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From: gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Techno mod spc-hal1.dms uploader...please read.
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 00:01:06 PDT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

amiganer@lisa.cpr.sub.org (Christian-Peter Weiss) wrote:
 
>> also - in the relevence of 300+k mods - go for it. come one people -
>> 512k chip is obsurd.  upgrade to 2meg or at least 1meg. :)  it's been 
out
>> for a long time now, and we have to constantly go forward!
 
>Sorry Dave, I can't do that! (A good known friend of mine said)
>A got an A2000a and there is no abilitiy to upgrade for 1MB or 2MB Chip.
>What do you think about those people? May I'm not allowed to hera those
>sounds? I don't think so.
 
 Briefly, just why is it that YOUR A2000 cannot be outfitted with >.5MB 
chip?  I know several people with at least a meg, and I believe something 
like the MegaChip 2000 is designed to give you 2MB.
 
 No one says you're not allowed to hear those MODs, but do you honestly 
expect everyone to gear down to your level when making a MOD?  At the 
expense of creating better output?  There are far more people than just 
you listening to these things, and many have lots of chip to spare.  I 
would be equally ticked if all MOD composers were to play to the lowest 
common denominator -- something I hear a great many people scream about 
in a lot of other contexts.  This is the price of progress, as we've 
recently seen with the coming of the A4000 in regard to "alienated" A3000 
users (I'm one myself).
 
 After all, if you, for some good reason, can't upgrade, you are in an 
extreme minority.  If it's simply a matter of finances, the above 
paragraph applies to that as well.
 
 I for one don't necessarily want bigger MODs, but better MODs.  That is 
a matter of compositional skills, but if done right, bigger samples means 
better, cleaner samples and that means a better result.  I paid for my 2 
megs of chip, so would I be justified in complaining if all MOD writers 
made no use of it?  Works both ways.
 
 Do what you can to get that extra chip mem, Christian, you know it's 
just a matter of time until you'll almost have to. :)
 
    o   .
 o .  o   o
   o .   .
  __:__:_
 ( gruel )
  \_____/
 

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gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico) 
MIDILine BBS (midiline.la.ca.us) - Altadena CA - (818)797-3285
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell)
Subject: Converting MIDI sequences -> Soundtracker modules
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:19:53 GMT

Like the subject says: I need to take a MIDI sequence file, and turn it into
something that can be played by ProTracker, MED, etc.

Anyone know any software that can do this?

Thanks,

Barry.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: WB sounds
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:49:32 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

>     There's a couple things for 2.0 that do this. One is SoundPrefs,
> which I believe is a commodity and only replaces the beep. The other is
> a utility called "upd" that is provided with ARQ, the requester
> replacement program. ARQ then lets you choose a sampled sound for each
> different ARQ event. ARQ+upd runs best off of a hard drive, or with
> plenty of memeory and the samples in RAM:. They should both be on
> Fish disks. Hope that helps!

  One should note that UPD does not require ARQ to do it's magic, although
  I don't know why anybody wouldn't want to run ARQ.

  My only problem with ARQ is that it always opens it's animated requester
  on the front-most screen.  Sometimes, a drag down a screen halfway to
  de-crunch a file or something.  I'll do something wrong, and the error
  requester will pop up on the screen that has been pulled half-way down,
  not on the screen I am using, and I don't see it because it is below the
  bottom of the monitor.  Then, when I pull the screen up, there is the 
  requester telling me what went wrong.  Does anybody know of a version of
  ARQ that doesn't do this?

Greetings,

	Travis Carter
	slbfn@cc.usu.edu

 
> 
>  Mongoose
>  KUCI-FM, 88.9
> 
>  * Q-Blue v0.7 [NR] *
> --- Maximus 2.00
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: What is available for the classical composer/musician?
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:15:13 GMT
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Oct8.123254.9285@city.cs>, lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
> I have just bought an A3000 for my church. My neighbour would use it
> to aid his composition of classical fugues, songs for pantomimes and
> for hooking to a Roland FP8 digital piano. He has used DMCS recently
> to transcribe a fugue of his and to hear it played, but it seems to
> have limitations and I'm not sure it would give a good printout of
> the score.

