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From: wright@rain.cs.odu.edu (LET'S DO EDUCATION)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Waveform/oscilloscope program?
Date: 22 Jan 93 05:30:52 GMT
Distribution: comp.music
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

Hi!!

I was wondering if anyone new of a program for the Macintosh which would
allow one to visually see the waveform of their music.  I know Opcode
has Studio Vision, but I am looking for something not quite as ellaborate.

Thanks in advance for help!

Wright
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: v035550@stortek.com (Steve Monroe)
Subject: ELCO part numbers in Alesis ADAT?
Originator: v035550@stcvax
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.  Louisville, CO
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:43:36 GMT

H E L P!                                                                        
                                                                                
Does ANYONE know the ELCO part number for                                       
the connector used in the Alesis ADAT????                                       
                                                                                
Both male and female part numbers appreciated...                                
                                                                                
Please respond via email.                                                       
                                                                                
sjm                                                                             
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: furio@uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Subject: Re: Winter NAMM '83
Reply-To: furio@uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Organization: MRL - UIUC
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:53:53 GMT

In article <C1FHLr.Gp6@esri.com>, tapas@esri.com (Tapas Das) writes:
|>Valhala, the mail-order only, sound company was looking for
|>dealers.  Probably you would be able to check out their sound cards
|>at a local dealer soon, before you decide to buy them.

And hopefully you would get better support in case something
goes wrong :-/  (I received defective diskettes from them in
august 1991, and in 18 months l was not able to get in contact 
with anything resembling a customer service).

--
furio ercolessi    <furio@uiuc.edu>*    <furio@sissa.it>+
* materials research lab, uni illinois at urbana-champaign
+ intl school for advanced studies, trieste, italy   

"Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency"
                                      [ Brian Eno, "Oblique Strategies" ]
From: mtressle@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Somalia Holiday)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Cakewalk/SCXXX ftp site on cs.uwp.edu
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:26:12 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana



	I uploaded several cakewalk for windows files to cs.uwp.edu.
These can be found under: /pub/music/midi (I think). One file contains
SYSEX messages specifically for the Roland SC sound modules: Random Panning,
setting channels 15 and 16 to Drum parts, a few chorus changes, a reset,
and maybe one or two others. 
	Another file is a text file on accessing non capital tones through
Cakewalk. And finally, there is a .wrk song which I wrote which uses a
few of these. 
	I didn't write any of the files (Other than the song and explanation
files). However, if you have any questions, send them my way. Also, if you
have any other sysexes or little help files, put them there. 


mike
mtressle@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
mtressle@lovelace.bsu.edu
00MBTRESSLER@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu

_I_ want a piece of MEAT!
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs)
Subject: MIDI/software books
Summary: Need recommendations for a univ. library coll. on MIDI/softw.
Keywords: MIDI notation sequencing books
Organization: UNLV
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:25:22 GMT

To all-

I'm putting together a list of recommended books dealing with MIDI and 
microcomputer software (sequencing, notation, all platforms) to beef up a 
university library's collection in those areas. I wonder if any of you would 
be willing to take a moment to email me a list of your favorite books on 
these subjects. I'll be happy to post a summary when the suggestions stop 
flowing in <g>.

Thanks for your time,
Lamont Downs
downs@helios.nevada.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.sys.ibmpc.soundcard
From: spinaa@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson)
Subject: GUS + simple MIDI keyboard =? viable system
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:56:02 GMT

Hi, sorry for the newbie question, but I was wondering how useful the Gravis
Ultrasound is for use in a PC-based MIDI setup. I was thinking of getting
a very basic MIDI keyboard controller (hopefully velocity/pressure sensitive)
and using the GUS both as a MIDI interface and a sound source. Mainly, my
questions is: how versatile is the GUS as a wavetable synth? Can it be used
satisfactorily in a velocity-sensitve setup? Are there any limitations I shoul
know about? Are patches for it readily-available?

The reason I am interested in this setup is that I am $$-constrained.   :(
Also, this would be a starter system, so I wouldn't want to splurge on a
good synth right away. I *do*, however, want something that can reasonably
simulate playing a real piano.

Any e-mail advice would be greatly appreciated.

-Matt
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject: Re: Sequential Circuits' Prophet Question
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:17:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.235426.22406@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, lad9452@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
|> Back in the 80's, all I wanted was a Prophet 2000.  I think it was mostly
|> because of the Talking Heads' "Remain in Light."
|> 
|> Anyway, I notice Prophets for sale in the swap sheets from time to time,
|> and I'd like to find out more about these synths.  Any recommendations
|> out there?
|> 
|> Which of the Prophet series has MIDI capability?

