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Subject: Re: Looking for band in a box files
From: forresti@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:42:49 GMT

In article <01GQO8VIT1DS001NDQ@UWSTOUT.EDU>, HODGES@UWSTOUT.BITNET writes:
> I am looking for a source of music files
> compatable with the Band In A Box program.
>I may be able to help you I have about 1.5 meg of band in a box files
all pretty radical rock and roll stuff, if you are interested
reply to Iforrest@cmutual.com.au ,I think it would be better to
whack a disk in the post as I can only transfer files via kermit
at 100cps, are you using an atari to run biab 
L8R - Ian.F.  
> I work with disabled individuals, one of who is
> interested in this program.

> Please send any ideas to
> "Hodges@uwstout.edu"
> Both my client and I thank you for your assistance.
> 
> Brad Hodges
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From:         "(Simon Weatherill)" <simon@HYPERION.COAT.COM>
Subject:      real name for GR-50
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I'm trying to remember the other name for Roland's GR-50.  The GR-50
(MIDI Guitar) is built around another Roland synth, but I can't
remember what it is.  It's not in any of the documentation that I have
either.  Can someone please tell me what is really behind a GR-50?
Thanks.


				Simon A.T. Weatherill
				Senior Network Engineer

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From:         Rudy <rudy@ENG.FIU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Please remove me
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Please remove me
From: mccalld@SONOMA.EDU
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Subject: Re: Which Midi Card for PC
Date: 5 Nov 92 02:45:07 GMT
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 18:39:21 -0800
From: mccalld@Sonoma.EDU
To: mailer::"<mailer::"<@vtvm2.cc.vt.edu:emusic-l@auvm.bitnet>">"
Subject: Re: Which MIDI Card for PC?

About Soundblasters, mine allows me to record while listening to previous
tracks! I am using Voyetra Gold and a simle SB 1.5 on my XT Clone 9mhz....
I havn't had any problems. Not only that, but I have mixed the channel 2
Soundblaster sounds thru some effects, ie zoom 9000, and then mixed the other
sounds direct, like into my K1 or my CZ1000.....
dmc
mccalld@sonoma.edu
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Date:         Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:30:00 +0800
From:         H8710244@HKUCC.HKU.HK
Subject:      About MOD files
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Dear subscribers,

                 Do you know if there is any document describing the file
 formatof MOD files? Please tell me if you find one. Thank you in anticipation.

from,
Roland
h8710244@hkucc.hku.hk
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From:         Nick Rothwell <cassiel@CASSIEL.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Cor, shoestring synthesis
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Went to an interesting contemporary dance show last night. (What else, you
ask. It's been a week of shows, networking and so on.) Piece by Marisa
Zanotti, who is now (if my network informs me correctly) is freelancing as
choreographer across in Glasgow. And who has a tape from me...

Sunken ballrooms, screen heroines, etc. And the music: moving fragments of
operatic works and symphonies, distance echoes and loops of evocative,
ghostly sounds. All done live. Really, really effective. One of the best
contemporary dance soundtracks I've heard in a long while. I had a chat
with the composer/performer afterwards to ask what he was using to make the
music. Answer: two cheap record decks, two cheap cassette decks, a toy
Casio sampler, a stomp-box delay and a couple of cheap mixers.

Well, that cuts me down to size.

Nick.
From: csm2747@NEBRWESLEYAN.EDU ((Chad S. Mawson))
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Date: 5 Nov 92 02:50:00 GMT
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SUB RMUSIC-L Chad Mawson
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From:         ronin <HARNDEN@AMERICAN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: LAPC-1 MCB-1
              2 Nov 1992 09:05:15 CST from <mcolicos@NBA19.MED.UTH.TMC.EDU>

i don't know what the LAPC-1 is, but if the DCB connector that
you refer to is part of Roland's old communication standard, you can
forget just wiring a midi-dcb interface yourself. midi is a serial
data communications standard entirely distinct from the parallel mechanism
developed by roland for its dcb system. you'd need to capture, translate,
and re-emit the data, requiring at least a small microprogrammed processor.

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From: jimi@IMADA.OU.DK (Finn Hessellund)
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Please remove me from this mailing list.

Thanks.

jimi@imada.ou.dk

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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:46:35 CST
From:         GE2516@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU
Subject:      LAPC etc.
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I'm no expert, but I believe the LAPC is an MT32 on a PC card with an MPU401
interface.  I'm sorry I can't help any further--anyone else have any ideas?


