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From: johnj@echo.philips.nl (John Janssen)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Midi song - "Borderline - Madonna"
Date: 2 Oct 92 10:42:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, E.C.H.O. development department

>In article <1468@bbx.basis.com> scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:

>>Yes.  Try the federal copyright code itself.  It is well written and
>>not too obscure.  It takes into account future technologies.  It
>>considers any machine readable embodiment of a musical work
>>to be copyrightable.  When I read it, I thought it was rather clear
>>that a sequencer data file would be covered.

The above is also true in many other countries, but
please do not forget that US law is only valid in US,
while the net goes far beyond that!!!!

You can restrict US talk by setting the "Distribution:" label in your post!

John
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Home: +31 77 513177  Atari Mega STE, PC 386 SX, MIDI, C
From: tnguyen@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Thinh Nguyen)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:48:50 GMT
Subject: Korg ZD3 Midi Guitar Pickup Wanted
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth

    I looking for a used Korg ZD3 Midi guitar driver(pick-up) for my Z3 Korg
 Midi guitar module, or if you see it at any used music equiqment store,
 please let me know. Does anyone know ZD3 is compatible with Roland GK-1?
    Thanks,
From: Randomizer@cup.portal.com (Aron Fingers Nelson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Anyone else have this D-5 problem ?
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 92 19:11:45 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

>The buzz is directly proportional to the decay time so, for example,
you can hear it more drawn-out on "Warm String Fade" than on "Touch
Piano".

How loud is the "buzz"?  It's probably the tail end of the digital
distortion inherent on the cheaper D series.

Aron_Nelson@cup.portal.com
From: gingeric9178@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Stuff I would really enjoy
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:51:27 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Hello,
   Well, I have been VERY lucky in my net purchases so far, and every month
about this time I feel like buying some more stuff.  I always say, this is the
paycheck I start saving on, but why should I?  To hell with savings.  Anyway, I
am interested in the following items:

         1)Ensoniq EPS16+ 6x memory expander
         2)Electronic drums
         3)A stand that works well with a SY99
         4)An rack that will fit a newly purhcased (thanks again bill!) 
           TX16W.
   
   By the way, I have found the TX16W's OS to not be half as bad as some of the
horror stories reported here.  I guess it is not the most user friendly item I
have ever used, but I have fallen for it hook, line and sinker.  But I also
use Windows 3.1 so that has to tell you something about my patience..
What the hell, it samples great!

Robert Williams, not GINGERIC9178 at all.  
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: roger@wrs.com (Roger Rohrbach)
Subject: Re: Mellotron samples?
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 03:10:08 GMT

Rob.Rosen@West.Sun.COM (Rob Rosen) writes:


> Anyone know of any good Mellotron samples/patches?

    David Kean of the Mellotron Archives told me that E-mu is creating a
Mellotron library for the new E-mu instrument (EIIIXP?), which can be expanded
to 32 Mb of RAM and thus can hold those 8-second recordings.

-- 
Roger Rohrbach                                  sun!wrs!roger    roger@wrs.com
- Eddie sez: ----------------------------------------------- (c) 1986, 1992 -.
|   {o >o                                                                     |
|    \<>) "My favorite sounds are 8 seconds long!"                            |
From: johnd@lloyd.Camex.COM (John Duesenberry)
Subject: Re: Alchemy for Mac / EMAX II question
Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 10:46:53 EDT

I have had good sucess transmitting samples to/from an Emax II using
both Alchemy and Sound Designer on a Mac IIcx. The RS-422 port on the
Emax II DOES work, contrary to what you heard. Advice: make sure you
have the latest version of the Emax II system software. Earlier
versions did have some problems in this area. Also, DISCONNECT THE
EMAX MIDI PORTS from your setup whenever you are doing RS-422 transfers.
E-Mu advised me to do this. Don't ask why, but the Emax II will f**k
up almost invariably when both RS-422 and MIDI connections are made
to the computer at the same time. So I always turn off my Opcode
STudio 2 box when doing the xfer. This problem is also true of the
old Emax and Emax SE. BTW, if all fails you can always use MIDI
sample dump although it's slower. Also BTW, I have found that
Sound Designer IISK handles RS-422 xfers much more reliably!
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: skipa@milton.u.washington.edu (Skip Albertson)
Subject: HELP: Can anyone disable DBX on Tascam 244 Portast. for SMPTE?
Summary: HELP: Can anyone disable DBX on Tascam portastu. for SMPTE?
Keywords: HELP, disable DBX, Tascam 244 portastudio, SMPTE
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 05:34:10 GMT