Check my previous posting (Analog FAQ). Wine Country Productions
sells and supports Sequential products (WCP was formed by ex-Sequential
techies when it went belly up). They also refurbish and sell
synths. Get their free catalog - I remember seeing that they do sell
Prophet 2000s.
From: csk@po.CWRU.Edu (Carl S. Kashuk)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Atari 1040ST systems for sale: built in MIDI ports!
Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:12:14 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Two 1040St systems for sale:
        1040ST, 1 meg memory, Atari SC1224 monitor, Golden
Image mouse. $400 or best offer

        1040ST, 1 meg memory, Atari SC1224 monitor, Golden
Image mouse, external 5 1/4 disk drive, and the following
software: Falcon, Mavis Beacon typing, Hostage. $600 or best
offer. Also available free: null modem cable for playing Falcon
head-to-head combat with another ST!

We would really like to unload these systems; they have built-in
MIDI ports and are perfect for music applications.
Prices negotiable, if interested, send mail to Carl Kashuk
(csk@po.cwru.edu)
-- 
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world
                        -Stuart Smalley (Al Franken)
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:08:46 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.music
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk
To: usenet@phaze.cam.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Winter NAMM 1983

tdas@esri.com writes:
>
>Alesis showed off their new Synthesizer and Mixer unit.
>The synthesizer has 64 note polyphony, an industry first.

Yamaha TG500.

>Should be out in a few months.

Ho hum. What was the time schedule last year?

>However, the most intriguing and innovative product was the
>HOLTZs Midi Translator.  This product was displayed in the 
>Atari booth, by Jimmy Holtz, the inventor himself.  This device
>will revolutionize the way we trigger midi sound sources. 

Now, *this* sounds interesting!

Cheers,

Ross-c
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: bblank@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Bryan S. Blank(FIRN))
Subject: Help with .mod
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 02:06:52 GMT

	Does anybody know of a big archive of .mod files?  Please reply
via email as I don't read this newsgroup.  Thanks

					--Bryan

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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: ramirez.Princeton.EDU!penrose (Christopher Penrose)
Subject: Re: Casey Kasem wrote and boy is he pissed...
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: copyright is an anachronism
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:50:17 GMT


Copyright is an anachronism.  Originality, among social beings, is always
shared.  If you disagree with this sentiment, produce an example of isolated
originality.

First U2:

U2's work is based upon thousands of years of effort, by millions of
individuals.  U2's song "products" are dependent upon the English
language.  They did not develop this alone.  A U2 song is dependent
upon musical instruments that they did not develop themselves.  U2's
musical content is dependent upon a harmonic language which they did
not themselves invent.  Under current law, U2 can have economic rights
to a particular configuration of information within an information
context that is distributed among a vast history of effort.  Here is a
self-quote from an essay concerned with originality:

"Originality in other words, is simply a connection mapping of
history.  All creative efforts and products are affected by histories
which are greater in scope than the isolated history of the credited
"creator"; thus, a creator is but an *endpoint* in the history of a
particular creation.  All restrictions upon information, through
institutions based on the notion of ownership are bunk.  There is no
justification for isolated ownership of information as its
teleological field, and thus its ownership, is distributed through
human history.  Copyright law cannot be justified in its present
terms."

U2 has no right to restrict their own configurations of information;
their music is based upon theft (in their terms) or appropriation (my
terms).  Though I have not been allowed (through commercial channels)
to hear the song in question, Negativland seems to have used U2's work
in the same appropriating manner that U2 has used instrumentation,
song structure, harmony, touring, and other cultural gifts.  U2 is
blatantly exploiting our antiquated copyright laws for economic gain,
and they have damaged the efforts of Negativland to engage in cultural
exchange.


Kasey has an interesting case, but it is more fun to roast him:

All I can say that he let the cat out of the bag.  I see no legal
precedent for his neurotic want to confine his public and private
selves.  If someone manages to hear him say: "Golly! I wish I could
say 'fuck' and really mean it!"  then it is too late.  Lighten up
Kasey!  Even George Bush, the grand wizard of whiners, managed to
invite Dana Carvey to the White house.  Remember, we will have the
technology, sooner or later, to imitate human voices.  Uh oh.

We cannot own our words: diaries, voices, etc., if they are heard by
others; the ownership is implicitly shared among those who listen.
Otherwise, people would have the legal right to delete their presence
in other people's minds through brain surgery and psychiatric drugs.