Dr. T sells a product that will convert from DMCS format to the Copyist format
after which you can use the Copyist to print.  With The Copyist (commercial,
also by Dr. T), you have the utmost degree of control over your music - think
of it as a desktop publishing package for sheet music.

Electronic Arts is rumoured to be coming out with a new version of DMCS by
year-end.  It may have some of your concerns addressed if you can afford to be
patient.

-- 

Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430
From: kitkowsk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Kenneth Kitkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: WB sounds
Date: 11 Oct 92 20:24:36 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

If I'm not mistaken the ability to play customized sounds upon certain WB
activities is a feature of WB3.0, being shipped w/ the new A4000's.  I haven't
seen this in person but i recall reading it in a discussion of WB3.0.
From: gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: 4-MAT modules
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 07:02:33 PDT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

Hail there, Maruku Buranu.  I am a fan of much of your MOD music -- 
Dimness Verse, Inversement, SC2.MaruCombat1 and Testink especially.  In 
hopes of identifying some more of your work from the huge sea of MODs 
available, I'd appreciate it if you could give myself and anyone else 
who's interested (and they should be!) a complete list of MODs you've 
released.

My ears thank you...

    o   .
 o .  o   o
   o .   .
  __:__:_
 ( gruel )
  \_____/

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gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico) 
MIDILine BBS (midiline.la.ca.us) - Altadena CA - (818)797-3285
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.audio:3636 rec.music.synth:16597
From: dnibby@asylum.UUCP (Dana Nibby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,rec.music.synth
Subject: amiga / midi / med
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:27:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.audio


  I'd like to know if it's possible to control more than one MIDI device
from a tracker such as MED. Can I write MED songs using an external drum 
machine and synth? Do I need a special MIDI interface? What tracker has the
best MIDI support?

   Also, can I load up a bunch of samples into my amiga and send MIDI signals
to the amiga from a synth sequencer to trigger samples? I realize I'll need
a small mixing board to hear the outputs of all three devices.

   What is the least expensive amiga MIDI interface that has two MIDI outputs?
(at least two) Someone mentioned a device or company called MIDImix. I'd
like to order one by mail-order.

 Thanks,

   Dana
From: cm182s182@pdrome.UUCP (Clayton Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Sound on A1000/A2000
Date: 10 Oct 92 10:39:45 GMT
Organization: The PowerDrome BBS [(716)825-3614 Excelsior]
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! v0.960

I just upgraded from my A1000 to an A2000 and I have noticed a differnece in 
the way the two machines play sounds.  On the A1000 the sounds are thicker' 
while on the A2000 the sounds are 'brighter', almost TOO bright.  There is a 
metallic quality to the sounds now.  I am curious as to what is causing the 
difference and what steps I can take to improve the quality of the samples I 
am tring to make now.
 
Skeksis
From: itti@aphrodite.enst.fr (Laurent Itti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Professional Users Wanted
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:39:17 GMT
Organization: Telecom Paris, France



Hello,

we are a group of french engineer students in the fields of computer science,
electronics and telecommunications (Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Telecommunications de Paris), and we have constituted an Amiga user group
(Club Amiga Telecom-Paris).

As one of our members will probably go to Chicago in November 1992, we would like
to know if it would be possible to meet there some 'Professionnal users' of
the Amiga:

We indeed write a series of arcticles in a french Amiga newspaper (Amiga-News),
oriented towards the often-unknown professional use of the Amiga.

Having the opportunity to go to Chicago, we thus would be very interested in
interviewing such users there during November 1992.

That's why we are currently looking for addresses of these users in the area of
Chicago. Could you help us ? Do you know professional users of the Amiga ?