Does anyone out there in Netland know a way to override the DBX
noise reduction scheme on a Tascam 244 Portastudio?  It would
seem logical to me that circuits could be disabled by an electronic
technician... just let the signal go straight through instead of
through a filter... but how?

Perhaps it's possible to disable it on one channel (say channel 4)
and then that channel could permanently be allocated to lock
a sequencer with SMPTE.  Anyone out there in the know?


Thanks in advance,

alberts@apl-em.apl.washington.edu
From: brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:58:37 GMT
Subject: Re: OMS, MIDI Manager etc.
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth

The MOTU driver I was referring to is the MTP-II Console application
(*not* a DA) that is bundled with the MTP-II.

Various weirdness seen with Performer 3.6.1 was using the most recent
versions of MM, MIDI PatchBay, and the OMS serial driver.  Didn't
use 3.6.1 with the MTP-II; I upgraded to 3.6.4, then to 4.0 before
getting the MTP-II.  Before then, I was using a couple of Opcode
MIDI Translators.

For what it's worth, I did a test for Nick.  It is possible to use
MTP-II Console as a MM application; you can dump changes in the
Console program into a sequencer (in this case, Performer) using
PatchBay as the data-comm pathway.  This implies that you could
use OMS to drive an MTP-II and connect the Console app to the system
without going totally crazy.

Pete Brooks

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Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 07:56:30 CDT
From:         crispen <crispen@EFFTOO.BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Re: TECHNO Samples...
Comments: To: SYNTH-L@ada3.ca.boeing.com

May I suggest also something I read a year or so ago in Keyboard or
someplace -- cEVIN Key et al of Skinny Puppy say that they sample
a sound at something like C6 and play it back at C-1 (or maybe
vice-versa).  At any rate, I'm sure you'd be surprised at what happens
when you frequency shift your samples.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:09:00 CET
From:         "CRI/CD/OS; Rene de Bie" <CRISRB@RULMVS.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
Subject:      Re: Midi song - "Borderline - Madonna"
Comments: To: "Redistribution of rec.music.synth"
              <SYNTH-L%AUVM.bitnet@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>

About mailed files: Madonna.mid, every.mid, hotelc.mid

Hello, Is it possible to upload these uuencoded files in decoded
format to some ftp server where I can get them from?
I work on IBM MVS and it is an horror to translate these files
to ASCII.
Hope someone can!
Regards

Rene de Bie - CRI - University Leiden - Holland
Mail   :P.O.Box 9512 - 2300 RA Leiden - The Netherlands
Phone  :+31 71 277028/276921
From: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: MIDI Driver Chips
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:17:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: gvgspd.2045
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley  CA

In article <1992Sep28.035219.11963@ncsu.edu>
                                 ddm@hamby.tx.ncsu.edu (David Mann) writes:

>Does anyone know of a MIDI driver chip or interface device where I could
>control a bunch of LED's, switches, relays (64 would be nice) using a midi
>controller.

I'm sure many of you could see this coming...

I know of no single chip device that supports this, but it would be another
application suitable for for my "Urge to Merge" project.  As I intend to
include an expansion connector that will carry the demultiplexed address
and data busses, along with the RD, WR, and PSEN control bits, one could
design a relay board that maps its devices to the external data memory space
and control those devices based on receipt of specific messages.

