HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dgc3@ellis.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
Subject: Re: digitizing 30 minutes voice
Reply-To: dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Parts of the University of Chicago
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:52:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.022410.28882@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.002624.3524@midway.uchicago.edu> dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>other similarly slow device, but you can get around it by setting your
>>buffer size to something larger than the file size.  In this case,
>>oplay will read the whole file into RAM before playing.
>
>So, can I play 10meg sampling sound on a 2 meg A500?

Yes, you could even play it on a 256K A1000 (does anyone still have
one of these?).

I realized as i was posting the last message how inconvenient the
procedure I quoted above is, so  I just threw in an option to detect
file size and set the buffer accordingly.  This newer version won't be
available for a while, though, so until I can send it out you'll still
have to check file size yourself when you want full-size buffers.
(Actually, you only need to set buffer size to half the size of the
sound for this; this way,  oplay loads half the sound and starts
playing it, but so quickly as to be virtually instantaneous, it starts
loading the second buffer.  You never notice that it's not loading
everything at once, and you save half the RAM you otherwise would.)

Also, I noticed a bug when I was writing in that option: the current
version of OmniPlay fails if it can't allocate two buffers.  This is
not a problem with the default size of 4000 bytes, but if you try to
set buffer size to  more than half your available memory, you won't be
able to run it.  This is now fixed, and will be available at the same
time as the new option I described above.

--dgc
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You usually don't want to know.
From: sobi0268@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Kevin V. Sobilo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Samples and ftp-sites
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:13:34 GMT
Organization: Math / CS, State Univ. of N. Y. College at Fredonia
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


I recently ftped some decent iff samples from nic.funet.fi....
They are in /pub/amiga/audio... The samples are in directories depending
on their length.... I got the Star Trek Theme and a few others...





					 	Kevin V. Sobilo
			 		   sobi0268@mary.cs.fredonia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: r3kls@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Kevin L Sheller)
Subject: U4ia Sucks!?
Organization: The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 16:47:45 GMT

This is just too much fun! The conflict is great!!
 
 Anybody ever heard of Dan Quayle, publicity, and Murphy Brown? 
 
 				Wow!
				Kevmo
From: kkhan@outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Norbert Janzen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Audio Channels
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:14:13 PDT
Organization: Wizard Online

I was wondering if anybody out there has any clue if splitting the four Amiga voice channels into seperated dedicated speakers.  I read something to this effeect but I can't remember where.  If there is a possibility of doing this, I would really appreciate feedback (e-mail is fine too).  Thanks in advance.

--- Via UCI v1.02 (C-Net Amiga)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: jholdern@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (J E Holderness)
Subject: Different MOD file formats
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:58:53 GMT

Could someone be so kind as to point me in the direction of any info on
the different MOD file formats. I'm not interested in soundtracker, noise-
tracker, protracker and screamtracker, but anything else. I've heard mention
of MED, Future Composer, and a few others. I don't even know if these are
different from the "normal" mods, so any info would be welcome.

Thanks.
- Jim
From: faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Anyone had trouble with samples from nic.funet.fi
Summary: got two corrupt .lhas
Keywords: bad archives, samples
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:30:04 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences


	I ftped two of the samples in the pub/amiga/audio/audio/samples-meduim
	directory from nic.funet.fi yesterday, and they were both corrupted.
	I checked twice to make sure that they were both transferred in 
	binary mode, and that my copy of lz was both recent and working
	properly.  No dice.  Has anyone else had the same problem?  Anyone
	at nic.funet.fi who can check the samples?  The one I was really
	interested in was good_morn_jim.snd.lha, if that's important.

	Not really a big deal, but I just wanted to see if I was losing my
	mind :-)


"Dear Chap, when was your last emotionally intimate interpersonal
 experience with a female?"
 "Me? ... My birth." -- The Date Man and Opus

-- 
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From: Jason_Peacock@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Jason Peacock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Copyist (was Re: Music programs ?)
Date: 5 Sep 92 06:07:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Flying Circus BBS, San Antonio, TX
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.21 (Sep 04 1992)


In <1992Sep3.164550.29300@cbnews.cb.att.com>, milo@cbnews.cb.att.com (guy.f.klose) writes:
> I just recently bought Dr. T's Copyist, and I thought I would post a couple
> of comments after having used it for a couple of weeks.  I don't feel
> qualified to do a full-scale review, so I don't want to attempt that.
> So, here's so random comments:
> 
> Copyist DTP offers a couple of advantages over Copyist Apprentice.  Such
> as score lengths of 99 pages (if you don't to do part extraction or
> transposing, score length seems to be no big deal...you can always
> separate your score into files of five pages each).  Copyist DTP gives
> you the Adobe Sonata font.  More on that later.  Copyist DTP also gives
> you part extraction (separating out a single part from a multi-stave score).
> 
  Have you actually tried the part extraction utility?  I have version
1.63 of Copyist DTP and whenever I attempt part extraction, the resulting
file is completely screwed up...usually the first stave is what I wanted,
but everything afterward is from the wrong stave or formatting is
completely messed up.
  Have you sucessfully extracted parts?  If you have, was there any
special trick like the master score having to be in a certain format(ie.
so many lines between staves).  Nothing I could find in the manual really
helped my problem.
                        
