Charles Callet

Charles Callet

Gender	Male
Born	1956 or 1957
Birth Place
Nationality	French
Died	1995
Aliases	C. Callet

Charles Callet was a French composer and sound programmer.

In 1976, he composed the song Le matin sur la rivière for the singer Ève Brenner, which reached number one in many countries, excluding France. Later, he worked as a music engraver and in surveys. Under the pseudonym Loudvig, he sung the song Radio Sex Appeal for the young radio station NRJ.

In 1985, he bought himself an Amstrad CPC 464. Not able to find affordable scorewriter software, he wrote Amstradeus in BASIC in six months.

In January 1986, he founded his own company, Music Logiciel, near Lyon. Six months later, he started working with Infogrames and wrote a music editor called Music Pro in assembly. He also worked with Ubisoft, Lankhor and Microïds.

Besides computer music, he composed 300 variety musics, two lyric works and eight symphonic works. By June 1989, he was married to opera singer Nicole Subtil.

Audio Development

According to Micro News N° 22, June 1989, Callet's equipment included

Pro 24 and an ADAP Soundrack, both for Atari ST,
Ensoniq ESQ-1, Minimoog, and Yamaha TX802 synthesizers,
an Akai S900 sampler, and
Quantec, a Yamaha REV7, and Yamaha SPX90 effect processors.

Amiga

By 1990, Callet had made an Amiga version of Music Pro.

Amstrad CPC

Callet composed using his own editor, Music Pro. The editor was published, but in 1990, he said it was a commercial failure.

Atari ST

Callet composed using Music Pro on the Amstrad CPC, and transferred the compiled music files to the ST, for which a driver existed. In 1988, he announced a ST version of the editor.

Commodore 64

Callet mainly composed using Music Pro on the Amstrad CPC, and transferred the compiled music files to the C64, for which a driver existed. In 1988, he thought there was no market for the editor on the C64. He acknowledged the better quality of the SID, but criticized the lack of independent volume registers and the irregular processing time taken by the video chip.

Four games also used Soundmonitor, often optimized. Three games used Master Composer, a driver possibly developed by The Programming Partnership, and Jason Brooke's driver.

DOS

In 1988, Callet announced a PC version of Music Pro that would support an extension card with two additional voices.

Gameography

Released	Title	Notes
1986-??-??	Passengers on the Wind (CPC)
1987-0?-??	Passengers on the Wind (C64)
1987-0?-??	Prohibition (CPC)
1987-1?-??	Music Pro (CPC)
1987-12-??	Sidewalk (C64)
1987-??-??	Iznogoud (CPC)
1987-??-??	Passengers on the Wind 2 (CPC)
1987-??-??	Passengers on the Wind 2 (C64)
1987-??-??	Sidewalk (CPC)
1988-02-??	Iznogoud (C64)
1988-02-??	Lee Enfield in "The Tournament of Death" (C64)
1988-04-??	Lee Enfield is "Space Ace" (C64)
1988-0?-??	Final Assault (C64)	V1.6 Only.
1988-??-??	Action Service (AMI)
1988-??-??	Action Service (AST)
1988-??-??	Captain Blood (DOS)
1988-??-??	Hostages: Rescue Mission (AMI)
1989-??-??	Drakkhen (DOS)
1989-06-??	Hostages: Rescue Mission (C64)
1989-12-??	Operation Neptune (C64)
1989-??-??	North & South (AMI)
1990-09-21	North & South (NES) (ノース&サウスわくわく南北戦争)	Arranged by Y. Kawakami and Hiroyuki Masuno.
1990-??-??	North & South (DOS)
1991-0?-??	North & South (C64)	Arranged by Jeroen Tel.
1991-??-??	Advantage Tennis (AMI)
1991-??-??	Advantage Tennis (AST)
1991-??-??	Advantage Tennis (DOS)
1992-09-11	Gobliiins (DOS)
1992-??-??	Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon (AMI)
1992-??-??	Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon (DOS)
1992-??-??	Ween: The Prophecy (AMI)
1992-??-??	Ween: The Prophecy (DOS)
1993-??-??	Goblins Quest 3 (DOS)
1993-??-??	Lost in Time (DOS)

Picture Gallery

Zanzibar, 1984.
With Emmanuel Viau and Michel Rho. Amstrad Magazine N° 2, September 1985.
Amstrad Magazine N° 7, February 1986.
Infogrames. ASM 1/88.
Unidentified company awarded the Tilt d'or. Tweeted by Emmanuel Forsans (top middle).
Tilt N° 51, February 1988.
Amstrad CPC 6128 on the left, Minimoog in the middle. TEO N° 19, September/October 1988.
Most likely on an Amiga 1000. Micro News N° 16, December 1988.
Amour et Liberté, February 19, 1989.
With Subtil and an Infogrames shirt.
Unknown source. Twitter, January 8, 2019, found on April 13, 2022.