Civilization is an information community, not an information prison.


Christopher Penrose
penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu
From: sdo@piccolo.East.Sun.COM (Scott Oaks - Sun Consulting NYC)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Finale PostScript output -> Unix Posts
Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:47:35 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: sdo@piccolo.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: piccolo.east.sun.com

In article 5758@infodev.cam.ac.uk, amd@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Andrew Dunn) writes:
> 
> I haven't tried this particular combination of software, but printing
> Macintosh generated postscript files on a Unix network is quite a
> common problem. Have you tried using macps written by Edward Moy? This
> adds a copy of Apple's LaserPrep macros to your postscript file before
> it gets to the printer. On the Mac, this is normally handled by the
> System which down loads a resident copy of LaserPrep to the Laserwriter the
> first time you print a file. I imagine that you would still need the 
> `include fonts with listing' option in Finale, but not epsf output. 

You do *not* need macps or any other program to print Finale output on a Unix
Postscript printer, because the postscript output of Finale does not depend
on the LaserPrep files.  In fact, if you include the LaserPrep files with the
Finale output, it will not work.

The hard part is to get all the fonts onto your Unix box.  If you have the later
versions of Finale which comes with Type-1 postscript fonts (Petrucci), then you 
need a utility to translate the font into ASCII-based postscript; there's a program
called unAdobe or something similar on sumex-aim.stanford.edu which will do this,
and there are other programs as well.  If you have earlier versions with Type-2
fonts, then the data fork already has the ASCII-based postscript font and you 
can just download that.  If you have other fonts, you'll need to do something
similar.

Then simply use the Compile Postscript option in Finale to generate the file;
do not specify epsf or include fonts with listing.  Transfer the generated file
and the ASCII-based fonts to your UNIX machine, cat them all together, and send
them to the printer.

-sdo
   
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Sun Microsystems	(scott.oaks@sun.com)
From: ssurhode@susssys1.rdg.ac.uk (Paul Rhodes)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Weighted keys
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:32:14 GMT
	<1jk6lgINNh8i@calvin.usc.edu> <1993Jan21.155107.21427@ns.network.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Reading University, England

Okay. After talking with some people, I've found out I was asking the
wrong question. I should actually be asking about weighted keyboards
and not actually hammered keyboards. 

The only weighted keyboard I've actually seen is the Roland A30, which
retails for 500 pounds in the UK. What are the opinions of this beast
? Are there any other keyboards about, around the same price (or
cheaper!)

thanks in advance.

Paul Rhodes
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: piperno@titan.Colorado.EDU (Serge Piperno)
Subject: Key frequencies.
Reply-To: piperno@boulder.Colorado.EDU
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:00:47 GMT

Can anyone tell me what key frequencies are pre-set 
on currently-sold (Yamaha-Korg-Roland, etc...) keyboards?

Are they well-tempered?
Or which fifths or fourths are respected??

Thanks, Serge.


Newsgroups: comp.music
From: peterc@dub-tse.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Peter Cassidy)
Subject: TEST - IGNORE !
Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:32:41 GMT

Blah Blah !!!!

-- 
Peter Cassidy - Motorola B.V Ireland - peterc@comm.mot.com - C10404@email

The opinions expressed above are mine, and not necessarily those of Motorola.
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu
Subject: Re: Computer scored music
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit MI  U.S.A.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:45:37 GMT

wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
 
>Does anyone have software that will write music- I don't mean just
>let a user write it, but the software itself write the music?
>I heard some stuff by EMI, which emulates Mozart, and it was
>amazing! Anyone got anything like this?
 
This may not be the answer you were looking for, but...
 
Aliens implanted transistors in my brain, and now my
computer tells me what to do. I flip a few switches,
turn a few knobs, and -- voila! Instant music!
 
I better go now
 
 
--Eric
 
eiverso@cms.cc.wayne.edu  "I'm the Inman    And I'm keen
Detroit, Michigan  USA     I've a mind    Like a machine"
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: macpherson@earvax.waisman.wisc.edu
Subject: SongWright 5.1  Landscape printing?
Organization: Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 20 JAN 93 21:07:40 CST


Does anyone know whether the new version of SongWright (5.1) will allow
scores to be printed in landscape mode? I want to use it for bagpipe music,
and leaving space for the (many) gracenote symbols leads to serious crowding.

Thanks,
ewan.