    Eric Nielsen                              GE2516@siucvmb.siu.edu
University Electronic                      Southern Illinois University
   Communications                                 at Carbondale
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Advice and suggestions from listowner

Several points.

1. This list is unmoderated, and always will be.  I will never own a moderated
or edited list.  I just don't do it.

2. This list is sent to some 165 readers in 12 countries.  One of those
"readers" is a Usenet feed, which makes it available to thousands of
other sites around the world as bit.listserv.advanc-l.

3. I believe in a free and open exchange of information among users and
between users and Geac.  I believe it would be useful for Geac to reply
to suggestions, questions, and so forth.

4. I believe in airing our frustrations and emotions when needed, but
hope that we can always be civil and professional in these expressions.

5. I hope that the list will remain committed to sharing our ideas, our
successes, our failures.  Although frustrations and problems have dominated
lately (which seems to me to be human nature....how often to patrons come
to circ and thank you for sending them an overdue notice) I'm glad to see
some positive comments as well.  We need to remember that we and our
vendor are in the same boat, and shooting too many holes in the boat
imperils both parties; I am NOT interested in drowning.

6. There may be some things better left to private mail, whether email
or snailmail.  These things may include specific contractual or financial
arrangements between a vendor and its clients.  Some contracts may even
include specific nondisclosure clauses, which one may violate by
discussing a specific contract in any public forum, including this one.
Never say anything on a list that you wouldn't say in public with thousands
in the audience.

7. Some things that are of interest to only a few listmembers, such as
particular contractual wording, for example, should perhaps better be
handled as carbon copies to the ones involved.

8. I too have had frustrating experiences with Geac's accounting
department, and it sometimes seems that they don't really know what
and when they should be billing.  However, mailing or faxing appropriate
reminders to account managers or others has always gotten the accounting
and billing people straightened out without too much difficulty.

9. Take what you like and leave the rest.  Your mileage may vary.

dan

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From:         "Larry N. Osborne" <OSBORNE@UHUNIX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Cataloging module

Kai Stoeckenius:
 >
 > After monitoring the GEAC ADVANCE user's list for about three months, I have
 > found very little discussion of the ADVANCE cataloging module.  We are
 > exploring implementation of cataloging on ADVANCE at Boise State and would
 > be interested in the experiences of other libraries who have, or are con-
 > sidering using the ADVANCE cataloging module for inputting records.

Kai,

I don't work for a living any more (I teach here at the University of
Hawaii's School of Library and Information Studies), but I was a
practicing cataloger for nigh on to 15 years, using OCLC primarily.  I
think that the reason nobody comments on Geac's cataloging module is
that it's by far the best in the business.  We do an entire advanced
cataloging course (no pun intended) using ADVANCE, along with minor
exercises in OCLC, Bibliofile, and Catalog+ (for the school types).

As far as I can see, Geac is the only vendor who takes authority
control seriously.  The system works as advertised, and in over five
years of students doing their best to break it, we've only had one
crash (and frankly I suspect that was my fault).  The students learn
the vertical placement of subfields first, and hate it when they have
to move to OCLC's horizontal fields ... although given OCLC's
communications and hardware limitations I don't fault them.  BY the
time the students finish the course they are in the position of
knowing how a system _should_ work, and are thus able to adjust to
almost any other system just by _not_ using what they know (e.g.
forgetting about the ADVANCE direct authority/bib link and adjusting
to OCLC's cut and paste approach).

OF course nothing is perfect.  We're using 3.0, and I've never gotten
the data sucker to work; I don't like the fact that if you delete the
last bib item attached to an authority record that authority record
disappears, and so on.  But for my purposes those are minor
inconveniences.

On an aside, I think those who bewail circ's complicated and arcane
structure might be blaming the wrong people.  I think we (UH) were the
alpha site for circ, and much of the weirdness is due to pressure on
our part to make ADVANCE implement exactly our elaborate circ
structure, although I understand that 4.0 might have rationalized
things a little.

