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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 12:19:39 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.music
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Need computer music textbook

In article <1992Dec22.072649.5087@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> you write:
>jab@cs.rit.edu (John A Biles) writes:
>
>>We are currently trying to find a textbook that surveys the computer
>>music field.  I am unaware of anything recent that is broad enough
>
>I think the book "Musical Application of Microprocessors" (I'm not quite
>sure the exactly name at the time of writing) from HAL is the best
>choice.

Having both these books, I think "Elements of Computer Music" by F. R. Moore
is a better choice. But note that both of these books worth is compromised by
typos and programme bugs in crucial places.

Anyone who's debugged the Phase Vocoder programme in EoCM (or otherwise made
it work) *PLEASE* contact me.

Cheers,

Ross-c
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping)
Subject: Anyone interested in front end to T2MF.EXE? (long)
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 11:08:09 GMT

Is anyone interested in a front end to T2MF.EXE?
T2MF is a wonderful program to convert ascii files to .MID
(MIDI files) but requires an in depth knowledge of MIDI.
For example to play a scale of C major you would write:

MFile <stuff deleted>
MTrk
0 On ch=1 n=60 v=80
238 Off ch=1 n=60 v=80
240 On ch=1 n=62 v=80
478 Off ch=1 n=62 v=80
	.
	.
	.
TrkEnd

You get the idea: you have to be really au fait with all 
this note on/off stuff. What I have in rudimentary form is
a front end to T2MF.EXE: it creates files that T2MF.EXE can
read and has a more "natural"  syntax. To create the preceding
C major file you would (modulo a little header) just write:

.track
c d e f g a b c6
.endtrack

Sharps/flats/naturals are for example c#, c&, c%, you can specify the
octave after the note, you can set a default note duration, and you
can qualify the note value, so a long example is this: a&6mh

a <- the note & <- flat 6 <- octave mh <- 3 crotchets (minim and a half)

My front end (MIDICC - MIDI compiler, get it? MIDICC is the compiler
while T2MF is the assembler.) also has an "escape mode" where really esoteric
T2MF.EXE constructs like binary data/hex dumps etc can be passed through
verbatim e.g. to write a program change message in T2MF syntax
you can do something like

.verbatim <----- starts "verbatim" mode
0 Par ch=1 con=7 v=127   <-------this is T2MF syntax for controller change
.endverbatim

All the lines between .verbatim and .endverbatim get passed through unchanged.

If anyone is interested in MIDICC send me an e-mail. I don't want to post
it yet as its really in alpha and how many people really want to write
MIDI at the computer keyboard anyway. 
You will get source and  OS/2 2.0/DOS 386 executables. To hack on the
source you will of course need a compiler AND lex. In addition you
will need a working T2MF.EXE but I can include that if you don't have
one.

To test out MIDICC, I "asciied" the
entire first movement of Mozarts K448 second piano part,  
(after becoming proficient it takes about five minutes a page), used
MIDICC/T2MF and now the computer happily accompanies me as we play this
ineffable music together...
From: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Want info on MIDI recorder software for PC & Yamaha psr500
Date: 3 Jan 1993 01:19:29 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Distribution: inet
Reply-To: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, jimk@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JIM KISH) says:

>I have a Yamaha PSR500F hooked thru a Sound Blaster MIDI in a
>386 PC. I know this is entry level stuff, but it gives me a start
>before investing in more expensive equipment. I have been using
>Voyetra SP Gold sequencer, which includes a midi analyzer that can
>be used for Midi Syst Exclusive dumps & transmits.. Problem is the
>buffer size is limited to 32K and this is not big enough to handle
>the psr500 bulk page dumps, which I would like to do.
>
>Does anyone know of good Dos/Windows software which can handle larger
>dumps/restores/file saves, etc.? How about WinJammer and if so, how
>can I get copy?.. also interested in C or other sofware routines to
>access SB midi port? .... Thanks for any response!


