Short: Tribute to Rob Baxter (2 disks set) of SONIX classical music.. Author: hgammon@cix.compulink.co.uk Uploader: craftbro midicraft demon co uk Type: mus/misc Architecture: generic File name: Dedication1.lha Requirements: Amiga O/S 2 or above, 1Mb RAM, 2 FLOPPY DISK DRIVES! A Tribute to Rob Baxter 1957-1996 (RIP) By Hugh Gammon - July 1996 of The Desktop Music Workshop By now most of you will know of the death of 'ROB BAXTER' early in 1996. In fact this was over 1 year ago now.. This tribute to Rob Baxter (2 disk set), produced by Hugh Gammon, has now been archived in LHA format and uploaded to AMINET for those interested in possessing this.. Simply unarchive each LHA file to a blank Amiga formatted DD Floppy disk.. The first disk is required for booting.. Other requirements are that you have 2 disk drives for the set to boot properly.. Apart from that hope you enjoy the music.. Some words by HUGH GAMMON ************************* With myself we founded "THE DESKTOP MUSIC WORKSHOP" (DWM) after his suggestion that we pool our various talents together on the Amiga platform. As there was only two of us arranging Classical music under this name, you can imagine how I felt when I heard the sad news of his death. Rob was more than just a team mate with the DMW, he was a great friend and my inspiration throughout the last 5 to 6 years. He introduced me to what could be done on the AMIGA using just the Amiga "sound chip", and after that I never looked back.. It was after Rob had released several disks into the PD scene, and I had just released "Mozart's Four Horn Concertos" that we decided to form the DMW. His death has left a very big gap in my life, and I cannot quite come to terms with the fact, that he has departed.. If there is any consolation at all, it is that Rob has left behind a very many fans of his music, and also the thought that the music he arranged and scored will still live on.. Rob made so many friends through his music, that they would be too numerous to mention here, but I'm sure they all miss him as much as I do.. There is one thing that I can do, that he would have wanted, and that is to carry on with my Classical music, and still keep the DMW going.. With this in mind I have started "The William Tell Overture" and hope to release it by the end of the year, my style of arranging was very different from Rob's although we used the same Musical tools ie. SYNTHIA PRO - EZ FM - and SONIX. I shall continue to use the same format as before under the name of:- "THE DESKTOP MUSIC WORKSHOP" My thanks go to all the people that supported Rob's music and a special thanks to Kevan Craft for allowing me to make this small dedication originally on MIDICraft (DISK) Magazine issue #10. I have produced a 2 disk set containing "MORNING" and "JESU", which Rob had asked me to do about 2 years ago, but I never released them into the Public Domain until now... These are now available on AMINET as two x LHA archives Dedication1.lha and Dedication2.lha, both files include readme files.. So I thought this would be the appropriate time to include them on a double disk set which I've produced as a special dedication to Rob Baxter, as a Thank you to Rob for all the help he gave me.. Also on this disk set is the last piece of music Rob arranged on the Amiga, which has never been previously released and comprises of a single piece, the "1st movement of Bach's Violin Concerto in E".. This has been included on the dedication disk set in memory of Rob.. If anyone would like actual copie of this 2 disk set dedication to Rob Baxter, then you can write to me at the address below but please include 2 x Blank disks and enough costs to cover the Postage and Packing... Or you can Email me if your on the Internet.. Thanks.. Hugh (The Welsh Mozart) Hugh Gammon 77 Llewellyn St Llanelli Carms S.WALES SA15 1BD U.K. Tel: +44 (01554) 770181 Email: hgammon@cix.compulink.co.uk Findonet: 2:259/66.9 Listing of archive Dedication1.lha Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 928 519 44.0% 06-Jul-96 16:04:32 Disk.info 13184 1809 86.2% 06-Jul-96 15:52:10 Instruments/instrs 20692 18004 12.9% 06-Jul-96 15:52:26 load.pp 22476 20763 7.6% 06-Jul-96 15:52:30 menu.pp 16524 4578 72.2% 06-Jul-96 15:52:24 Scores/Eallegro.smus 4148 1547 62.7% 06-Jul-96 15:52:22 Scores/jesu.smus 6942 2370 65.8% 06-Jul-96 15:52:20 Scores/morning.smus 59776 27344 54.2% 06-Jul-96 15:52:46 ToRob 1694 278 83.5% 06-Jul-96 16:04:32 ToRob.info 4944 2487 49.6% 30-Mar-97 16:25:40 Dedication1.readme -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 151308 79699 47.3% 30-Mar-97 16:26:56 10 files