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From: jnm@ornl.gov (Jamey Maze)
Subject: Recommendations of sequencer & notation programs for Macintosh?
Followup-To: comp.music
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:28:13 GMT

I married into a musical family. My mother-in-law has taught piano for 30
years and my brother-in-law is a professional keyboard player. My
brother-in-law, Spig, is very familiar with MIDI and synthesizers, but not
computers. He now seems motivated to buy a computer to just for the
sequencing capabilities. He has several nice synthesizers, but I don't know
what they are (can find out if needed). Since I'll be helping him out with
the computer stuff and I'm a real Mac enthusiast, I'll be advising him to
buy a Mac. What I really need from you is some advice on Macintosh-based
sequencer and notation software. I'm looking for one of those perfect
blends of ease-of-use, features, and cost. In other words, it needs to be
easy to use starting out, but have plenty of features under the cover as
Spig gets more familiar with the system. Cost is an issue since I don't
think he'd spend really big bucks initially; the cost of the Mac alone will
put him into a state of shock. An article in MacWorld implied that EZ
Vision, Pro 4, or Performer were good choices for sequencers. And I just
read a review in MacUser of Composer's Mosaic that gave it 4.5 stars. I
would appreciate recommendations from Mac musicians. Also, is there another
gotta-have application type (other than sequencers and notation/publishing)
that I ought to consider? Also, if you have recommendations concerning the
Mac configuration, for example, will a Classic II do or will he need a
IIsi, what MIDI interface do you recommend, is color a necessity? I know
very little about music (have read the FAQ list), so please go easy. Please
respond via e-mail. Much appreciated...

--
Jamey Maze
From: wrm@friskie.WPI.EDU (William Michalson)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: WANTED:pitch/tone detection algorithms
Date: 14 Sep 1992 12:23:49 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: friskie.wpi.edu

I am interested in collecting algorithms for performing pitch
detection and shifting.  I am well-aware of the many problems
associated with accurately identifying a correct pitch,
especially if there is more that a single note being played.
Currently, I am not too worried about computational efficiency.
My intent is to collect several algorithms that range from 
"cheap and dirty" to "laboratory quality."  I am interested in
all sources of information including: actual source code, detailed
textual descriptions, and citations in the literature.  I am not
interested in "maybe you could try such and such" descriptions.

Basically, if you are aware of a pitch detection algorithm that
works reasonably well for musical signals I'm interested.  If there
is sufficient interest in this topic I'll post a summary.

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: apeltone@smtplink.oulu.fi (Antti Peltonen)
Subject: Sound Blaster 16 ?
Organization: ATK-keskus
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:38:20 GMT

Hello,

Does anybody know specs of new Sound Blaster 16 PC-sound card.

I have read that it is can handle fully 16 bit (digitized) audio
and it's price is here in Finland is somewhere between SB Pro and
Pro Audio Spectrum 16.


- Does it have a built in MIDI-interface?
- What is the syntheziser chip? (Yamaha FM?, Roland?, Proteus?...)
- When it will be available? (Now?)
- What is a street price?

Another thing i'd like to know is Microsoft's Audio board (?)
I did read something like it somewhwre -or was it a dream?

And finally..

Do You know a decent shop where to buy PC-audio stuff
with reasonably price with a "FAX order" (actually a
VISA oreder but all communication with fax). 

I have used FAX in good success with many shops but i 
don't know any good place for PC-audio HW/software.

All i need is Fax number with Country/area code. If the
shop is willing to sell they usually send fast replay
to inquiry fax.

antti@phoenix.oulu.fi


All i need is
From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Where can I find MOD songs?
Date: 10 Sep 92 05:12:32 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Sep9.180157.25673@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.044214.24331@athena.cs.uga.edu> kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
>>>
>>>For Atari mods, they are two tracks or four tracks?
>>
>>They have up to four tracks.
>
>However, Atari just has 2 channels. How can it play 4 tracks mod?

It (or at least the STE and TT) has a 2-channel (stereo) output, 
but it doesn't have a set number of tracks that it can output in
stereo.
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: oss@itnsg1.cineca.it (Stefano Oss)
Subject: Midiverb III
Keywords: effects, patch, editor, atari
Organization: Laboratorio di Fisica Computazionale, INFM. Trento Italia
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:43:26 GMT

Hallo

does anybody know if and where it can be found a patch editor for the
Alesis MIDIVERB III (Atari compatible)?


                                          Thank you very much,

                                                  Stefano.