  A note on copy-protection...I bought my Copyist DTP about a year ago and
it had key-disk protection.  I guess this new non-copy-protected system is
somthing new.
          
----------------------
Jason Peacock
Jason_Peacock@fcircus.sat.tx.us
From: divineg@prism.cs.orst.edu (Glade Diviney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Jim Young Worshippers
Date: 6 Sep 92 03:14:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Sep06.031455.8162
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept

In <1992Sep5.155718.58659@cc.usu.edu> slbfn@cc.usu.edu writes:

  [...]
>   U4ia NO LONGER HAS AN AMIGA!
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  [...] 
>   I have worked quite closely with Jim Young (U4ia) to set up the
>   "U4ia RELEIF FUND"  This is a fund, hosted by myself and Jim, for
>   people using U.S. currency to donate a simple dollar.  Just mail it to:

>                        U4ia RELEIF FUND
>                        1303 N.  400 E.  #5A
>                        Logan, UT
>                        84321

  When are we going to hear the end of this?  Okay, fine, it seems that Mr. 
  Young has found a flair for digitizing other people's works and passing
  them along to us, but there are hundreds -- nay, thousands -- of people who
  regularly donate their time and efforts to making the Amiga a little more
  useful and a little more fun.  And I'm sure that not ONE of them HASN'T
  experienced any "tragedies" of their own (a hard drive implodes, someone
  spills OJ on your 1084s, or the rare and unforgiving "pencil in the internal
  drive" error that once plagued me.)

  The point is, Mr. Young obviously found an Amiga before without the combined
  help of the internet.  Maybe he could get a job, or sell music to a game
  production team, etc, and put the money together himself, instead of demanding
  retroactive payment for his uploads.  

  Sure, send him $5.  I _do_ hope he gets another machine, he's very good. I
  just hope that he can find a way to make money himself.  I mean, what if his
  monitor dies a month after we buy him an Amiga? 8^)

-=Glade Diviney
  divineg@prism.cs.orst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: dgc3@ellis.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
Subject: Re: CU Amiga / OctaMED V3 Problems ...
Reply-To: dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Parts of the University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:13:57 GMT

In article <1576@lysator.liu.se> zap@lysator.liu.se (H}kan Andersson) writes:
>I have posted this answer previously. The error message is bad. What it
>means, is: Can't unpack OctaMED.gfx1. I.e: Can't find powerpacker.library
>in libs:! Copy it, and it will run!

Is there a chance that MED-things require a specific version of
powerpacker.library?  I don't have OMed, but I occasionally use Med
3.21.  Last time I tried to use it, it started throwing up recoverable
errors (which are usually not recoverable in the end, anyway...after a
few minutes the machine just bombed out) by the bucket.  I had just
updated powerpacker.library in my libs:, and the library had not yet
been loaded into the system (i.e., when MED tried to load it, it was
fresh from the disk).  I hadn't had any such problems with MED before.

Just curious...I know there's no more support for (quadra-)MED, but if
it's a bug it shouldn't hang around in OMED.

--dgc
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dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu
You usually don't want to know.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.audio:3388 comp.sys.amiga.misc:13812
From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: For Sale: One sense of humor, never used.
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 14:44:24 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa
  <BuFH9r.J8o@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>

>Are you serious?  Why should any of us out here buy a computer
>for you?  Besides, if you're begging for money, then you should
>consider accepting personal checks.   :-)
>
>Yes, send some cash through email net.  Be sure to CC: me on
>it, too, so I'll get a copy of the cash.  :-)

==========================================================================

>This is why those of us who can't afford new systems buy things like:
>
>                * Insurance
>                * Maintenance contracts
>
>'Cuz these systems aren't exactly built "Ford tough" (unless that's the Ford
>Kleenex Corporation you're thinking of)... ...I'm on my 5th 1950, my second
>mouse, and now my floppy drive's going... ...joy.

==========================================================================


I present the above as PROOF that the net is the most humorless place on
earth!!

Geez, folks!! Wasn't the absurdity of the request a big enough clue that
he was JOKING! And if that wasn't good enough, was the absurdity of
demanding CASH ONLY via EMAIL a clue that he was joking???

On a serious note, if the NEA can pay for photographs of plastic crucifixes
submersed in human urine then I think there is a need/right for CERTAIN
Amiga artists to solicit contributions and arts funding.