Ewan        | Hearing Development Research Lab    |
Macpherson  | Waisman Center, Rm. 310, UW-Madison | "You can't call me
 ph: (608)- | 1500 Highland Ave.                  |  'Man'! This is 1978!"
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 20:27:19 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.music
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk
To: usenet@phaze.cam.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Music Software for Unix/Indigo?

Re: Any free music software available for the Silicon graphics Indigo.

I have written two programmes available via ftp. One is a vocal erasor,
using left/right cancellation + filtering and the other is a realtime pitch
transposer (e.g. sound goes in the input and comes out the output transposed).
Both are available from louie.udel.edu in the directory pub/music/software/unix
(which I think is otherwise empty).

Cheers,

Ross-c
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: saswlb@spruce.unx.sas.com (Bill Brideson)
Subject: Patch and Sample Editors for Ensoniq KS-32
Originator: saswlb@spruce.unx.sas.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:06:15 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


   I'm under the impression that the synth engine in the KS-32 is the
same one that's in the SQ-1, SQ-2, and SQ-R.  Is that correct?

   It seems to me that if that's true, I should be able to assume that
any patch or sample editor that says it works with an SQ synth should
do fine with a KS-32.  Am I missing something?

   If one must use a different patch or sample editor with a KS-32,
would you like to make a recommendation?

   Thanks is advance.

-- 
Bill Brideson, saswlb@unx.sas.com, 919-677-8000
SAS Institute, Inc.,  SAS Campus Drive,  Cary,  NC  27513
"There are people who think that everything one does with
a serious face is sensible." (18th cent.)
From: mikhil@Prag.docs.uu.se (Mikael Hillborg)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: E-mu's Vintage Keys
Keywords: E-mu, analog
Date: 22 Jan 93 08:10:26 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Uppsala University
NNTP-Posting-Host: prag.docs.uu.se

raywb@ornl.gov (W. Brian Ray) writes:

[...]
>The ad also states that it contains "32 of our dynamic analog-
>sounding digital filters to give you the kind of expressive control
>these instruments are famous for."  But aren't the filters on these
>older synths what gave them their distinctive sound?  For example,
>would a Minimoog still sound like a Minimoog without Moog filters? 
>I guess I'm afraid Vintage Keys may get close, but not quite live
>up to my expectations of what a classic analog synth should sound
>like.

>Brian Ray
>raywb@ornl.gov
>Oak Ridge, TN


You're absolutely right! The filters on these older synths were the primary
cause of their unique and warm sound. I don't think that this vintage keys module
will replace the machines it tries to emulate. It may be a good sounding module but
I don't think it will replace the sound of for example a moog modular system,
an ARP 2600 or the unique sounding filters of a Fairlight CMI. 
But hey, perhaps many people new in the world of synthesis will think it could replace
them and then the prices of these wonderful pure analog machines will get lower :-)

Mikael Hillborg, Computer Science student at
  __        __  _
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: s39201e@saha.hut.fi (Jouko Huhtala)
Subject: Tracker prog. for SBPro ?????
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:24:05 GMT


Is there any tracker progs which support 44.1 Khz ????
Or maybe 8-track ?????


T: Jokke   E-mail jhuhtala@vipunen.hut.fi

 ' When things run smooth, it's already more than enough. '
							- M.L.Gore
From: hcorbin@uswnvg.com (Harold Corbin)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Computer Music
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:49:11 GMT
Organization: U S WEST NewVector Group, Inc.
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I have an Amiga 500 for sale, including MIDI interface and Bars and Pipes PRO
sequencing software.  You will need a keyboard or other source for sounds, but
this is an excellent system for your basic needs and the price is right =$300.

Interested?
From: pan@pannet.UUCP (The PAN Network)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: RE: Intern with producers... 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 00:26:28 EDT
Organization: The PAN Network
Reply-To: mastermix@pan.com



Joey,

Why don't you just start your *own* production company?


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From: aalpern@hamp.hampshire.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Computer scored music
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:40:23 EDT
Organization: Hampshire College
Distribution: inet
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In article <2236@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have software that will write music- I don't mean just 
> let a user write it, but the software itself write the music?
> I heard some stuff by EMI, which emulates Mozart, and it was
> amazing! Anyone got anything like this?

I've written seberal programs which write music from chaotic non-linear
dynamical systems. They write some very interesting music, although not as 
complexx as something which could emulate Mozart, which was probably done with
a rule-based generative grammar type system. Algorithmic composition is a very
interesting field, and you should check out the COmputer Music Journal
(published by MIT Press), if you want to learn more.

-Adam
aalpern@hamp.hampshire.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music