I have WinJammer and Yamaha PSR500M. WinJammer is capable of recording
and transmitting SysEx messages. I was able to record the sysex (about 64K)
but was not able to load it back into the keyboard. If anybody else on the
net was able to load the dumps back into the PSR500, please post what software
you used and if you had any problems doing that.

WinJammer can be FTPed from FTP.CICA.INDIANA.EDU pub/pc/win3/sounds.
It is pretty decent shareware sequencer. Right now I am working on a 
MIDI version of "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer. It is going to be written
specificly for Yamaha PSR500 patch set. So any owner of PSR500, If anybody
wants, leave me your e-mail address and I'll send it to you when I am done. 

I think it would be great for the owners of PSR500 to exhange e-mail addresses
so we can share our experiences and creations on this keyboard. If we ever
figure out how to load the MIDI bulk dumps back into the keyboard, we could
share the custom accompaniments, and the built-in sequencer songs.

P.S. I think that the difference between PSR500 and PSR500M is that the later
comes with a power supply. What is PSR500F?

--Raphael
br326@cleveland.freenet.edu
pungin@cs.uri.edu
From: mal4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marty Lamb)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: WANTED:  CMF EDITOR
Date: 3 Jan 93 03:09:46 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Hi -

     I'm looking for a CMF editor or a .MID to .CMF conversion utility.  If
     anyone knows where I can find one, I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks!

     Marty
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: edith@triton.unm.edu (peter menning)
Subject: Looking for SB program to create touch tones. 
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 04:11:22 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM











I am looking for pc software that can create a specific Hz and Khz tone with mt
sound blaster.. i have a experiment i want to do to set up my soundcard as a spe
eker phone kinda.. but i cant get it to dial my phone.. if i could create the to
nes it is all i need..
~
please tell me where i could find a program like that.. for a Soundblaster.  tha
nk you..
~
Adric
Edith@triton,unm.edu

 
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From: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Yamaha PSR500 MIDI Bulk reception ???
Date: 22 Dec 1992 04:37:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Distribution: inet
Reply-To: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



Has anybody figured out how to receive back the saved MIDI Bulk dumps
to restore the panel settings of PSR500? I was able to save the
MIDI Bulk dump using WinJammer (shareware sequencer for Windows), but was
not able to load it back into the keyboard.

Thanks,
	Raphael
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: Re: MIDI Interface & Powerbook 100
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:28:58 +0000

>Hate to tell ya this, but buzz has it (according to a blurb in Electronic
>Musician) that _all_ Powerbook models, as well as the new Performa 600/IIvx/vi
>Macs, have a serial port problem when dealing with MIDI data.

That is probably *our* blurb; we worked with Rudy Trubitt to put the
article together...

>You just can't
>use them for that, as it appears to be a hardware-related problem. Supposedly
>Apple is working on a fix for it, though, so keep your ears peeled. As for
>right now, however, you just can't use that 'puter for MIDI.

...and it seems to have got truncated and edited so as to be misleading.
The above is wrong; but I'm tired of posting my accounts of PowerBook/MIDI
tests and results. Check this group a week or two back; that's how often I
seem to post this stuff.

Grr, grr, grr... Oh, Joe and Greg have posted it anyway... Good.

                      Nick Rothwell  |  "Say, how many contemporary dancers
   CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance  |     are there in this bar?"
        cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk  |  "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens
        cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk  |     and divide by two..."
From: "richard wyble" <richard.wyble@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: cmusic books
Date: 25 Dec 92 17:33:23 EST
Reply-To: "richard wyble" <richard.wyble@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

On 12-24-92 (9:37pm) Timothy D Fullerton wrote re: CMUSIC BOOKS
---
 >  I am looking for any sort of instruction manual or third party
 > books for cmusic.


What the hell is cmusic?