-oz

PS: if you are looking for pre-trained ADVANCE librarians you might
let us know, we have some really excellent students graduating in
December and next summer.

osborne@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu (preferred)      | Larry N Osborne
osborne@uhunix.bitnet                           | SLIS, 2550 The Mall
fax +1 808 956 5835                             | University of Hawaii at Manoa
or via W.A.S.T.E.                               | Honolulu, Hawaii  96822
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Greetings all!  I'm on ADVANC-L to gather information.  We have a Geac
9000 with no authority control, and are about to look for our next system.
Advance seemed to be the best available at this time, with Innopac a close
second.  However, I am distressed by some of the messages that I see
regarding communication problems with Geac.  I have 2 questions;
        1.  Does Geac staff ever look at ADVANC-L?  They never seem to
answer any questions when they'd be the most knowledgeable about the
problem
.  This DG may be for the Users Group, but Geac should play some
role in it, I think.
        2.  Does Geac have a problem with giving feedback?  If you ask
them for a fix, do they tell you right away (or soon) that they'll work
on it and the problem is ...?  If you ask them for an enhancement or
correction or change, do they respond promptly (or at all)?  The message
that prompted my communication today seemed to indicate that they just
went ahead and changed something without checking with the requestor.

If we would have a continuation of problems I've heard about Geac in the
past, maybe Innopac would be a better choice.  In case anyone from Geac
is listening, COMMUNICATION is one of your most important products (and
I don't mean the "used car salesman" kind of talk).

I am only one player on what will be a large team effort to choose a new
system.  However, I think the communication problem would be an important
consideration.  Proper communication involves:
        1.  Prompt feedback.  "We got your problem/request."
        2.  Checking to be certain the request/problem is fully understood.
"Did you say/mean ...?"
        3.  Indication of the nature of the fix required and its projected
time considerations.  "In order to fix this, we'll have to ...; it should
take ... weeks."
        4.  Followup. "We fixed your problem; check it to be certain
everything's OK, and let us know ..."

And of course keeping in touch during the fix time period.  If you don't
let me know how you're doing, I'm going to call and "nag" you.

Thanks for listening!  I'm still watching these messages.

        Frank Sadowski, Head, Catalog Department
        University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library
        FSDW@db1.cc.rochester.edu   FSDW@uordbv.bitnet
From: I003@POLYTEC1.BITNET (Minh-Thu Nguyen)
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Many thanks to Hye Ok Park and Matt Goldner for your answers to my
questions on backups and processors. I see that we are lucky in the
fact that our backups & verifies take only about 3 hours every night.
I agree with Matt that verify must check against disk data, that is
what Geac wants us to do in GLIS too. However, when we are short of
time, we have options to do simpler verifications. Maybe the cpio
command also has different options for verifying backups?

I would like to add that we want staff to do their own printing of
purchase orders, claims and notices because we have preprinted forms
for these, and the forms must be fed before printing.
It is less important to have our notices printed on plain paper at
the beginning, but our order form must look like the one used at our
parent institution.

Until next time...
Minh-Thu Nguyen (ms.)
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From:         Minh-Thu Nguyen <I003@POLYTEC1.BITNET>
Subject:      questions: backup & cal. processing

Hello everyone!
We now reached the point in the implementation where we have to make
schedule for overnight jobs. I have questions concerning 2 main areas:
backups and calendar processing.

BACKUPS:
Probably as do many sites, we have 2 cassette units: 150 MB and 2.3 GB
to make backups. Geac advised us to backup / and /usr in the 150 MB
unitand Universe/ADVANCE in the Exabyte, every night. My questions:
- how many full weeks do you keep, if full backups are done every night?
- do you keep any backup in off-site storage? and which ones?
- since there is no way to recover data added since your last full back-
  up (I understand so), is there anything that we can do to make things
  easier if we need to restore, say after a disk failure?

CALENDAR PROCESSING:
- is there any problem if two calendar processors (ex. circ and acq) are
  running jobs at the same time during the night?
- is it possible that the job you schedule for 5:00 am starts when the
  one scheduled at 4:30 am is still running, and what would happen then?
  (or jobs run sequentially one AFTER another?)
- do you schedule all calendar jobs after the backups?
- we plan to run PO, notices, etc. during the night and have staff do
  their own printing when it is convenient to them. However, in order to
  do this, they need to have acces to the same menu where jobs can be
  executed, or is there any other way?

A few extra questions:
- what are your practices concerning staff running their own reports?
  is it allowed or is it not? is it allowed during the daytime?
- am I right in saying that all the standard reports DO NOT update data
  in the system? How do one kill such a job if necessary?

I will appreciate any advice or comment you can give. Thank you for your
co-operation. Please leave your phone mumber if possible.
Minh-Thu Nguyen
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