HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
Subject: Soundblaster Pro - Changed?
Reply-To: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
Organization: Monitor Company / IE
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:03:26 GMT

My friend just got a new Soundblaster Pro, I bought one almost a year ago. It  
seems they have changed some of the card's preset sounds. He also has no  
problem running Cakewalk for Windows and I am unable to run it using older  
Windows 3.1 drivers and newer drivers provided with his card.

Does anyone know what was changed on the Soundblaster Pro?

More to the point--is there a BBS where I can get info and updated drivers?
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so obviously my opinions do not represent/ / Monitor Company, Cambridge, MA
those of my employers" Johnson           \ \ michael@monitor.com
Xref: sparky comp.music:4085 rec.music.makers:8955
From: phillips@nwaces.enet.dec.com (Errol M. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers
Subject: Brand NEW Ensoniq EPS 16+ FOR SALE
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:48:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.music
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

Brand new EPS 16+ for sale (2 months old, very little use)

   Ensoniq EPS 16 + Rackmont unit
    - Waveboy effects disk ( add effects and better routing)
    - Giebler disk utilities for IBMPC 

Asking $1695 (will pay half UPS ground shipping)

Call Errol @ (603)-882-5125 evenings or (603)-884-5010 days
send Email to phillips@nwaces.enet.dec.com 
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: oss@itnsg1.cineca.it (Stefano Oss)
Subject: Re: Korg M1 or M3r patch editor
Keywords: Korg, patch, editor
Organization: Laboratorio di Fisica Computazionale, INFM. Trento Italia
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:09:23 GMT

oss@itnsg1.cineca.it (Stefano Oss) writes:

>davecole@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Cole) writes:

>>I would like recommendations or information on where to find a patch editor
>>for either the Korg M1 or the M3r module.  Freeware, shareware, demos
>>especially appreciated, but advice or info on commercial editors of interest
>>also.  I use a 386sx pc clone.  (I have checked archie, ucsd, and louie.udel
>>sites and it seems there is no such thing on the net.  If someone knows a bbs
>>that has an M1 editor and does _not_ require a years subscription to download
>>files, let me know.  One I have heard of is called M1 Patch Thing. I am also
>>looking for patches to try and learn from.)

>>Cheers,

>>Dave Cole   davecole@casbah.acns.nwu.edu

>I could help you if you had and Atari machine. I do have patch editors
>for both M1 and M3R on this computer. I do not know anything about editors
>for DOS based machines (I mean, I do not have any of them). Let me know
>if this is of some interest for you.



>
                                                  Stefano Oss

sorry, forgot my address:

OSS@ITNSG1.CINECA.IT
Department of Physics
38050 POVO (TN) Italy
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: gregor@oit.itd.umich.edu (Gregor Purdy)
Subject: "Killer" MIDI Keyboard/Sound Generator
Organization: University of Michigan
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:37:09 GMT

Friends--

What is currently considered the overall best (price-no-object) MIDI:
  *  Keyboard only
  *  Sound Generator only
  *  Keyboard + Sound Generator
on the market, and why?

--Gregor N. Purdy

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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: quaglia@seas.smu.edu (Bruce Quaglia)
Subject: Re: Scope and content of this group (read before posting!)
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:36:41 GMT

In article <3714@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
>Ahem.
>
>I participated in the original discussion for this newsgroup, voted for
>it, and have subscribed to it ever since.  This is the first time that
>I've heard it claimed that discussion of sound synthesis techniques are
>out of bounds.
>
>It sounds like someone is trying to impose the charter of the
>Music-Research Digest on comp.music.  That won't wash.
>
>Anyone who thinks postings like Christopher Penrose's granular synthesis
>instruments belong in rec.music.synth instead of here has a serious
>misunderstanding of why many of us voted for it in the first place.
>
>		-Ed Hall
>		edhall@rand.org


Absolutely! rec.music.synth is not an appropriate board for disscussions
such as the one cited above because on the whole that group is concerned
almost exclusively with the commercial synthesizers, notation-software
and midi-sequencers. It is usally more of a trade page with product-reviews
and for sale notices. I've never gotten a satisfying answer on anything
like granular sythesis from that group, but have found this group to
be a very fruitful forum for discussing sound synthesis. 
  I've found myself wishing there was an alt.comp.music.notation group
  just so I could stop killing all of those threads, but I doubt
  that those posts would remain out of this group anyway, and besides, it's not
  that big a deal anyway.