Stefano Oss                OSS@ITNSG1.CINECA.IT
Department of Phsyics      OSS@ITNCISCA.BITNET
38050 POVO (TN) Italy      phone ++39-461-881633  FAX 881696


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From: pact_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Peter A. Schott)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Personal Composer for IBM
Keywords: review wanted
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:50:27 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

I was wondering if anybody out there has tried Personal Composer for IBM.  I am 
looking for a review of the program for a friend who does not yet have e-mail 
access, so please send e-mail responses to me.  Please list what you feel are
the pros and cons of the program.  Thanks in advance,  Pete Schott.
	pact_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: currie@teal.csn.org (Andrew Currie)
Subject: Need info on upcoming ICMC
Followup-To: currie@csn.org
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:48:25 GMT


If anyone has contact information for the upcoming
Int'l Computer Music Conference in San Jose i would
greatly appreciate a copy of that info via e-mail!

thanks in advance

andy
currie@csn.org



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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: sbanksmg@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: MIDI tutorial system
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:10:47 GMT

To anyone interested,

I am doing a final year project on an interactive MIDI tutorial system
(Multimedia Application) that will embrace the following IMA standards:

	MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification Version 4.1
	MIDI Machine Control 1.0
	General MIDI - Level 1
	MIDI Show Control 1.0
	Standard MIDI Files 1.0

I'm looking for any GOOD ideas to help me during this research phase.  If
there's anyone doing something similar, or if you're merely interested in
the project idea, please comment.

Thanks

Mark
sbanksmg@cc.curtin.edu.au
From: gilles@cannes.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick-Gilles Maillot)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: price of the digital piano Technics PR270?
Date: 14 Sep 1992 01:16:48 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cannes

Hi,

I am completely ignorant of the price of digital pianos. I have tried
this week-end a couple of units. A Roland FP (nice, but somewhat limited
and I wasn't impressed by the "piano" sound), and a Technics PR270.
The salesman was asking $4,595 ("special, one-day sale price"). Was that
the best deal I could ever get on such a unit? Or what should I get that
has similar features (and sound) of the technics?

Thanks for your opinions, emailed to patrick.maillot@sun.com, I will
sumarize the answers I get.

-Patrick
From: tscott@metz.une.edu.au (Timothy Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Yamaha DiscClavier
Keywords: Yamaha, DiscClavier
Date: 13 Sep 92 09:16:19 GMT


I am interested in hearing from anyone who is using a Yamaha
discClavier in their teaching/research.

I am particularly interested in:

Price ex tax
the model of piano they use?
is it possible to connect directly to the onboard computer?
How robust are they?
etc

Tim Scott
Director of Music
The Armidale School
From: Ron_Mcnutt@mindlink.bc.ca (Ron Mcnutt)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: CLIP CLOP
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:42:52 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world



I apologize if I offend any finely tuned musical sensibilities with a very
basic musical computer question. I am in need of the "clip-clop" horse hoofbeat
sounds in a program I am developing for the PC. Does anyone know how (with a
basic PC music program) to recreate the proper strings to get this sound?
Thanks for any helps...

PS: my wife is a professional musician, but doesn't know beans about computers.

Ron McNutt

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: zappe@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Harald Zappe)
Subject: Re: WinMod Documentation in English
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: inet
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 10:12:55 GMT

I'm so sorry. I made a little mistake in one of my internet addresses in
forgetting 2 little 'e's. I hope that there were not so many 'returned
mails'.
Furthermore, having got a lot of mails, Norbert Unterberg has started
THINKING about a new version of WinMod. That does NOT mean that there is
currently one.
Norbert canNOT read this news group, because he is located in another
network: FIDO. So I have decided to act as a human 'gateway', but only
for this news group. If you want to sent mails directly, you can use

Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de

And now my correct addresses:


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From: mico@milano.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Michele Costabile)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: NEEDED: CakeWalk <--> MidiFile conv
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:15:47 GMT
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino CA, USA

Hi netters,

I do not think I want to upgrade old faithful Cakewalk to Cake pro
or Cake for Windows but I want to import/export songs to Finale or
other programs.
Any pointers to source/executables?


Michele

       "... and after shut down a shut up may sometimes be necessary"
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: C556212@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Jeoff Hines)
Subject: Re: Where can I find MODs at?
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 22:56:23 CDT

Atari , Amiga, and Soundblaster MODs are for the most part completly
compatable with each other.  I myself use Noisetracker on my Atari ST, but a
friend uses Soundtracker on his AMIGA and they sound virtually the same.
Some of my best MODs came from a local IBM board....
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: wang@hp4at.eunet.co.at (Wang)
Subject: How does SCSI Musical Data Interchange (SMDI) work?
Organization: EUnet EDV-Dienstleistungsgesellschaft m.b.H
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:03:46 GMT

How does SCSI Musical Data Interchange (SMDI) work?

Any pointers to descriptions and specifications are appreciated!