Don DeCosta           |The nice thing about sanity is|  VM/Nomad2
DonD@cup.portal.com   |you can lose it more than once|  Amiga/Imagine
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga.application
From: newton@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (newton)
Subject: synth editors for Akai and Casio?
Keywords: librarian editors Xor Dr. T
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:14:39 GMT

Does anyone know if there exists librarian/editors or profiles for Dr.
T's Amiga Xor for the following synths? (PD or otherwise).

**********

Akai AX60 (Professional Programmable Polyphonic Synthesizer)

Casio CT-656 (ToneBank 110)

**********

Thanks.

************************************************************
*Dale E. Newton           newton@stolaf.edu                *  
*Blue Earth Ensemble					   *		
*718 Saint Olaf Ave.      507-645-6817                     *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: ags@scs.carleton.ca (Alexander G. M. Smith)
Subject: Re: digitizing 30 minutes voice
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 23:52:20 GMT

In article <wuth.21k4@castrov.cuc.ab.ca> wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth) writes:
>Hi, I have several cassette tapes of interviews with family relatives 
>[...]

You can use AGMSRecordSound (FreeWare by me, available at better FTP
sites and on CompuServe and BIX) to record sound to your hard disk (or
any other writeable file system).  The size of the recording is only
limited by the size of your hard disk, memory size is irrelevant.  You
can use AGMSPlaySound and other more modern sound players :-) to play
back the resulting huge file).  As for compression, I never got around
to doing compression :-(. 

The quality isn't as good as with regular sound sample software since it
leaves the Amiga OS running (oooh! a MultiTasking sound recorder) and
that causes a small amount of noise, particularly with slower
processors.  Since you have a 68020, you should be able to do better
quality (more samples per second) than on a simpler A500 setup, as well
as not suffing from the noise problem.  The quality on slower computers
is quite adequate for voice, so you shouldn't have any problems. 

Versions are available for standard parallel port audio digitizers (like
the AMAS that I use) and also for the oddball PerfectSound 3 hardware. 

- Alex
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: mx8@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Eric Lane Beyer)
Subject: mod.startrek on wuarchive
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 10 Sep 92 21:46:34 GMT

	I put an archived (.lha) of mod.startrek out on wuarchive.  It's in /systems/amiga/incoming/mods/other, and is called startrek.lha.  Enjoy.

	And somebody do STVI and STTNG!

	Eric

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Re: My Amiga 3000 died today
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:55:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.005402.28031@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
> dtiberio@libws3.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
> 
> 
> >	Something terrible happened today. My Amiga 3000, only

David's satire deleted...

> >	Feel free to email me cash or certified checks to my
> >email address. Thankyou.
> 
> 
> I don't understand what's your problem, buddy.  What U4ia did was to

Anger removed...

> If you think making such a joke (like the one above) was funny, well, I can
> tell you, I didn't laugh.  I might have laughed... but it wouldn't be

******* I laughed; good and hard! *********

> because I was laughing at your joke.  It would be because I was laughing
> at you.  You are just about one of the most insensitive people I have
> ever met on the net.  Congratulations, buddy.
> 
> (I realise this sounds like a flame, and I don't intend to perpentuate this
> flame.  If you feel like arguing or defending for yourself, feel free to
> e-mail me.)
> 
> Yours Sincerely,
> Kelvin
> 

Two very big signatures deleted...

-- 
	David

	Disclaimer: The content of this message in no way reflects the
	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: jholdern@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (J E Holderness)
Subject: Volume slide effect in MOD files
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:35:21 GMT

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but here goes.

I'm a PC user, and am trying to establish what the volume slide effect
in mod files is supposed to sound like so I thought Amiga users would
be the best people to ask.

On the PC, different MOD players handle the effect differntly, and I am
not sure which ones are correct. The easiest example I can think of is
in the mod file AVOID.MOD - has the title "tune 2" if that helps. The
first couple of lines of track 2 in the first pattern are:

Sample  Note  Effect
02      C1    Vls 0B
..      ..    ... ..
02      C2    ... ..
02      C1    Vls 0B
..      ..    ... ..
02      C1    Vls 0B
02      C2    ... .. 
..      ..    ... ..
02      C1    Vls 0B
02      C1    Vls 0B

Now the volume slide effect (Vls) used above gives those notes a sort of
stacatto effect on some mod players, but on others the notes last their
full duration, i.e. the volume slide doesn;t have time to take effect.
What I would like to know is how they would sound on an Amiga mod player
- preferably protracker since I'm not sure if the others do volume slides.

And in case there are some of you that have a PC as well as an AMiga, here
is a list of mod players I have tested on the PC:

Ones that produce the stacatto effect: Super Pro Play, WOW, Whacker Tracker,
Digi Studio.
Ones that don't: MODPLAY, PLAYMOD, Tetra Compistor, JMPLAYER, BPT.