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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
Subject: Re: Need computer music textbook
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:26:49 GMT

jab@cs.rit.edu (John A Biles) writes:

>A colleague and I will be offering a computer music seminar in
>the spring quarter to students in our computer science department.
>This will be the first such seminar here, and will be a fairly
>high-level survey.  We recently purchased some toys to support
>this and subsequent courses, specifically a Yamaha PSR-400 interfaced
>to a Mac running Encore.  We also got Keynote for our Sun environment
>(where the students live), which we will use to generate MIDI files
>that can be brought over to the Mac for "seeing and hearing" with
>Encore.  The Mac, then, will be only a "music machine" and not the
>primary development environment for student "experiments."

>We are currently trying to find a textbook that surveys the computer
>music field.  I am unaware of anything recent that is broad enough
>in coverage.  Roads's Music Machine of a few years ago provides a
>good selection of topics, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth.
>The more recent books I have seen are too focused for a first exposure
>to computer music issues.  Any suggestions?

I think the book "Musical Application of Microprocessors" (I'm not quite
sure the exactly name at the time of writing) from HAL is the best
choice.

>                        - Al Biles  (jab@cs.rit.edu)
From: pan@pannet.UUCP (The PAN Network)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: mirage disks 
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 03:18:33 EDT
Organization: The PAN Network
Reply-To: midigod@pan.com



I have the answer to your problem as well. See my previous response.
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: Re: MIDI Interface & Powerbook 100
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:29:06 +0000

>This is incorrect. Maybe this should go in the FAQ.

Yes, please, before I KILL SOMEBODY!

Oh: PB100 and MTP-II have hardware incompatibilities; I'm hunting down a fix.

                      Nick Rothwell  |  "Say, how many contemporary dancers
   CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance  |     are there in this bar?"
        cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk  |  "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens
        cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk  |     and divide by two..."

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: birkelan@cs1.sps.mot.com (Joel Birkeland)
Subject: IBM ACPA card (audio capture playback adapter)
Reply-To: birkelan@cs1.sps.mot.com (Joel Birkeland)
Organization: Motorola SPS
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:33:23 GMT


Can anyone out there give me any information on an IBM product
called the Audio Capture and Playback Adapter?  My wife got
one a couple of years ago; it looks like it could be very powerful.

The instruction book is divided into two sections: the first section
is non-technical, the second section is a highly technical description
of the various registers, etc....  It contains a stereo 16 bit 44 MHz
A/D, a TI DSP chip, and a few other things.

If anyone knows of any software for this thing, I would appreciate it.
Reply by e-mail.

Joel Birkeland
birkelan@cs1.sps.mot.com
From: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Question: SB .VOC files for samples in MODs
Date: 4 Jan 1993 02:44:37 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Distribution: inet
Reply-To: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, dessel@remus.rutgers.edu (Metaphysical Wonder) says:

>Does ANYONE know how to use Soundblaster Pro .VOC files as samples in MOD files that I create using like ModEdit?
>
>If not, does anyone know an efficient way to convert the .VOC files to the Amiga (?) format required of a MOD sample?
>
>
>Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
>
>		-- Jason Dessel
>
>Please mail responses (as opposed to posting here) to:
>
>			dessel@remus.rutgers.edu  or dessel@gandalf.rutgers.edu
>
>Thanks again!
>

Please post to the net as well as to the author above. Looks like question
of general interest.
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From: georges.milette@synapse.org (Georges Milette) 
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: STUFF FOR SALE
Date: 2 Jan 93 20:19:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: georges.milette@synapse.org (Georges Milette) 

Hi to all.
        I'm posting this for one of my friends who is BROKE!!
These items could be interesting to musicians.. He has for sale:

        *1 old but still playing Fender Rhodes Electric Piano*

        *1 Roland JX8P electronic Synthesizer.. with midi Capability*


                                /*************
                                *            *
        1 KEVLAR        * Stick Bass *
                                *            *
                                *************/
                Like the one used by Tony Levin
                This one's in perfect condition, comes with case
                and two sets of new strings (these babies have 10
strings).