  What I want to know is what happens if we "disobey" the charter?
  Do we get cited by the comp.music cops?! 
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: Josef Moellers <mollers.pad@sni.de>
Subject: Request for midi files
Summary: Can someone send me ROLAND_MPU compatible file(s)?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:34:23 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
Keywords: midi, roland mpu

Hi,

I am currently developing a set of PC-based programs that will record and
playback everything that I play on a YAMAHA keyboard.

I have chosen to use the format that the Roland MPU is supposed to use.
There was an article in BYTE years ago, that described a set of PASCAL
functions/procedures that processed the MPU's data stream. I have tried
to implement the data stream as described in that article.

No I want to try and see how good my software is. Furthermore I'd like
to have some demos so I can show to my wife that what I did was usefull.

TIA

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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: broe@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Frank Breier)
Subject: Editor or Soundmanager for T3 or TG77
Organization: Communication Networks
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:39:29 GMT

Hi,

I found many sounds for these synths on several ftp-sites but I did'nt
found any soundmanager or editors.
Is anybody out there who knows where to get such programs for the Atari ST !

Thanks in advance !

-- 
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From: davecole@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Korg M1 or M3r patch editor
Keywords: Korg, patch, editor
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:09:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

I would like recommendations or information on where to find a patch editor
for either the Korg M1 or the M3r module.  Freeware, shareware, demos
especially appreciated, but advice or info on commercial editors of interest
also.  I use a 386sx pc clone.  (I have checked archie, ucsd, and louie.udel
sites and it seems there is no such thing on the net.  If someone knows a bbs
that has an M1 editor and does _not_ require a years subscription to download
files, let me know.  One I have heard of is called M1 Patch Thing. I am also
looking for patches to try and learn from.)

Cheers,

Dave Cole   davecole@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
From: markb@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Mark Bower)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: alt.music.*
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:43:37 GMT
Organization: Telectronics Pacing Systems
Originator: markb@sydrd14

The site I'm currently at does not get any of the alt. or rec.
groups. 

Does anyone know of any mail servers or sites where the alt
(actually the alt.music) groups can be obtained from ?

Cheers for any info.

Mark
-- 
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 >>>>============================== markb@tps.com =================>->
<///  perfect mental grid for true chaos.   markb@tplrd.tpl.oz.au <,/
From: gates@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Bill Gates)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:57:54 GMT
Subject: computer recommendation
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
Newsgroups: comp.music

Could you folks perhaps tell me how much CPU a music scoring program can
consume?  I'm in the market for a home computer, which will be used for
music scoring and, of course, various games.  Can one of the higher clock
rate 386 units handle something like Encore, or would a 486 be a better
choice (where better = the increase in speed is noticable and necessary).

Also, how much hard disk and RAM would be necessary for these applications?

Thanks,
Bill
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: quaglia@seas.smu.edu (Bruce Quaglia)
Subject: ICMC info..
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:50:27 GMT


    Could somebody please E-mail me the address for the ICMC,or
    just send the info that was posted here about a week ago,
    it expired before I copied it ...thanks
    bq

Xref: sparky comp.music:4138 rec.music.makers:9023 rec.music.synth:13586
From: alex@fiskville.mc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: "Killer" MIDI Keyboard/Sound Generator
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:52:49 GMT

Gregor Purdy writes
> Friends--
> 
> What is currently considered the overall best (price-no-object) MIDI:
>   *  Keyboard only
>   *  Sound Generator only
>   *  Keyboard + Sound Generator
> on the market, and why?
> 
> --Gregor N. Purdy
> 

Gregor,

The "best killer keyboard" depends a lot on what you intend to do with it.   
Lets say you want a good sampler with built in digital effects and a good  
sequencer. The obvious choice for this is the Ensoniq EPS 16. If you want  
to do something more "R&B" sounding and don't require samples the Korg  
O1/Wpro (76 keys, onboard 16 track sequencer) might be more to your  
tastes. The Kurzweil K2000 appears to be a cool board for someone who  
wants lots of synthesis flexibility and samples but no sequencer. analog  
purists would rather own an Oberheim or older Moog synth... I could go on.  
A keyboard is a tool and you need the right tool for the right job. What  
is your job?

As for controller keyboards I think the Roland A-50 (and A-80) rank way up  
there. I personally hate the Kurzweil MIDIboard and I think the Yamaha  
KX-88 is cryptic and tremendously weighty. The A-50 is light and has a  
great feel and is easy to operate (if you don't mind reading the manual).