-- 
============================================================================
Michael Kesti  Grass Valley Group, Inc. | "And like, one and one don't make
    mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM              |  two, one and one make one."
    !tektronix!gvgpsa!gvgspd!mrk        |         - The Who, Bargain
From: ismail@pci.ists.ca (Karim Ismail)
Subject: Ensoniq VFX Synth bugs
Organization: PCI Inc.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:11:39 GMT

Any feedback on this would be appreciated:

About 6 months ago were using a VFX.  It was bought used, and the
seller mentioned that the original VFX had bugs in it, and that the
one he bought had a new software upgrade (new EPROMs or something)
and that the problems with the original VFX wouldn't be evident in
ours.  Not quite.  The VFX would hang 3/10 times when we had it 
connected to a sequencer.  The moment we hit record, bang - the VFX
is screwed up - it just freezes up, and the display gives some error
message and we have to reboot.  It would also hang in the middle
of our rec sessions, like on track 10 out of 12, and we'd have to
restart again.

Anyways, we got rid of that VFX, and because the presets on the
VFX are damn good, we want to get the VFX-SD.  BUT, can someone
tell us what the ^%$# is wrong with VFX!  Has the problem been
fixed in the SD ?  What were the original problems with VFX ?

We've heard a lot of stuff - some people say there are no more
bugs in the SD, others say there are problems.  What's real story ?

Please post something or send email to:
________________________________________________________________________
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From: metlay@netcom.com (metlay)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: D'Cuckoo: Concert Review and Commentary
Summary: An Email address for the band....
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:09:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Sep30.220936.19733
Organization: Atomic City

In article <nv+p=qr.metlay@netcom.com> metlay@netcom.com (metlay) writes:

[D'Cuckoo concert review deleted]

>(I don't think they have email addresses yet, alas; if
>I learn of one, I'll post it for the curious.)

I have done so; for those of you too lazy to address an envelope and put
a stamp on it (like me |-> ), you can talk to Linda Jacobson about the
band at lindaj@well.sf.ca.us. Tina "Bean" Blaine can also be reached at
dcuckoo@well.sf.ca.us, but she doesn't check her email as frequently as
Linda does. If you're interested in more data about the band and its
musical output, either Linda or Bean should be able to help you. Be
warned, though-- Linda uses enough bangs in her prose to give people
headaches. |-> Finally, I reiterate:

>If you do contact them
>and like their stuff, let them know it. We need to encourage those among
>us who are doing what they love and succeeding enough to make a living.
>Tell them you saw it on the Internet, and Metlay said "Check it out."

-- 
metlay            | "It's the probability of some Perf/X box being dead or
                  |  wedged that I have to worry about. This week, it's the
                  |  Systemizer that's pining for the fjords."
metlay@netcom.com |                                       (e. hallgrimsson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: mpdavis@unccsun.uncc.edu (Michael Parker Davis)
Subject: Microphone Help Recieved So Far
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:13:15 GMT

The suggestions I have gotten so far for low cost microphones for a home studio
for vocal and guitar and amp miking are ...........

**In the condener mic field at a scant $108 the winner is
      Audio Technica ATM41C  (rumoured to be a "best buy")

**In the dynamic microphone field at a precocious $89 is the legendary
      Shure SM57  (rumoured to be a "ball"less SM58)
      or an EV357 (for it's low cost and humbucking coil (my personal favorite))

**And for experimentation and possibly the "best amp mic" the winner is the
  pedestrian priced (at $52)
      Radio Shack PZM  (rumoured to be identical to a Crown PZM)

If you disagree, or would buy differently let me know, as I have XLR inputs that
are free, and nothing to fill them with (eat your gearhog hearts out dudes)

Thank You All for nominating your trusted friends.
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Subject: Re: 8bit vs 16bit?
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 03:22:39 GMT


In article <BvMKGo.MnG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cwilson@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Chris Wilson) writes:
|> I've heard that 8-bit digital audio has about the sound quality of a standard
|> cassette tape.

I'm not sure I agree with that.  I might agree with "commercially-duplicated
cassette tape", but my ears tell me that cassettes made from good quality
albums in real-time, or cassettes I make in my home studio are better
than 8-bit quality.