These could be for example :
- any research lab which uses the amiga and made some original developments on it,
- the NASA (which certainly has a department near Chicago),
- some universities which participate in developments on the Amiga (like it is for
the university of South California, Lowell,... in other areas),
- some more 'exotic' things (such as the SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
which seems to use the Amiga for focussing their beams in the area of Stanford...)


So, if you know any professional use of the Amiga made in the area of Chicago,
could you please let us know ?

Thanks a lot.
----------------------
Laurent ITTI, Club Amiga Telecom-Paris
itti@inf.enst.fr
From: jholdern@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (J E Holderness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: WB sounds
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:39:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: casper.BvyzuE.G2I
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town

In <1992Oct8.065812.8857@cs.hut.fi> oahvenla@blob.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi) writes:

>is what I recommend: Arq, which replaces the standard requesters with nice,
>animated ones, UPD, which supports Arq by playing sounds or talking something
>every time an Arq requester comes up, and ToolManager 2.0, with which you can
>get programs ran from hotkeys, menus and/or docks, and associate the last two
>with sounds also... Like "Now attempting to run JR-Comm..." or "I'm afraid
>I can't do that, Dave..." :-) Very nice to tease your PC-using friends with..

Don't want to start a war here, but you might be interested to know that this
can be done just as easily on the PC (under Windows), so your PC friends may
not be that impressed :-)

Regards
James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From:  ()
Subject: Re: Shades CD
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:41:16 GMT

In article <wunner.718729489@nova>, wunner@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Guenter Wunner) writes:
> 
> dave@dogbox.acme.gen.nz writes:
> 
> >Due to continued requests for information about a CD I mentioned I
> >owned, here is a bit of info about Shades by Chris Hulsbeck.
> 
> [info on Shades deleted]
> 
> >It is released by A.U.D.I.O.S Entertainment (Germany) but is marketed
> >and distributed by Factor Five (Germany)
> >I don't have addresses for either company (if someone does, could you
> >please tell me), because I ordered my copy through Newsflash Magazine
> >from UGA Software in Holland.
> 
> I think you can still order the CDs (Shades by Chris Huelsbeck and the
> Jochen Hippel CD from Thalion GmbH (germany)) at the German ASM
> magazine. Adress:
> Tronic-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
> Versand-Service
> Postfach
> D-3440 Eschwege
> West-Germany
> 
> The CDs are:
> Chris Huelsbeck's SHADES-CD		32.95 DM
> Jochen Hippel's GIVE IT A TRY-CD	16.95 DM
> 
> >According to the CD, this is Volume 1.  Anyone know if there is
> >another one due to be released, or if there is any other CD's similar
> >with this style of music.
> 
> Chris is currently creating another CD called "To be on Top Vol.2"
> (remember the old C64 game?). I read this in issue 10/92 of the German
> PowerPlay magazine. It is also said there that this is Chris' third
> CD. Perhaps there's also "To be on Top Vol.1"? BTW, the companies
> Chris is working for have also produced several other CDs, e.g. the
> Apydia-CD.
> 
> Well, hope this helps.
> Bye,
> 	Lukas.
> 
> 
> 
Thanks soooo much ..... I've just send away to that address!!!
(Ain't the net wonderful?!)

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.audio:3644 rec.music.synth:16650
From: fkpec@westminster.ac.uk (fkpec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,rec.music.synth
Subject: CM-32L patch editor/librarian for AMIGA?
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:30:53 GMT
Organization: University of Westminster

Hi!

I've got a ROLAND CM-32L sound module which I use in a MIDI setup along with
an AMIGA 500+. I've been told that the CM32L is programmable (the manual isn't
very clear on this). So is there a patch editor/librarian for the CM32L which
works on the AMIGA?

I was told that X-OR covers the MT-32 (a CM32 compatible) but unfortunately it
 costs over #200 (pounds). Which I can't afford! 8-(

So is there a cheaper program. If not, could someone give me some info on LA
synthesis techniques and how to go about implementing a patch editor. I'm a
good AMIGA 'C' and 68000 programmer. I just don't know much about MIDI!