                ANY REASONABLE OFFERS ACCEPTED. Post to me or call

        819-663-0506---> me, in the mornings. ask for Georges
        819-243-6638---> Him, sometimes in the morning or
afternoon-->Bertrand
From: ptl@cs.tut.fi (Launiainen Petri)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Problems with KORG 01/W sysex
Summary: it might be in the TTSSEQ.INI params
Date: 30 Dec 92 06:03:35 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: kaarne.cs.tut.fi

In article <3032@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> hcorbin@uswnvg.com (Harold Corbin) writes:
>My problem is this.... Whenever I send a sysex dump to my keyboard, I get an
>error message on the KORG "ERROR: System Exclusive".  I'm dumping sequence
>data containing all programs and velocity,pan, etc...data.  KORG thought it 
>might be my operating system, and I upgraded the ROM ship from version #21 to
>#38, but the problem still exists.

The only area where I had real problems with Cakewalk for Windows, was the
reception of long sysex dumps.  It simply did not work with the default
parameters in TTSSEQ.INI.  Sometimes it appeared to receive a full Wavestation
dump (over 200000 bytes) but sending it back made my WS barf.  I even got
blown out to DOS prompt once during sysex receive (with version 1.01 - never
seen it later again). After fiddling with the parameters for a while, I found
a set that works flawlessly.  You might want to try these:

[Options]
SysxReceiveBuffers=50
SysxReceiveBuffersSize=10000
SysxSendPacketSize=256

The last one is merely for the U-220, which is slow as a snail...

Using big buffers is against the manual (p. 151), but it works :-)

If you're low on memory, you could reduce the SysxReceiveBuffers to 25.

It *could* be in the ROMs of the 01/W, too: My Alesis D4 complains every
time it gets it's own sysex dump back.  There must be an error in the
original checksums, because it still does receive the actual data OK.

/petri
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Xref: sparky comp.music:5800 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:5771 alt.sb.programmer:536
From: jaysen@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Jason A. Brotherton)
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,alt.sb.programmer
Subject: BETA-USERS wanted for new Music Notation Program!  (IBM, DOS)
Keywords: music, notation, ibm, dos
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:49:03 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana


Hello!

I am currently working on a DOS-based music notation program for my
honors project.  I've noticed that there is a huge need for such a
program in the shareware market, so I shall release it as shareware with
a very modest registration fee.  My program will rival, if not be better
than similar programs costing > $300...at least that is the whole point
of the project!  :)

What I need from you guys are some beta-testers...I appreciate all help, 
but to be useful you need to be honest (frank) and have a good idea of
what you want in a notation program, or at least, what you don't want. :)
All that I ask is a few hours of your time for suggestions and to try
out the finished program before distribution.  In return, you will receive
the fully registered version and any updates absolutely free.

For those of you who are looking for a notation program here are a few of
the specs...
                            NOTATE!
Notate! will allow you to enter music using the mouse and print it to
your favorite printer in a crisp, publishable format.  Notate! will also
play back any composition you have written using your favorite MIDI device
or a SoundBlaster (Pro) audio card.
Notate! will require the following:
   *100% compatible IBM (286 or better), Mouse, VGA, DOS 3.x & up
   *512K free memory  (for now)
   *Hard disk
Optional Items are:
   *Any kind of printer
   *SoundBlaster
   *MIDI instrument

If you would like to help me out and be a beta-tester, please send me
a note!

As a final note...due to the recent MODEDIT fiasco, any pointers to a 
document specifying *exactly* what is shareware/crippleware/etc would
be muchly appreciated!  