However, of the ones that don't, I think MODPLAY is probably the only one
that actually supports the volume slide effect at all, so the others
probably don't count.

Hope someone can help. Thanks.

- Jim
 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: pmueller@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Pete Mueller)
Subject: best place to find MODs (is this a FAQ)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:46:10 GMT
Keywords: MOD amiga music

Could someone point me to an anonymous ftp site for MODs.

I've seen a few site with a MOD or two here and there, but does anyone
know of a site with a LOT of MODs?

AtDhVaAnNkCsE,
-pete

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: DMCS2.0
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:58:01 GMT

Good News:
EA is going to release DMCS v2.0 in this winter!
From: dpm@cray.com (Donald P. Maghrak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Music-X v1.x (was Re: Amiga KCS 3.5)
Summary: check that interface?
Keywords: ECE,MIDI Gold,1.2,1.3
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:48:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: hemlock.1992Sep4.144837.18106

In article <1992Sep3.171745.18508@leland.Stanford.EDU> jay@cmn19.Stanford.EDU (Jay Kadis) writes:
>> On Aug 31 1992, barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) said:
>>      I've used Music-X for years and it works fine for me.  It certainly
>> has some flaws -- in particular, the Bar Editor screen refreshes too  
>> slowly during playback -- but it has tons of functionality.
>> 
>>                                                         Dan
>>
	ditto.  It functions just fine for me.
>
>I have tried using Music-X on my A2000 (sys 1.3) with the ECE MIDI  
>interface and have had disappointing results.  It drops notes and hangs in  
>record.  I thought maybe I had hardware problems, but when I got Bars and  
>Pipes Pro, everything worked flawlessly, including sysex dumps which would  
>never work with Music-X.  I have upgraded Music-X to V. 1.1 (?), and that  
>won't run correctly at all: the clocking is erratic.  MicroIllusions have  
>been no help. I agree that Music-X has nice features and all, but if it  
>won't run reliably, it's of no use.   
>
I replaced the ECE interface I had for my 2000 with the MIDI GOLD insider
and all of the dropped/stuck notes disappeared as did the hang in record
problems.  In fact, it almost works as good as my a1000/mimetics combo did
with music-x.  I did run kickstart 1.2 on the 1000 and one of the posts to
this thread mentions 1.3/2.0x as a contributor to the problem.  I agree that
other sequencers work with the ECE, but music-x doesn't seem to like it on
my a2000.  It is interesting to note that the MIDI Gold uses the midi spec
opto-isolator (PC900?) and is well shielded and built.  I found that the
ECE (DR T's interface is identical) was poorly shielded and used an opto
that is an equivalent part (not identical) to the PC900.  Add that to the
fact that it uses an unshielded ribbon cable and a cheap plastic case.

I don't trust the replacement type parts as although they may work, they
may not behave %100 at the midi data rate.  since the MIDI Gold and my
Mimetics interface both worked great with Music-X and used the PC900 part,
this suggests that the ECE is part of the problem. Not an excuse for
MicroIllusions though.  I still get error numbers in my display, but I
do NOT have any missing/stuck/hung notes when I playback the just recorded
sequence.  I have seen the error counter roll-over on my friends a500/1.3/
Dr.Ts interface/Music-x1.1 system when syncing smpte.  The midi_in code for
Music-X is obviously very sensitive, as is the Amiga's lousy serial port
(with that enormous 1 byte buffer).  I'm waiting for 2.0.  (hope it's soon)
Music-X, in spite of the amigas and it's own problems, works acceptably well 
for me.  

>Jay Kadis
>jay@ccrma.stanford.edu

Don Maghrak  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: dgc3@ellis.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
Subject: Re: HELP: Sound Digitizers
Reply-To: dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Parts of the University of Chicago
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:06:42 GMT

Does A-Sound Elite allow separate editing of stereo tracks?  My
primary concern is being able to cut & paste from/to  only one track,
while leaving the other intact.  I've  never seen this feature in a
sample editor before, probably because it would require memory storage
and manipulation techniques that don't follow the common conception of
recorded sound.  (Too many programs work with data the same way they
store data on disk -- or vice versa.  This often prevents certain
kinds of operations that some people find essential.)

--dgc
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick {Tarador})
Subject: Re: For Sale: One sense of humor, never used.
Organization: Vallen Software
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:05:15 GMT

In article <65753@cup.portal.com> DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
>Geez, folks!! Wasn't the absurdity of the request a big enough clue that
>he was JOKING! And if that wasn't good enough, was the absurdity of
>demanding CASH ONLY via EMAIL a clue that he was joking???

No, I'm sure he wasn't joking.   People ARE desperate, you know.

-- 
Sam Hulick         \ "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is
shulick@indiana.edu \ poverty."  --George Bernard Shaw
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