Alex
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: 1992 International Computer Music Conference (call for participation)
Keywords: conference, computer music, San Jose State University
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:57:58 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

Hi,

I want to go to this thing as a student.  Does anyone want to share
a room?

maurices@spock.DIS.CCCD.edu
From: miller@cs.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: re: very much re... (appropriate postings)
Date: 14 Aug 92 23:26:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester


Please don't misunderstand my comments; I'm not trying to be a snob. Let
me give a more concrete example...

Lets say you want to look up information about piano manufacture
techniques in the library. Which would be more convenient, to have all
such books catalogued under a heading "manufacture, piano", or to have
to scan every book in the library because it wasn't catalogued? The
former, of course. What I am suggesting is that for some of the topics
that crop up here from time to time, there is already a well-known group
that people expect such discussions to take place. You will get a wider
audience, you will get better answers, and those of us in this group who
wish to participate in such discussions are free to subscribe to both
(all) groups.

It defeats the purpose of the newsgroup system to have extensive overlap
between groups; the idea is to allow you to make your reading more
focused, and participate in discussions you are interested in, not to
have irrelevancies forced down your throat. What CMJ or Electronic
Musician or anything else publishes is beside the point; you don't
expect to read an EM "From the Top" column about MIDI on the IBM which
has been indexed as a review of a K2000; I don't want to read about
requests for patches, lyrics, and for sale notices in a group which
purports to be about computer music research. When I have time, I do
skim through rec.music.synth, but I don't have time to keep up with it
on a daily basis, and I appreciate the otherwise low volume of this
group, since it means I *can* read it often. That won't happen if it
continues to degenerate into an alias of alt.flame :-)
From: timo@picea.hut.fi (Timo Veijola)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: How to get frq from MIDI note on/off message
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:32:09 GMT

rolfe@fraser.sfu.ca (Christopher John Rolfe) writes:

>risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) writes:

>>Hi!

>>I have seen, but since forgotten a formula for the frequency of the
>>sound produced, given the parameters of MIDI note on/off/aftch, the
>>current pitch bender setting and the base frequency.

>>Yes, I do know that 'frq = 2^(noteval/12) * K', where K is a constant
>>value derived from the base frequency.  It's the bender value that I'm
>>having the trouble with, in fitting into the formula.
> 
>	The 12th root of two formula, of course, assumes
>equal-temperament. And don't forget master/global tuning.  K is
>8.1757989 for A-440.  
>	Pitch bend messages send a value between 0 and 127, where 64
>is the centred position.  Pitch bend sensitivity, however, is set 
>on the receiving instrument ( such that the 64 values between 0 and 64
>could be mapped to a semi-tone below, or an octave below ).  
>Additionally instruments may send an additional pitch bend value 
>between 0 and 127, increasing the resolution. 

Incorrect !
Pitch bend value is always a 14 bit value coded in two data bytes (MSB = 0).
Minimum, center and maximum values are (Hexadecimal): 0h, 2000h 3FFFh 
Only the RESOLUTION of the Pitch Bend value depends on the instrument.
I agree that the sensitivity depends on the instrument; Each path can
contain the sensitivity value in semi-tones (eg. 1-24).

>	Solve for actual PbendValue by:
>	PbendValue = ( HiByte - 64 ) + ( LowByte / 128 )
>and    
>	Calculate Pbend then by:
>	Pbend = Sensitivity ^ ( PbendValue / 64 )
>e.g.,
>	If sensitivity is set to one semitone ( 2^(1/12) = 1.0594631 )
>		and HiByte = 0
>		    LowByte = 0
>		then PbendValue is ( 0 - 64 ) + ( 0/128 ) = -64
>		then Pbend = 1.0594631 ^( -64/ 64 )
>			   = 0.9438743

>	Frequency then is:   
>	
>	freq = ((2^(note#/12) * K) * Pbend ) 

>I think...

We don't need any additional equations here. The Bender position causes
linear change to the noteval in Risto's equation, thus the frequence
changes exponentially.

>Chris
>rolfe@sfu.ca

Timo Veijola
timo@aplac.hut.fi
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: 1992 International Computer Music Conference (call for participation)
From: feijai@endor.byu.edu (Sean Luke)
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:04:47 -0700
Reply-To: sean@digaudio.byu.edu

In article <BsvwoM.Krq@spock.dis.cccd.edu>  writes:
>Hi,
>
>I want to go to this thing as a student.  Does anyone want to share
>a room?