Thanks,
Jason Brotherton
jaysen@bsu-cs.bsu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
Subject: Re: Midisoft STUDIO Software Rating?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:18:30 GMT

I, Dallman Ross (dman@netcom.com), wrote:

: I bought myself Midisoft's STUDIO MIDI music-authoring software for
: the Holiday, and I have to admit that I did so without doing any
: research other than to compare competing products in the software store
: by reading the marketing blurbs on the packages.  (This was at Fry's.)
: I want to open this stuff and play, but I'm worried that I may have
: made not the best choice for my money.  I hesitate to rip off the
: cellophane wrapping until someone can reassure me that Midisoft's
: software is decent enough.  

: STUDIO cost me $160 + tax.  Comments?  Would really appreciate any.

Would steal love to hear from anybody on this.  I know nothing about
MIDI, and would hate to make a bad mistake at the start.

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From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: RADIO/TV COMMERCIAL - JINGLES
Date: Fri,  1 Jan 93 14:18:56 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

Rita Kaikow (K12RZK@VAXC.HOFSTRA.EDU) writes:

>At a party I attended last night, HAPPY NEW YEAR, one of the guests put us to
>task to try and remember the source of the commercial and the store it
>advertised for which the following words were part of its jingle:

>        MELROSE FIVE FIVE THREE HUNDRED

>Several guesses were - Sax Fifth Ave.
>                       Castro Convertible

>Does anyone know for sure?

Well, I don't remember the jingle at all; perhaps it was a local
business? Since I didn't know for sure what area it might have
originated in, I searched all area codes for current businesses:

201	Lou's Oil Service,		Cromwell, CT
215	Don Charleston & Co.,		Philadelphia, PA
404	Parks Truck Repairing & Svc,.	Ellijay, GA
510	Park Plaza Hotel,		Oakland, CA
618	All American Coaches, 		Staunton, IL
703	Bell Auto Parts,		Front Royal, VA
901	Weather Forecast,		Ripley, TN
906	Old McDonald Furniture Barn,	Sault Sainte Marie, MI

Hope that helps!

Dave
dbell@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.ai,comp.dsp,rec.music.compose,rec.music.makers.synth,fj.meetings,fj.comp.music
From: meyersk@vnet.ibm.com (Kurt Meyers)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 09:43:42 EST
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Music minus one
Reply-To: meyersk@vnet.ibm.com(Kurt Meyers)
Organization: IBM Corporation
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: Usenet 3.1

I would appreciate information on hardware and software that
would permit me to play music (on my MIDI equipped digital
piano) to the accompaniment of others on previously recorded
MIDI disks. That is, I would like to "play along" with previously
recorded music. I already have an IBM AT computer.

Thanks in advance for your response.......

Kurt Meyers
meyersk@vnet.ibm.com
From: mminnick@broca.next.com (Mike Minnick)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: FOR SALE:  Samplers and more
Date: 1 Jan 93 23:34:29 GMT

FOR SALE:

Sequential Prophet-3000 16-bit stereo sampler.  Factory sound disks,
RAM upgrade, extra mother board!  With manual.  $1000.

Sequential Studio 440 Sampler / Sequencer / Drum Machine.  Three sound
disks, manual.  $600.

Sequential TOM drum machine with manual.  $100.

Sequential Six-Trak Model 610 - 4 octave, 6 voice synthesizer keyboard
with sequencer.  With manual.  $100.

Computer stuff:

IBM PC, 540KB, 20 MB hard disk, floppy, EGA card, mono monitor,
Logitec Bus Mouse, DOS, Turbo C and other software.
With manuals.  $250.

EPSON LQ 510 24-pin dot matrix printer, with manual.  $150.

Roland MPU-401 MIDI interface for PC with Voyetra Sequencer Plus
mkIII software, documentation.  $100.

Avatex 1200hc, 1200 baud modem with manual.  $30.

Speech Plus CALL TEXT 5000 Speech Synthesis board for IBM PC.
With manual and software.  $50.


Mike Minnick
email: mike_minnick@next.com
day: (415) 780-4687
evening: (408) 956-1532