-- 
...David Elliott
...dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce
...(408)944-4073
..."I take my arms and I wrap them around my art." - F
From: ats@phoenix.udev.cdc.com (alex t stagg x4718)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Keyboard feel (was: Re: CZ101 for sale)
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:48:50 GMT
Reply-To: ats@phoenix.udev.cdc.com (alex t stagg x4718)
Organization: Control Data Corp., Arden Hills, MN

In article <1992Oct5.185947.5239@netcom.com>, metlay@netcom.com (metlay)
writes:
|>In article <1680262@hpsad.sad.hp.com> smithj@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Jim
Smith) writes:
|>>Perhaps you'll prefer my new sig.  |-o :-> It was great fun visiting
with you 
|>>and the rest of the West Coast r.m.sers who could make it.  I highly
recommend
|>>getting together with r.m.sers in YOUR area, friends!  It's definitely
|>>interesting  to continue a long-going conversation with 
|>>someone you've just met.
|>
|>This is true. Silicon Valley was the second biggest r.m.s stomping
|>ground I could have hurled myself into. (The biggest, Boston and
|>environs via NYC, will be this Christmas if all goes well. I plan to
|>pour eggnog in Eirikur's Chroma, meet and approve of Dan's new bride,
|>meet Laird for the first time, re-introduce Nancy to my wife, and
|>throw a huge r.m.s bash in someone's borrowed home without their
|>knowing it for New Year's. And throw up on Carl's carpet halfway
|>home. Coup.)

... And an early Indian Summer turn the midwest into a corfield
wasteland.... (sigh) 

Anyway who said bigger is better??  :-P

Alex.

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From: kaustell@viikki.Helsinki.FI (KIM OLAVI KAUSTELL (MATEK))
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: How can I make my MT-32 shut up  ?
Summary: What is the syntax for a sysex to turn MIDI-chan's off ?
Keywords: MT-32
Date: 6 Oct 92 08:04:47 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Fac.Agric.For.

Hello all !

I recently got my hands on a used Roland MT-32 sound module. Along with it 
came the manuals, but I can't figure out the syntax (=the hex codes) to turn 
off MIDI-channels of it's parts. The MIDI reference clearly states, that 
this is by some means possible, and the shareware editor/librarian MT32EDIT 
has this option. I'd prefer not to start a separate program to accomplish 
this task. My Music Quest card has the software to send sysexes in a batch 
file, so all I need is the sequence of hex codes to turn off midi from any 
part.

All hints and other useful stuff concerning the MT-32 are most welcome and 
highly appreciated !

Greetings from Finland !

                        y-=p Kim Kaustell p=-y
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From: amanda@INTERCON.COM (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: RE: Techno Samples
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:12:34 GMT

Bob.Weigel@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bob Weigel) writes:
> What makes a "real sound" is the 
> expressive control, and that is something that no instrument on earth 
> makes easy work of gathering from another instrument, unless they have 
> compatable architectures. (Like transferring sounds from a K1 to a K1 
> II) 

I agree.  One of the things that I have spent some time thinking about, as an 
acoustic musician playing with synths and electronic music, is what I think 
of as "articulation."  Basic MIDI does give you some of this, with mod 
wheels, pitch bending, aftertouch, attack & release velocity, etc., and some 
synths let you parameterize patches with these values, but I still find using 
them to be pretty cumbersome compared to the kind of control that an acoustic 
instrument gives you.

This is why, for example, a good fretboard MIDI controller will generally 
sound more like a guitar than the world's best guitar sample played on a 
keyboard.  Ditto for wind controllers, and so on.  To me, alternative (i.e. 
non-keyboard) synth controllers are at least as interesting as the sound 
generating modules inside.  When I was first introduced to the DX7, for 
example, it was by someone playing it with a Chapman Stick.  Way cool.

Now all I have to figure out is how to make a MIDI Hammered Dulcimer :)...


