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From: theodore-michael@yale.edu (Michael Theodore)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Midi-file Parser and Performer
Date: 12 Nov 1992 10:52:43 -0500
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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I'm looking for code in any language (though C, Lisp or Pascal would be in
order of preference) that reads Midi files and squirts them to midi-out. 
I'm looking in particular for code that's based on Mac hardware (as this
procedure is very platform-dependent). Please e-mail responses - I'll
post whatever turns up. Many thanks for helpful code! 

-- 
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		theodore-michael@cs.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: tak@core.rose.hp.com (Tom Keaveny)
Subject: Re: Finale vs. Others...  SBPro vs. ProAudio
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 02:28:43 GMT
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
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I've been fairly satisfied with Finale, aside from a few minor quirks,
and lack of online help.  I'm doing lead sheets and some choral work,
as well as using some of the program's sequencing capabilities.  I've
had very good success with lead sheets, and after some trial and error,
with the sequencing/transcription.  Adding and changing lyrics still
tends to be an adventure.  Although it required a toll call on my part,
Coda'sCoda's support staff has been fairly helpful; actually one of their
sales/marketing folks has provided the best technical responses.  From
the few times I have wandered into CompuServe, it appears that they also
provide fairly good feedback their, as well.  Whether waiting on hold
to Minnesota, or paying CompuServe forum charges is less expensive
is unclear.

As far as other transcription software is concerned,
I had a demo of Music Printer Plus, but it was rather unforgiving of
my "expressive" playing style; Finale's "you tap your own toes" mode
is a real advantage, at least for me.
I also had a demo from Alla Breve called Musicad(sp?) which was pretty
useless.
I tested out Encore at a local music store, but it was on a Mac.  I was
a little wary since it took the salesperson a couple of weeks before
he could get it to run on the IBM.
I was steered away from Dr. T, by a number of mail-order houses.


As far as installing the PAS16, the only problem I ran into was not
paying enough attention to the IRQ assignments.  Otherwise, it was pretty
straightforward.  I am reserving judgment on the overaIl quality of
the package at this point.

Most of the games (I only have 4) sound very good, with the exception
of Wordtris, which seems to use extremely attenuated sound levels.  This
could be an artifact of the Spectrum Holobyte program.

The text-to-speech program, Monolog, came from the "sveedish" school
of pronunciation, and makes some annoying chirps at the end of some files.
It doesn't appear to be easily "batchable", and the distributor, First
Byte, hasn't responded to my technical requests.   I hope I can find better.

The DOS based sequencer (name escapse me now) seems intriguing at first 
glance.   The instrument quality, though, must be 2 or 4 operator, because
even though the instrument was labeled as a "piano", I had my doubts... 
(I guess I'm spoiled by PCM).  I am hoping that there is some way to use 
the sequencer to drive a separate MIDI interface that I have.

Hooking up to Windows was fairly straightforward, as well, though I haven't
tried all of the multimedia feature set, yet. I truly have
a system with "bells and whistles" now, or at least I get jingles and
such when I get in and out of the tools!  I've only played a wee bit
with one of the tools (Pocket Mixer?) and produced some interesting
effects from the canned sounds provided in the package.  It would have
been nice if the tool had an "undo" function, however, to back out a step
from experiments.

Hope this help!
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: plyall@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Pete Lyall)
Subject: Re: MIDI Teleprompter for song lyrics?
Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:13:53 GMT

In article <32810007@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> defaria@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria) writes:
>>/ hpcuhe:comp.music / plyall@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Pete Lyall) /  7:42 am  Nov  4, 1992 /
>
>>What about using embedded SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE packets in the sequence? 
>>As long as your sequencing software allows this (many packages
>>do),
>
>Yeah I though of this but, as you say, some packages don't.  I don't believe
>that ours does.  

Okay then, _new_ strategy:

Midi entities (i.e. NOTE ON, OFF, and some CONTROLLERS) have
arguments in the 0-127 ranges, right? What else runs 0-127? 
How about ASCII? (grin)

So - you could dedicate a MIDI channel to your teleprompter, and 
use say NOTE ON's on channel 16 to send your messages. Example:

To send the word HELLO, you could send the data stream:



9f 48 00 45 00 4c 00 4c 00 4f 00
   H     E     L     L     O


Because of running status, we only have to send the NOTE ON CH 16 [9F]
one time.

Also - if you were out of free MIDI channels, you could implement the
same approach on an already used channel, but select a controller that
the other synth doesn't respond to, and use the controller values
as ASCII.

If you made yourself a little cheat sheet, you could actually PLAY
the lyrics into the sequencer using STEP ENTRY MODE (almost every 
sequencer has this).


