Comments on: Dr. T’s KCS Keyboard Controlled Sequencer

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:02:19 +0000

Hi mister_allmine… Take some photos or a video of KCS in action. There’s nothing on YouTube… I would love to see it running again!

By: mister_allmine

mister_allmine — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:36:16 +0000

I purchased 2 Atari STs almost 10 yrs ago, came with a box of software including KCS and Tiger, but I have never got around to using it, beacuse I never had the space to leave my kit set up long-term. We finally bought or own home, and tho it is almost 2010, I still plan to use KCS. I picked up 2 1040s, 1 color and 1 mono monitor, 1 ext harddrive and 1 floppydrive, printer and 2 mice with boxes of floppys for $50! I think it was fate. Aside from a few Korg syths, most of my stuff is 80s era anyway, so I’ll be keeping w tradition.

By: pat the dog

pat the dog — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:57:41 +0000

KCS was a fantastic sequencer. I used it on the Amiga for several years. It’s author Emile Tobenfeld is nothing short of a genius. He was also extremely helpful and always happy to answer emails. He even posted me a cassette of his own music which was lovely of him.

After KCS, I used Cubase for a while before moving onto Logic. In the last couple of years I’ve been mostly using Ableton Live whose session view seems to have been inspired by KCS. Though there are still some things that KCS was better at even than Live, such as clips that could launch other clips.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:34:26 +0000

After KCS on Atari I moved on to:

Cubase Atari
Cubase VST/32 on a Mac clone (PowerComputer Powercenter Pro210)
Cubase SX on a Powermac G4 Dual 500 Tower

and today:

Ableton Live 7 on a Intel Mac