When and where is it?  How much?  Etc.  I'm a student as well.
--

Sean Luke
Brigham Young University                   MILK:  It Comes From Cows
sean@digaudio.byu.edu  
NeXTmail and nifty Mac stuff welcome
From: mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (Matthew Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Has Anyone Gotten Their Gravis
Date: 13 Aug 92 01:52:22 GMT
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY

So I Was Wondering, in June it was released, but delayed on shipping
till July, and it is now August, has anyone Gotten the Gravis that
they ordered all of thise months ago, and if yes or no, any news of it
since all news about it has dissappeared from this group.
Maybe someone could add me to the newslist that was started on the
Gravis Ultra Sound.

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Xref: sparky comp.music:4140 rec.music.makers:9025 rec.music.synth:13588
From: tholome@bangalore.esf.de
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Where is rec.music.synth?
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:29:06 GMT

Hi guys!

Sorry if this is obvious for everybody but me, but unfortunately I haven't been
able to read the news for about two months. Now, I come back to discover that
rec.music.synth has disappeared. Is this one more trick from my system engineer,
or has something really happended?

Thanks for any help! I miss r.m.s!

                                                Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: s310@brems.ii.uib.no (Chris Tveit)
Subject: Where is TEX, MusicTEX ??
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:14:44 GMT


Where can I find the newest version of TEX, MusicTEX, ao. for my PC (MS-DOS) ??

Are there any TEX-printer-drivers for my HP DeskJet 500 ?? (where)



Thanks.

Chris the Bazzman.
From: zundel@i10s7 (Armin Zundel)
Newsgroups: comp.specification
Subject: Linear and Branching Time Temporal Logic
Date: 21 Aug 1992 12:40:32 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Comp. Sc. Dept., FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: i10s7.ira.uka.de

Hello everyone! 

after reading some papers about temporal logic I had some problems to
decide when to use linear time logics and when to use branching time
logics. I decided to read 

"Sometimes" and "Not Never" revisited: On Branching versus Linear Time
Temporal Logic 
by E.a. Emerson and J.Y. Halpern.

Now I'm even more confused. I just want so specify distributed systems.
Can anyone tell me what real life properties can be specified with
linear time logic and which can be specified in branching time logic. 

Regards 
   Armin

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From: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.specification
Subject: Questions on modules and state in BSI VDM
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:06:30 GMT
Organization: Computer Power Software

I have been trying to come to grips with modules and state as described
in "The VDM-SL Reference Guide" by Dawes and now I'm thoroughly confused.

I can import types, values, functions and operations from a module but what do
I do with the state?

Suppose I have a module with a state of many fields and a collection of
operations that operate on various combinations of those fields.  Then in
another module I want to create a variable of the ADT implemented by the
module.  

What is the type that I use for the variable?  
How do I use the post-condition of an operation from the imported module if its
signature refers to fields of the state but I only have a single variable 
containing the state?

The book talks about a notional record type associated with the state but seems
to imply that the type cannot be named or used explicitly yet there is a state
id available to name it.

I would like to have a module that is not an ADT but contains state variables
that are acted on from outside by calling the exported operations.  Is this
possible?  How do I write the post-conditions of such operations in the 
calling module?

The 'using' clause seems to provide a mechanism to operate on state variables.
But it includes a state designator which the book explains as defining "a
record of the same type as the notional state type of the module containing the
definition of Op".  How do I make such an object?  Surely it means
'designating' rather than 'defining' anyway?

It seems that I can only use 'using' with calls to explicitly 
defined operations.  What do I do about implicitly defined operations?

Is there a better explanation of modules (outside of the standard)?

While I'm at it how come function types have to be duplicated
in import and export module signatures all over the place?  In a spec of
practical (non-academic) size one change to a function may mean editing
a large number of modules.  If readability is a concern then a listing
from a CASE tool can include the duplicated signatures. The info is 
mechanically derivable so I shouldn't have to do it.
-- 
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From: charlot@sun3.lri.fr (Francois Charlot)
Newsgroups: comp.specification
Subject: Re: Survey: Formal Methods in Education
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:03:24 GMT
Reply-To: charlot@sun3.lri.fr (Francois Charlot)
Organization: LRI - Univ. Paris-Sud / CNRS URA 410

Fine! It sounds interesting. But I tried to send a request to :

	    info-server@seg.npl.co.uk

and my mailer Daemon didn't like it !!

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 seg.npl.co.uk (smtp)... 550 Host unknown
554 <info-server@seg.npl.co.uk>... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no
data [address])

What can I do ?

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