Any help would be appreciated.

I also have a KORG Poly-800 Mk 2 keyboard synth. Is it possible to edit it
using a patch editor?

Thanks.

LIAKET ALI
From: cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk (Richard O Lavey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Surround Amiga
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:27:36 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

There's also the Roland 3-D sound system. At present, I think Xenon 2 for the CDTV is the only program to use this though !

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From: ralph@bugend.edvina.se (Staffan Vilcans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: ...Whatever happened to...?
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:24:11 GMT
Organization: Bugend BBS

() writes:
(The man with no name?)

> It's as good as done! .. I'll probably put them up to amiga.physik on
> Friday afternoon.

I have recently been able to get things via FTP (a friend of a friend) 
but I need some information on how to do it.

How to log on, what commands to use and so on...

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From: int694l@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (PW Douglas)
Subject: SBPRO to amiga format
Summary: SBPRO to amiga format
Keywords: SBPRO to amiga format
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 06:44:13 GMT

I have various programs that convert from SBPRO to amiga format but how do I
get to use them on the amiga?  I mean how do I copy the amiga format file
onto an amiga formatted disk so I can use it in SoundTracker etc?

Any help would be appreciated

Paul Douglas - int694l@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:53:55 EDT
From: Blaise Tarr <BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: SMUS .instr conversion (smus2mod)

cm182s182@pdrome.UUCP (Clayton Miner) says:
>Could you please expand on this SMUStoMOD utility you mentioned?  I have
>recently gather three new SMUS and they don't seen to do anything so I was
>wondering about conveting them to a different format in hope that would work.

smus2mod, will convert a SMUS file into a MOD, bringing over the instrument
names and octaves, but not the actual samples.  You need to load this new
MOD into a tracker like MED and add the appropriate samples.

>I am also looking for an old utility called Sonixpeek that would let me find
>out what instruments are needed for various songs.

smus2mod will print out the names of the instruments in the SMUS during the
conversion process.

In case you're wondering, smus2mod is available on some FTP sites such as
amiga.physik.unizh.ch and wuarchive.wustl.edu.

Have fun...


       ///  Blaise Tarr
      ///
  \\\///    BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu     "Typically, the subject being copied
   \XX/     tarr@cs.psu.edu           is terminated."   -CSM 101
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: WB sounds
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:06:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.718657567
Organization: University of Washington

In <1992Oct8.104933.59532@cc.usu.edu> slbfn@cc.usu.edu writes:

>  One should note that UPD does not require ARQ to do it's magic, although
>  I don't know why anybody wouldn't want to run ARQ.

Well, I had to remove ARQ from my system because I use my floppy drives a
LOT for keeping a running backup of the work I do on my Harddrive (which isn't
big enough for everything I want to do :<)  


The problem with ARQ is that, quite, frequently, I get a WRITE ERROR ON BLOCK
880, and ARQ will NOT let me cancel the operation!  It continues to grind
away at my floppy and turns it into an NDOS unreadable disk!  (Not good for
backups...)  When I am using the WB version, it will cancel after 2 or 3 tries,
and I can usually recover the info on the disk (by copying it all to another 
disk and then reformatting the "suspect" one).  

My READ/WRITE ERRORS ON BLOCK 880 (as well as CHECKSUM errors)  occur while
using DirWorks 1.62.  The combination of ARQ and DW is deadly to my floppies
when an error occurs.  (I have 1m Agnes and 2m Fast on a 2000 if that's important)

Oh, and the floppies are usually new and have not been written to more than a
couple of times before the errors occur.  I'd like to register my Dirworks,
but not until I can be assured that the copy/move to floppy instability has
been fixed.  (Then I'll go back to ARQ and add the sounds I've collected. :>)


>  My only problem with ARQ is that it always opens it's animated requester
>  on the front-most screen.  Sometimes, a drag down a screen halfway to
>  de-crunch a file or something.  I'll do something wrong, and the error
>  requester will pop up on the screen that has been pulled half-way down,
>  not on the screen I am using, and I don't see it because it is below the
>  bottom of the monitor.  Then, when I pull the screen up, there is the 
>  requester telling me what went wrong.  Does anybody know of a version of
>  ARQ that doesn't do this?

