr Gerhard Lengeling and Sujin Nam at the the Apogee 25th party in August.
Back in 1989, I was simply empowered, when I first started using Gerhard’s Notator/Creator music software on the Atari ST.
I still have my 1040 ST and Notator and Uniter, all ready to go at a moments notice. You will never ever have a better piece of music software under the Sun than Notator!
We were over at Steve Postell’s cutting electric guitars for Jimmy McKeever’s new album, when we heard a rash of sirens blasting by Steve’s house in peaceful Santa Monica. I stepped out of the studio to catch one of them flying past, and it had HAZMAT written all over it. We knew it had to be a plane that went down, so off we three went for a look see.
A small plane had crashed into a house just a block from Steve’s, and less than that from Penmar Golf Course. The pilot and the gardners appeared to be okay. The rookie flyer was practicing touch and go landings when he clipped a tree and hit the house about a block from the end of the runway. I hope he goes back there and thanks that tree for breaking his fall!
We first met in Studio 1 at AIR on Oxford Street.
All the best digital recorders had Apogee filters from the beginning of digital’s dominance of the recording world in the late 1980s.