Pete Lyall


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From: mcmains@unt.edu (Sean McMains)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: anyone heard of software called Mosaic?
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:57:01 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas
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In article <1992Nov12.180233.9356@wam.umd.edu> Anthony J. Went,
twent@wam.umd.edu writes:
>Has anyone out there heard of a piece of scoring software called
>Mosaic?  I don't know ANYTHING about it (platform, features, price range,
>publisher, etc)... if anyone knows more than I do, please drop me some
>email.

I saw a recent review of it in MacUser that had favorable things to say.
Apparently MOTU has done a good job of integrating the flexibilty of
Finale with an easier to use system. They have, or soon will be,
releasing an update already that will address some difficulties in the
software as well as enable it to read more file format. It runs on the
Mac and was given 4 out of 5 mice in the review I read.
==========================================================================
Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu>        |          University of North Texas
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"An open mind, in questions that are  not ultimate, is useful. But an open
mind about  the ultimate  foundations either  of Theoretical  or Practical
Reason is idiocy." - C.S. Lewis
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: johnny@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Johnny Roberts)
Subject: HELP! Newbie needs quick info..
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:47:46 GMT

Heloo all!

	I am about to purchase a Mac and I am very interested in  
outfitting it for musical composition. I know very little about what is  
available, and how much it will cost, so I need more info before I just  
start buying things.

	So what I need to know is, what can I read, who can I call, or who  
can I write to for more information on Mac based sampling, composing,  
sound editing, special effects, etc.... I want stereo sound, and CD  
quality fidelity.

	Any info will be greatly appreciated

____________________________________________________________________  
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|*    johnny@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu       *| for me to study, to play, |
|*    U.T.S.A. Mechanical Engineering  *| to sleep.....             |
|*                                     *| I am seeing now that one  |
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu>
Subject: Re: PowerBooks & MIDI
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:49:37 GMT

In article <721500957.AA09354@csource.oz.au> Geoff Peters,
Geoff.Peters@p10.f861.n800.z3.fidonet.org writes:
>Of all the PowerBooks, only the 100 is considered a suitable MIDI
machine. All
>other models (including the newest, the 160 and the 185) suffer
interference
>from the PowerBooks on-board interrupt-driven power management
circuitry; you
>can transmit fairly cleanly, but receiving MIDI is another thing
entirely.

The newer machines, however, are supposed to have fewer problems than did
the older ones. Additionally, Opcode has released (or will soon -- I've
got a beta version) an update to their OMS software than solves the
problem for the Modem port. Apple claims to be working diligently on the
problem as well, and hopefully will have a fix in the not too distant
future. I, however, will believe it when I see it. ;-)
==========================================================================
Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu>        |          University of North Texas
==========================================================================
"An open mind, in questions that are  not ultimate, is useful. But an open
mind about  the ultimate  foundations either  of Theoretical  or Practical
Reason is idiocy." - C.S. Lewis
==========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: ramirez.Princeton.EDU!penrose (Christopher Penrose)
Subject: Re: Computer Composed Music
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: ennui
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: inet
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 03:27:40 GMT

Eliot Handelman writes:

>  Computer music, in my authoritative opinion, has no greater imperative
>  than to dispose of the idea of compositional creativity altogether. 

I haven't seen any evidence that "computer music" as an entity demonstrates
any cohesive consciousness, collectively or singularly.  It then follows that
Dr. Handelman's vaudeville hypothesis is either syntactically vague or a tepid
attempt at stirring a lively argument in this sorry vat of network ennui.


Christopher Penrose
ivy tower composeur
penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: jmmaye@monsanto.com (Jim Mayer)
Subject: Score printing from MS-Windows
Keywords: Windows, score, printing, sheet music
Organization: Monsanto
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:58:50 GMT

    My son, who is in high school, is interested in arranging music for
his school orchestra and would like a MS-Windows program that will allow
him to enter, edit, transpose, and print scores.  He wants to be able to
print single parts or full scores.  It would also be very helpful if he
could play the music on the computer to make sure it sounds the way he
expects.  We have a Gateway 2000 486/33 computer but no sound card yet.
   For software I have found a little information on MusicTime, Encore,
and Finale. I think that MusicTime is a lower feature version on Encore.
Does anyone know of other packages to consider, especially free or
shareware?  Does anyone have experience with MusicTime?  Will it do what
he needs?  What is missing from it that Encore has?
   Any suggestions for what to look for in an inexpensive sound card?
   I'm trying not to spend too much on this endevor because I don't know
if this is a lasting or fleeting interest.  Please post or email me as
you see fit and thanks for ANY help.