>Greetings,

>	Travis Carter
>	slbfn@cc.usu.edu

> 
>> 
>>  Mongoose
>>  KUCI-FM, 88.9
>> 
>>  * Q-Blue v0.7 [NR] *
>> --- Maximus 2.00
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: ibsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Bernd Sieker)
Subject: Re: Surround Amiga
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 09:56:54 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <1992Oct14.142542.202@hubcap.clemson.edu>, charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
|> 
|> The sound comes not only from the left or right, but from the front and back
|> as well .... i.e. the sound from a monster that is behind you and to the 
|> right should come from behind you and to the right.  I'm referring specifically
|> to Dolby surround .... which is what the original poster had in mind. (and
|> as far as I know isn't implemented in any Amiga games)
|>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                     certainly not, see below


As far as I know, for Surround Sound you need at least four speakers
or (as has become possible only within the last few years (three or so))
an enormous effort in programming a DSP or similar device.

The main problem about finding out what is behind you and what is in front
of you is that it is different for everyone. It strongly depends on the
shape of the ear and the way, different frequencies of the original
sound signal are filtered by the outer part of the ear (and head,
shoulders).

Moreover there are specific phase shifts for different frequencies,
that are also different for every person. To interpret these filterings
and phase shiftings correctly to tell, where a sound comes from is
learned in the first few years of life.

A well known firm of audio products (I think, it was AKG) developped a
psycho acoustic processor to simulate the sound of high end speakers
via headphones. Usually, headphones cannot give you any information about
what is behind and what is in front of you. This Processor (not in the meaning
of CPU but of the whole device) Can make you hear exacly like if you were
listening to speakers, but only, if it has exact data about the way your
ear (and head, shoulders etc.) filters and phase shifts the sound.

These data are gained by measering your ear directly with a micro-microphone
put directly in front of the membrane.

I hope this made clear that real surround cannot be done on a standard
(not even a turbo) amiga without a DSP and excellent programming.


-- 

Bernd Sieker, Universitaet Bielefeld,
naturwissenschaftliche Informatik

Internet Address: ibsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
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From: Eric_H_Gieseke@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Eric H Gieseke)
Subject: Re: Surround Amiga
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.25b beta (Oct 07 1992)
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:37:55 CDT
Organization: The Flying Circus BBS, San Antonio, TX


I have found that by hooking a common Stereo Chorus Guitar foot pedal to
y Amiga I get an Extremely good sound output of Amiga Sound...All you
need is a Y type adaptor to convert Amiga L and R cables to one mono RCA
or Input Jack...Put that input into the Foot Padal and Use the Modulated
Phase Stereo Output to go to your Stereo System.....I'ts Great and It only
cost about $30 for the Petal...   Wus going to get a complete effects
board for $450 now I think I can live with This Setup for a'while...
BTW the quality is VERY Bright and Clear...Incredible For an Amiga and I
use it to record some of my Amiga MODs on Cassette...
Lates!S.W.  *Amiga.....my Amazing Musical Increible Graphical Axe.


*SideWinder the Camel Jockey Extrordinaire*
-- 
Eric_H_Gieseke@fcircus.sat.tx.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Eriksen)
Subject: Re: ...Whatever happened to...?
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 08:49:32 GMT

>It's as good as done! .. I'll probably put them up to amiga.physik on
>Friday afternoon.

Thanx a lot!

>P.S. Do you want me to put up the bionic commandos music too??

Yeah, would be cool, I've only heard it on the C64. (And it was great!)

Morten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio