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From: tapas@esri.com (Tapas Das)
Subject: Re: Winter NAMM '93
Organization: Environmental Systems Research Institute
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:52:00 GMT


In Article <C1FM9u.FJ5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Furio Ercolessi writes:
>
>In article <C1FHLr.Gp6@esri.com>, tapas@esri.com (Tapas Das) writes:
>|>Valhala, the mail-order only, sound company was looking for
>|>dealers.  Probably you would be able to check out their sound cards
>|>at a local dealer soon, before you decide to buy them.

>And hopefully you would get better support in case something
>goes wrong :-/  (I received defective diskettes from them in
>august 1991, and in 18 months l was not able to get in contact 
>with anything resembling a customer service).
>

Yes, I share your concerns too.  I purchased the International Gold
sound card B101 for a Korg M1 on a rom card from Valhala for $55.
I found that when I transferred the entire bank from the card
to the internal bank of the M1, most of the sounds will become silent.
There was a definite problem.  After a lot of calls to Valhala, I 
was able to contact a tech person.  I walked him through how to 
recreate the problem.  He verified it.  He mentioned they would
do something about it.

I have waited for almost *2 years*

Nothing has been done!  Despite the fact that I was a regular customer.
I had bought the M101, M102, M103, M104 and B102 cards from them earlier.

Goodby Valhala.  Buyers beware.

In article  <vb78210@zola.esd.sgi.com> Archer Sully writes:

>*The Alesis rep demoed a few sounds on their synth.  Sounded pretty good.
>*You should definitely check out their  24 channel mixer board. Looks solid.
>*Mackies' 16 channel best seller blew out the Alesis 1622 last year.
>*Alesis may turn the tables this time.          
>*

>Not likely.  The Mackie 8-buss boards look to be more flexible.  And if
>past performance is any indication, they'll sound better, too.

I would agree with you.  The Mackie 8-bus board looked more sleeker
and transportable.  Besides their inclusion of the midi automation
chip puts them ahead of the competition.

Cheers!

Tapas Das
tdas@esri.com
From: U15708@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: help with net->pc->mac and info on mac midi soft. ?
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:04:51 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

Hello,

I'm totally new to the mac world and I'm looking for mac midi software
available through the net.  I know of some sites that carry both mac
and pc midi software and I'll look through them but I would like to know
about other, predominantly mac midi software archives if you know of any.

The other thing is that my pc is connected to the net but the mac isn't
(actually, it's a friend's mac).  So, I am also looking for help with
transferring whatever mac files I find on an archive, to the pc and then
to the mac.  I know how to get a file from the archive to a diskette on
a pc, but I don't know how to do the translation from the pc format to the
mac format (if it is necessary - I guess it is, though).

Any help, suggestions, directions, etc will be greatly appreciated.

[:> Marios

                                            ______   ____   ______   ____
Marios  Kefalopoulos  u15708@uicvm.bitnet  |  __  | |  _ | |  __  | |  _ | |
pa vu ga di ke zo ni  u15708@uicvm.uic.edu | | _| | | |__| | | _| | | |__| |
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From: naherzin@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Neil A. Herzinger)
Subject: For Sale: Yamaha CX5M Music Computer
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:35:06 EST


For Sale:

*Yamaha CX5M Music Computer + Disk Drive and 3 Software Cartridges:
Everthing is in excellent condition, it was only used in my home.
This is an inexpensive way to get a computer based MIDI sequencer with the
equivalent of a DX-21 built in.

*Features:
-Built in 4 operator FM synthesizer (8 voice polyphonic and multi-timbral)
 (FM Sound Synthesizer Unit II (SFG-05 upgrade))
-Four octave keyboard
-MIDI in/out ports
-Stereo RCA audio out ports
-TV or Video monitor hookup (need additional cable for Video monitor)
 (TV input is coaxial)
-MSX standard operating system

*Disk Drive: Uses 3 1/4" DS/DD Disks

*Software:
-FM Music Composer II: 
 Allows you to sequence internal sounds as well as external sounds through
 MIDI.  Uses standard music notation.
-FM Voicing Program II:
 Allows you to edit internal sounds and create your own.
-MIDI Recorder:
 Allows you to record and playback through MIDI.

All manuals, All original boxes (except disk drive).
All for $300.
Price firm, shipping negotiable.

Contact through email or by phone:
Neil Herzinger
naherzin@rodan.acs.syr.edu
(315) 424-0104

neil.herzinger...graduate...art.media.studies...computer.graphics...syracuse.u.
....................................grae.com...................................
From: kmg@cilmi.esd.sgi.com (Kevin Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: re: Music Software for Unix/Indigo?
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:40:11 GMT
Reply-To: kmg@cilmi.esd.sgi.com (Kevin Goldsmith)
Organization: sgi

Steve & sez:
>I was wondering if anybody knows of any free or reasonably priced
>music tools for the Iris Indigo, which runs Unix.

>The Indigo has nice DSP/Audio Hardware built-in and some basic
>software but I would like to be able to produce MIDI files
>algorithmically and then convert (play) the MIDI files either to
>a Audio File Format or directly to the Indigo sound system.

>Does anybody have any pointers??

SGI has some MIDI and Audio libraries which you could use to do what you want.
I'm not sure on the pricing, but a local sales rep should be able to tell you.  As far as applications go, I don't know of many (or any actually) unix applications which will let you convert from MIDI into some sort of generic audio (of any kind).

Kevin
Disclaimer:
SGI could care less what I say, and if they knew, they'd probably be mad as hell
:)
From: hcorbin@uswnvg.com (Harold Corbin)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Question on SYS-EX ...
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:16:43 GMT
Organization: U S WEST NewVector Group, Inc.
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Where to begin......?

Whenever you setup your keyboard(s) with the sounds you want to hear, SysEx
is the way for your computer to SAVE the setup for you.  There is much more to
it than that, but I just want to you to get the basic idea first.

For example:

You have written a song, and all of the note on/off events are recorded on your
computer.  To hear the song with the correct sounds/voices, you need to setup
your keyboard(s) and/or sound modules to PLAY the sounds that the computer is
sending.   When you decide to play ANOTHER song, you have to change the settingson the keyboards to play the sounds from the NEW song.  Now what happens if you
want to play the FIRST song again?  You have to remember the settings you had
before you changed everything to play the second song.  WRONG!  SysEx will do 
this FOR you.  If you do a SysEx DUMP from your keyboard to the computer, 
Cakewalk will SAVE all of the current settings in your keyboard as "System
Exclusive Data".  When you are ready to play that song again, you can tell the
computer to LOAD the SysEx bank that you saved for that song and the computer
will transfer the SysEx data back the the keyboard and the settings on the 
keyboard will all change to the settings as they were when you did the DUMP.

Clear as mud?

This is also handy for keyboards with on-board sequencers.  You can dump your
sequence data and save it as Sysex.  Once the sequence information is saved on
the computer, you can change the seqeunces, or write new ones.  If you decide 
that you'd like to hear the sequence you made 6 months ago, you can just load
that particular SysEx bank back into the sequencer - and voila!  It's BACK!

Sysex can be used for a variety of different uses, but these are the basics as
I know 'em.

Any further questions, clarifications, or lessons (once you get that hang of the
basics), please feel free to let me know.
From: ada@zip.larc.nasa.gov (Anthony Arviola)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Playing .WAVs in Cakewalk Pro for Win?
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:03:49
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
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In-reply-to: marc@csi.on.ca's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:11:40 GMT
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   >Is it possible to play .WAV files within a MIDI sequence under Cakewalk
   >Pro for Windows?

   Yes, CPW does play .WAV files.  In the EVENTS list window, insert an
   event using the INSert key, and double click on the event type (which
   defaults to read NOTE).  Select the WAV file radio button, and click
   ok.  It will then ask you to select a WAV file, with a standard open
   dialogue.  The event value fields will show the name of the file, and
   the frequency it is recorded at.

   Again, due to the fact that I haven't really experimented with this
   much (yet), I don't know if the sample is loaded from disk at load
   time, or only when it is played in the sequence.  Loading at load time
   would be more intelligent from a speed perspective, as playback would
   be instantaneous instead of waiting for the drive to respond.
   However, with large .wav files, you would soon run out of memory.
   Does anyone know which method is used?

I believe that the sounds are loaded prior to play back.  I have experimented 
with this and my sound blaster and it played 4 waves back to back without
accessing the disk.  Its a cool feature and allows you to do some cheap 
sampling.  My 8bit sound blaster is very noisy.  A 16bit player might be 
better.

The sounds went smoothly from one to another (without delay).  If you begin
one sound before another is finished, the newest sound will be heard.

Hope this helps,
Tony
From: rlapham@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Richard Lapham)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: SCSI Drives?
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:10:47 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
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Shiv Naimpally (shiv@bnr.ca) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan24.090509.3570@ncsu.edu>, doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House) writes:
: |> How does SCSI work?
: |> 
: 
: SCSI stands for Small Computer Systems Interface and is pronounced
: 'scuzzy'. SCSI is a spec for storage devices. You can daisy chain
: up to 8 devices in a SCSI chain. Each end of the chain requires a
: SCSI terminator. It is a high speed interface which is why samplers
: are now using it instead of MIDI for sampler transfers.

Another advantage of SCSI is that it has bus commands that will let periphials
work with one another without using up processor time.  An example is copying
files from one disk to another, or to a tape drive etc.

  Richard.Lapham@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM           
         "All opinions are my own - unless I state otherwise" 
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From: doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House)
Subject: Re: 88-Key Weighted Keyboards - Which?
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:01:47 GMT

In article <bryguy-230193112347@bryguy.apple.com> bryguy@apple.com (bRYgUY K. Carter) writes:
>Greetings Earth,
>   So, I'm looking to purchase an 88-key weighted MIDI keyboard and/or
>controller.  Some of the controllers that I've looked at don't really
>appeal to me, save the Roland A-80 or the newer Peavy DPCM-8 (correct model
>#?).  I did try the Korg 01/W ProX workstation.  This was a very nice unit.
>
>I'm looking to invest around $2500.
>
>Any insights?

All together now:



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Enuf said.

Doogie :)

____________________________________________________________________________
    Jeff House                     "I am nobody telling everybody about
 house@dg-rtp.dg.com                somebody that can save anybody."
 doogie@catt.ncsu.edu 			 wjhouse@eos.ncsu.edu
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From: OIVINDI@gribb.hsr.no (Oivind Idso)
Subject: Prophet VS ?
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:14:32 GMT


Could someone please give me an estimate on the street price (the only price)
of a Prophet VS?

Oivind Idso (-: oivindi@gribb.hsr.no :-)
-------------------------------------------------------------
"Reality Has Always Been Too Small For The Human Imagination"
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            S T U D I O S U S   P E R P E T U U S

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From: mathmyka@tpki.toppoint.de (Mathias Myka)
Subject: Passport Systems: Continuing updates of Mac software
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:01:30 GMT


Hi !

I recently had to recommend some MIDI software to someone who
planned to install a new MIDI system based on Macintosh
computers. As I had (some years ago) quite positive experience
with Passport software, I recommended that.
However, the computer dealer who sold the system stated that
Passport was planning to discontinue their Mac products.

Is that true ? What's the current status of the Passport
products ?

Thanks

--
Mathias

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Fax: +49 8331 73966
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From: ar559@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jan Buitenhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Musicator reachable by EMail?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 19:30:37 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone know the EMail address of MUSICATOR A/S or
Jo Bradtkorb, the developer of musicator?

Thanks, Jan
Xref: sparky comp.music:6295 rec.music.makers.synth:1707 rec.music.marketplace:3145
From: hicksm@hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu (Mike Hicks)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.marketplace
Subject: QY10 wanted
Keywords: YAMAHA QY10
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:37:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.


	'Hello world'

	I signed up for a electronic composition class which is
	great in that I get access to equipment far beyond my ways
	and means.

	The down side is that studio time is dolled out in little
	teaspoonfulls and the sequencer I use at home is a completely
	platform: I just can't take a diskette into lab with me.

	And so I am interested in purchasing a used QY10 in order
	to shuffle sequences back and forth as well as a micro
	composition workstation for my desk drawer at work.


    > If you have bought one in the past and would now like to sell it <
    > I would appreciate it if you would give me a ring                <

							-Michael
From: beltran@ns.network.com (Tony R. Beltran)
Subject: Re: Hammered keyboards
Organization: Network Systems Corporation
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:51:07 GMT

In article <1jk6lgINNh8i@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
[stuff deleted] >tently. The only other MIDI keyboards I know of that 
>have true hammer
>action are the Yamaha diskclavier and the Yamaha MIDI grand. Both pretty
>expensive and don't let them tell you that the MIDI sensors have no
>effect on the action. Playing a diskclavier is like playing a piano
>immersed in molasses.
>
>Bill
The Roland FP-8 has real hammers.  They aren't used to generate the
notes.  They simply strike a felt strip under the keys to give a
more acoustic piano feel.  The keys seem to have a consistent
feel across all 88 keys.  But with this as any other keyboard, like
and dislike are strictly personal preference.  I like it better than
any keyboard I have tried, but I certainly didn't have access to all
makes and models, such as the Baldwin mentioned in this thread or
the Wersi model.  So it all comes down to the advice that try them
all where possible and select the one you like.

Tony


Newsgroups: comp.music
From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject: Re: Roland TB-303 and MIDI
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:10:16 GMT

In article <1jk6ufINNhp5@shelley.u.washington.edu>, piverson@stein.u.washington.edu (Paul Iverson) writes:
|> I'm wondering how to sync my Roland TB-303 Bass Line to my Alesis 
|> HR-16. Perhaps I could buy some used Roland equipment that uses 
|> both MIDI and Roland sync, but I'm not sure if it would 
|> simultaneously receive MIDI timing information and sync the TB-303. 
|> I'm also planning to buy a MIDI interface for my Mac, so there may 
|> be other options. Any suggestions?
|> 
|> Paul Iverson
|> piverson@u.washington.edu

There are MIDI retrofits for the TB303 available but they are a bit pricey.
Try Wine Country Porductions - they sell Kenton Electronic's retrofits
and Kenton does make a TB303 retrofit.

Another way is to find a MIDI to DIN24 sync convertor. Yamaha and Korg
made these and they can be found on the used market. Some of the early 
Roland sequencers also did MIDI to DIN sync conversion.

I'll repost my analog FAQ - there are some places in there you could contact
for the convertors and MIDI retrofits.
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From: furio@uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Subject: Re: Music Software for Unix/Indigo?
Reply-To: furio@uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Organization: MRL - UIUC
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:17:00 GMT

In article <v77p3mc@zola.esd.sgi.com>, cook@bebop.esd.sgi.com (Doug Cook) writes:
|>In article <C17vG9.6z0@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>, franks@cpsc.ucalgary.ca writes:
|>> 
|>> I was wondering if anybody knows of any free or reasonably priced
|>> music tools for the Iris Indigo, which runs Unix.
|>
|>There are developers working on audio and MIDI applications for the
|>Indigo. Those products which have already been announced include Bars &
|>Pipes Professional, a nice MIDI sequencer from Blue Ribbon Soundworks;
|>SuperJAM! from the same company;

SuperJAM received a good review in Electronic Musician, December 1992.
It's a competitor of Band-In-A-Box (on different platforms, though).  
According to them, it is more powerful than BIAB, particularly for "creative" 
work (defining styles, etc).
 
furio
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* materials research lab, uni illinois at urbana-champaign
+ intl school for advanced studies, trieste, italy   

"Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency"
                                      [ Brian Eno, "Oblique Strategies" ]
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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Subject: Re: SCSI Drives
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:11:34 GMT


In article <19930126.070125.53@almaden.ibm.com>, heavy-metal@vnet.ibm.com writes:
|> Actually, with the new SCSI-2 interface (68 pin P Cable) allowing fast and
|> wide transfers, you can have up to 16 devices on a single
|> SCSI cable. Just in case anybody cares (and most likely they don't . . . )

I'm a little confused.

From my understanding, SCSI supports 2 levels of devices.  There are 8
SCSI ID values, each corresponding to a SCSI controller.  Each SCSI
controller can have 8 "logical units".  So, theoretically, you could
have up to 64 devices on a single cable.  Practically, though, even
with SCSI-2, you really don't want to eat up your bandwidth, which is
why systems with 2 SCSI buses are becoming more popular.

Where does your number 16 come from?

-- 
...David Elliott
...dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce
...(408)944-4073
..."Do you sing like Olive Oyl on purpose?"
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From: Bob Polis <bobp@cc.mey.nl>
Subject: Re: synth chip identification
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Organization: Moret Ernst & Young

In article <C14r1H.ArA@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Richard Martin,
rmartin@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
>what I assume to be a serial number SN94281N.
>It also has the number 8001 on it, and it also has Malaysia writen on it.

SN94281N indeed is the type number of this chip. I don't know by heart what it
is, but the number tells me it's an analog Texas Instruments chip, probably
some line driver. I will try to look it up for you (I don't have my data books
handy right now).
The number 8001 means that the chip was fabricated in the first week of 1980,
apparently in the TI plant in Malaysia.

Bob 'IC-Master' Polis.
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From: pcastine@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de (Peter Castine)
Subject: Re: Make Sampling Legal...
Keywords: copyright
Organization: TU-Berlin TUBKOM, Germany
Distribution: inet
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:59:24 GMT

I've tried to keep my mouth shut through most of this very interesting thread
but  after reading the following I couldn't resist responding anymore...

In article <1993Jan27.202156.19104@Princeton.EDU> ramirez.Princeton.EDU!penrose (Christopher Penrose) writes:
>
>A radical solution:  remove copyright protection from the sale of information
>distribution, and somehow compensate artists (by extending structures such as
>BMI, ASCAP, introduction of art grants) with information production salaries.
>Research scientists are often paid in this manner.  I am an artist myself,

Excuse me, but where do you live? In Narnia? With the NEA having been
hacked to death in the last 12 years, are you trying to tell us that
the United States are going to support musicians with 'information
production' salaries? Oh, you want BMI and ASCAP to compensate artists?
Where are they going to get the money to do so without copyright protection?
The entire legal basis for the existence of those two organizations is
in American copyright legislation (which, like it or not, is seated
in the Constitution, so if you want to remove copyright protection,
you're gonna need a constitutional amendment -- ask an ERA supporter
what that's like :-| )

Christopher, if you had put in a couple of smileys I might be able
to lighten up. In fact, I might have asked for permission to submit
your whole posting to rec.humor.funny, which is where it probably
belonged. But with the following:

>and I do not believe that artists have an intrinsic right to monetary
>compensation for their work,

you're not going to be able convince many people to take you seriously.


I would like to close with an anecdote:

	My wive's music teacher helped to sneak the two of us
	onto backstage to listen to a sold out concert in the
	Berlin Philharmonie with the words (to be spoken with
	an Irish accent): 'Ah, but music should be free.'

	The accent belonged to Jim Galway, who could afford to
	say things like that -- at the time he was first flute in 
	the Berlin Philharmonic, pulling a salary to match. 

When you're wondering where you're going to get the money to pay for coal
to heat your room in the middle of a German winter, you tend not to feel 
so generous.

-- 
Peter Castine.                       "Errors and anachronisms ought to be
Technische Universitaet Berlin        few. If they do occur, I take full
pcastine@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de      responsibility like Richard Nixon."
					                    -- Gore Vidal
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