Jim Mayer
jmmaye@monsanto.com
From: Geoff.Peters@p10.f861.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Geoff Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: PowerBooks & MIDI
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 12:02:42 +1100

 > 1)  I'm considering buying a Power Book but I would like to know what's
 > the real story with Power Books and MIDI.  Is there total incompatability?

Not total, but almost.

Of all the PowerBooks, only the 100 is considered a suitable MIDI machine. All
other models (including the newest, the 160 and the 185) suffer interference
from the PowerBooks on-board interrupt-driven power management circuitry; you
can transmit fairly cleanly, but receiving MIDI is another thing entirely.


Geoff

 * Origin: No! Not that! Not the Minimoog! (3:800/861.10)
From: csat@giraffe.ru.ac.za (A. Terzoli)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: ear training
Summary: looking for Ibm-Pc software for ear training
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:56:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: giraffe.csat.41.720957372
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

I am looking for GOOD QUALITY software (PD, SW or commercial) for ear 
training, to be used by students in a music department. It should run on 
an Ibm PC with an MPU-401 compatible card, Sound Blaster and a MIDI keyboard 
attached.

Any idea? Thanks in advance.


Alfredo

PS. Does anybody know the e-mail address (if it exists) of

                       Questar Products Ltd.
                       1252 Westover Trace
                       Acworth, GA 30101  ?


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From: krw1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Kevin Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Finale uses windows in standard mode?
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:24:05 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Nov11.232416.29291@tamsun.tamu.edu>, greg@carnivore.tamu.edu
(Greg Economides) writes:
>I tried out a demo of Finale that Coda sent me on diskette a little while
>back.  I remember that in order to run it, windows needed to be started
>in standard mode (I believe).  Although I think that I have a tenuous
>grasp on why this might be, I find it absurd that it should require that
>windows be run that way.
>
>Does the non-demo version have this same limitation?  If so, is there
>any rumor or fact that the limitation will go away with a (hopefully,
>not-too-distant) upgrade?

Coda's original MPU drivers simply didn't work in enhanced mode.  That
limitation still exists, but they claim to be working on a version that is
MME compliant.  The standard mode restriction will go away at that point.
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From: esh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Sean Hayes)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:04:25 GMT
Subject: Req: Sound Module info
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Newsgroups: comp.music
Reply-To: esh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Sean Hayes)

Has anyone heard of/ had experience with a sound module known
as the (Dream) GMX-1 ? It sounds like just what I need, but I
havent seen any mentioned on the net. 
I would like an independant assesment from the
assorted wisdom out there, also pointers to alternatives welcome.

The specs I have on said box (I havent heard it play) are:
Sound - combined PCM and algorithmic synthesis  (?)
24 voice Polyphony
16 simultaneous Timbres
2 X 16 bit sample resolution. 44.1 kHz sampling rate
Midi in/thru/out and RS232C
GM/GS compatible 
MT 32 compatibility mode           ( -wots this?)
signal/noise  > 80dB                ( -is that good?)
Stereo Audio output

"Can be used for any musical application without a MIDI interface 
(PC Windows, Amiga, MAC)"

All for \pounds 240.

Background:

I am looking for a sound module/Drum machine (cheap - A Sound Canvas 
is out of my league) that can be driven by a laptop PC (Compaq LTE/20), 
primarily to provide backing for my Guitar practice, but I may want to
do more than just bass and drum patterns.
I am not a keyboard player, and have no hands on experience with
Synths. I know what MIDI is in the abstract, but again no experience.

Sean.              | esh@hplb.hpl.hp.com 
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: pwilson@gandalf.ca (Paul Wilson(Toronto-Sales))
Subject: Re: What is mulaw format?
Keywords: audio format files
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:41:23 GMT

In <1221@zogwarg.etl.army.mil> mike@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Mike McDonnell) writes:

>What is the mulaw format?  In fact, what are the other formats for
>audio data?  The FAQ for this group talks about file formats in terms
>of headers, etc.  but doesn't talk about formats for the audio data
>itself.  Maybe some info about this could be added to the FAQ if this
>query gets a good answer.

When converting analog sound into a digital form the waveform is sampled
at a constant frequency (8kHz for telephone and 44.1kHz for CXD standards).
This results in a quantity of varying voltages which must be measured.  The 
measurement system used (or ruler) needs to accommodate several needs: + and
- values, very loud sounds, and very quiet sounds.  Also, the desired resolution
should be taken into account; 16 vs 8 bit resolution. 