Amanda Walker
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: richards@mcnc.org (Bill Richards)
Subject: Taurus pedal info wanted...
Organization: MCNC Center for Microelectronics, RTP, NC
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:42:49 GMT


The net finally came through! I posted here a couple of times in the past few
monthe looking for some Taurus pedals. Finally got some, (thanks George) albeit
in less than optimal shape electrically. Does anyone have:
	a) A user's manual they could copy for me
	b) More importantly, service info or pointers to where I might get
	   service info.
I have info on the Taurus II (I still have yet to copy it for the few folks on
the net who requested it... my sincere apologies... I've been out of town) but
my source for that info is out of business (EJE in Buffalo, NY). Help, anyone?
This thing is very close to working, but it needs a full re-calibration and I
need something like what I have for a Taurus II. 

Thanks, rmm, rms. These groups have been a real help to me recently...  it's
great to see *something* able to work in good faith these days...
								-bill-
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Microelectronics Center of North Carolina		Fax:   (919) 248-1455
PO Box 12889
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Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: ssipila@vipunen.hut.fi (Seppo K Sipil{)
Subject: Korg M1 hard case or flight case wanted
Keywords: M1, case
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:41:38 GMT

Hi, everyone...

I just bought a second-hand Korg M1 and by now I've noticed that it's
just too big and heavy to haul around without a hard case. The problem
is, the Korg hard cases / flight cases are not imported to Finland.
There are, however, music shops that will build one for me at a
ridiculously high price.

So, I'd like to know how much new Korg cases cost (hard case HC-M1 or
flight case FC-M1). Anyone want to sell a second-hand case? 
The customs office will probably want their share if I buy a case from
abroad, but even so I think it may be cheaper that way.

Waiting for email (ssipila@vipunen.hut.fi)...

Seppo
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: thomas@gmd.de (Tom Gordon, I3.KI 2665)
Subject: Re: Request for SY55 Info
Reply-To: thomas@gmd.de
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:58:36 GMT

In article 4265@bnr.co.uk, rjt2@bnr.co.uk (Richard J. Thomas) writes:
  
> Any answers on the following appreciated:
> 
> 1. Is the SY55 the same as a TG55, plus a keyboard and sequencer?
> 

Yes. 
> 2. Are the SY55 AWM2 samples much better than the SY35 AWM ones?
> 

The SY55 has fewer samples and more memory (2 MB), so they are presumably better.
But I must say that, after several months of use, the imitations of acoustic
instruments are far from authentic.   First impressions are quite misleading.
In particular, the piano, basses, organs and drums are all rather mediocre,
I'm afraid.   The machine looks much better if you consider the samples merely
as a basis for syntehesis.

> 3. Do the on-board filters, envelopes and voice mixing produce much useful
>    variation in sound?
>

In my hummble opinion, YES!    The SY55 is certainly not the most advanced 
synthesizer on the market, but don't be intimiated by those who would like to brand
it as merely a "sample player".  I still consider it a very good buy, considering
its price.


> 4. What is the spec of the on-board sequencer?  (Saying just "Basic" doesn't
>    really help me :-) Can I download sequences to an external sequencer via
>    MIDI?
> 

Yes.   It is the usual Yamaha sequencer with 8 tracks.
But there isn't much onboard memory for sequences.  (You can also store sequences
on RAM cards.)   I also thought a sequencer would be useful, but have almost
never used it, since my Mac with Vision is sitting right next the SY55.  

The sequencer would have been much more useful for my needs if it had been possible
to let the sequence repeat indefinitely.  I had thought I would be able to quickly
record an accompaniment, and then jam to it.  Nope.

> 5. I hear the Modulation & Pitch Bend wheels are in an odd position - true? Is
>    this awkward?
> 

I like this position, above the keyboard.  I fail to see why this is more awkward,
even if unusual, than WAYYYYYYYYYY down to the left on a 88 key masterkeyboard,
for example.  Move your arm in an arc.  The position of these controllers on the
SY55 is no further away than on any other keyboard.

> Thanks in advance!
 
Yours welcome.

Tom G.


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5205 Sankt Augustin 1 / Germany
email: thomas.gordon@gmd.de;  phone: (+49 2241) 14-2665