Because the waveform will move above and below the "zero" point we need 
+ and - measurements.  This can easily be accommodated within the numbering
system.  The nature of "loudness" is somewhat harder to define.  Perceived
volume is not directly related to signal level or voltage, but is related
logarythmically.  For example, I have heard that a 10 watt amplifier is only
twice as loud as a 1 watt amp (this may or may not be accurate, but the 
principle is true).  With this in mind, we find that the dynamics of music
(which can be loud, then immediately quiet) are difficult to deal with.  If
we choose a linear measurement system (with units increasing by one at 
fixed voltage increments) then we will have far more resolution than we need
at loud volumes, and not as much resolution as we want at low volumes.

To correct for this problem we decide to adopt a logarythmic scale.  Picture
graph paper with a horizontal line marked off at equal intervals, but with
vertical marks that are very close together near the central x-axis, but 
having increasing distance from their neighbours as you get further away.
These lines, of course, run parrallel to the x-axis and appear above and 
below it.  If we assign + and - ascending values to the lines above and 
below, then plot our waveform, we can pull off the sampled sound.  This is
how sound is sampled.

The mu-law (used in North America and Japan(?)) defines the voltages, or 
signal levels of the markings on the y-axis.  It defines the resolution
of the sampling method.  Other parts of the world use a slightly different
A-law.


than we need
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: dodel@CAM.ORG (Jean-Pierre Dodel)
Subject: WANTED: MIDIPascal libraries (MAC)
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:27:45 GMT

If anyone could send me a copy of the MIDIPascal library
for the Mac, I would really appreciate that.

thanks,


JP
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: nickcg@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (goetze nicolai)
Subject: looking for midi-shareware for MAC
Summary: midi-shareware for mac
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:00:25 GMT
Keywords: mac

Hi,
I 've recently changed my hardware from atari to mac, all I need now to get started are some midi-applications (I've a kawai-II). I would really apppreciate if anyone could give me a ftp adress or whatsoever to help me.
Please use my e-mail to reply (nickcg@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu).
thanx
Nick

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: winger@minnow.sp.unisys.com (Mark Winger)
Subject: Re: Roland JV-80 Patches
Keywords: Patch
Reply-To: winger@minnow.UUCP (Mark Winger)
Organization: Unisys Corporation
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:28:20 GMT

In article <100587@bu.edu> whang@acs.bu.edu (Whangbong Choi) writes:
>
>Hi all,
>   I recently purchased a Roland JV-80 for the church that I go to and I'm looking
>for some patches for it.  Does anybody know where I can find some?  I've already
>checked ucsd.edu and louie.udel.edu.
>

I am also interested in answers to this.


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From: agr00@ccc.amdahl.com (Anthony G Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: MIDI KEYBOARD AND AMP FOR SALE (CA)
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:35:16 GMT
Reply-To: agr00@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (TONY ROSE)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

ROLAND D-5 MULTI-TIMBRAL KEYBOARD
-Great MIDI Instrument!
-Asking.....$450


PEAVEY KB 60 KEYBOARD AMP
-50W High/Low Gain
-2 Channel Input
-Equalization
-And More!
-Used rarely and in excellent condition
-$350 New    Asking......  $200

Take Both For..................................$600
From: defaria@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:10:57 GMT
Subject: Re: MIDI Teleprompter for song lyrics?
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.music

>/ hpcuhe:comp.music / plyall@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Pete Lyall) /  7:42 am  Nov  4, 1992 /

>What about using embedded SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE packets in the sequence? 
>As long as your sequencing software allows this (many packages
>do),

Yeah I though of this but, as you say, some packages don't.  I don't believe
that ours does.  It's an Atari STacy laptop running a Steinberg Pro-24 III
sequencer.  I know it can send SysEx individually but we haven't figured out
how to put a SysEx change into a sequence.  

I was thinking about simply using a patch change event and mapping the patch
number to a filename.  This would do the initial song load and then I could
make RETURN mean show the next page and wire a footpedal to the return key.

Finally, I need to consider how my singer will use this lyric teleprompter on
non sequenced songs (we have about 15 of them).
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: twent@wam.umd.edu (Anthony J. Went)
Subject: anyone heard of software called Mosaic?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:02:33 GMT

Has anyone out there heard of a piece of scoring software called
Mosaic?  I don't know ANYTHING about it (platform, features, price range,
publisher, etc)... if anyone knows more than I do, please drop me some
email.

Thanks!

Tony Went
twent@wam.umd.edu

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Tony Went (twent@wam.umd.edu)                           University of Merryland
     "I'd like to hear my options so I can weigh them, what do you say?
      Five pounds, six pounds, seven pounds..."
					- Phish