Thanks a lot!
/m

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From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799!!!!!
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 04:56:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.035739.9844@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>  
seifert@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael S. Seifert) writes:
> In article <1992Sep2.141412.5016@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>  
thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Keith Thigpen) writes:
> >kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
> >
> >>In article <1992Sep1.143739.15864@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>  
thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Keith Thigpen) writes:
> >>>
> >>>To be quite honest, this is lousy video. The lowest resolution PC  
that I
> >>>use is 800x600x256, and normally I use 1024x768x256. Your specs are 
> >>>underwhelming at best.
> >
> >>To be quite honest, little IBM compatible software uses anything above 
> >>640x480x256 except for GUI drivers and some graphics software.
> >
> >>Steve
> >
> >Your argument is meaningless. I _USE_ GUI drivers.
> >
> 
> 
> _WHO_ gives a flying flick....  We all realize such wonderfully small  
pixels
> must make your life truly worthwhile.  Perhaps another sextillion colors  
will
> be adequate justification for your existance...
> 
> mike seifert,  supra-genius

Well, I (and many others that are accustomed to higher resolution  
displays) "give a flying flick". 640x480 is just plain insufficient. Your  
beligerent attitude underscores a myopic view of the current state of  
graphics hardware and GUI software in the industry.

Are you still running on a 10MB hard drive instead of those silly 200MB  
drives? Or are your antiquated values limited to display technology?

Don't get me wrong - the feature list sounds great for $799 and I applaud  
any compnay putting a DSP chip in a new machine (let alone a 32MHz one).  
But let's not pretend that 640x480 is a desirable resolution in 1992.

Gordon


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From: schabtac@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Adam Schabtach)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: resistance -> CC box
Keywords: midi
Date: 5 Sep 92 18:25:28 GMT
Organization: Atmospheric Technology Division/NCAR Boulder, CO

In article <Bu43v5.H5t@world.std.com> mgd@world.std.com (Matthew G Davidson) writes:
>I want to be able to turn a variable resistance into a 0-127 MIDI continuous 
>controller value.  

There's a device made by Anatek, called the Pocket Pedal, which I think
will do this. It's made for turning volume pedals into MIDI controllers;
if I remember correctly, it will convert either resistances or voltages.

Unfortunately it will only convert one such signal, so you'd have to
buy several if you want to convert several sources. 


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From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Powerbooks and MIDI (was Re: Getting started w/MIDI on Mac)
Date: 14 Sep 1992 10:50:10 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

In article <NICK.92Sep14131131@vaila.ed.ac.uk> nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.092637.16058@afterlife.ncsc.mil> mssmith@afterlife.ncsc.mil (M. Scott Smith) writes:

>      Or, out of curiosity, for those of you with Macs, what kind of setup do
>   you have for making music?

>Uuuurrr... Mac SE/30, PowerBook 100, PowerBook 140, MIDI Time Piece,
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I find this suprising given that Apple has said that MIDI will never run
on a Powerbook 100. The PB 140's and 170's didn't have MIDI either until
a recent software driver update. Such an update, according to the Apple
engineer I spoke to, is not possible for the PB 100 due to hardware
limitations.

Bill Alves
From: scot@asstdc.oz.au (Scot Art)
Sender: fredmail@asstdc.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Akai S900
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 23:54:28 +1000

 AJ> From: andrewj@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Andrew J)


 AJ> Does anyone know of any PD or other programs for graphical editing of
 AJ> Akai S900 samples on an Atari ST, or indeed any other useful and cheap

Steinberg Avalon. Not cheap though. scot@asstdc.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Archimedes info wanted, SAMPLING, MIDI, etc
From: bell2@lincoln.ac.nz
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:14:21 +1200

Hi,

   I have a friend who has an acorn archimedes A3000,  and I was interested
in getting some music software to run on it,  In particular I would be
interested in any digtal sampling/playback software,  and also any information
on using MIDI on acorn hardware.
We are particularly interested in being able to play atari protracker .MOD files

Thanks in advance for any info..

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers,rec.music.misc
From: stefan@sinus.stgt.sub.org (Stefan Bechtold)
Subject: Finale question 
Organization: Sinus Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:52:59 GMT

I'm thinking of buying finale and have a question :

If I have a score which is larger than one normal page (i.e. more systems
on one page than it's possible to print on one normal size page) what 
possibilities do I have ?
Can finale split such oversize pages horizontally on several pages ?

Thank you,
Stefan


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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: toddwall@rock.concert.net (Todd R Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services)
Subject: Where's all the ADLIB stuff?
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 04:33:22 GMT

	Does anyone know where all the ADLIB stuff is???



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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: apeltone@smtplink.oulu.fi (Antti Peltonen)
Subject: Put finale demo to FTP
Organization: ATK-keskus
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:42:31 GMT

Hello,

If it seems to fit to copyright frames. Would somebody
upload Finale demo to FTP server.

FTP.CIC.INDIANA.EDU 

It has a nice collection of Windows software (incl. Cacewalk demo)
and it has many "mirrors" also in Europe.

-Antti-
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: rtaylor@hns.com (Randy Taylor)
Subject: Re: Roland MT-32
Originator: rtaylor@rtaylor
Organization: Hughes Network Systems Inc.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:59:25 GMT


In article <1992Sep2.223207.1099@unipalm.co.uk>, ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps) writes:
|> rtaylor@hns.com (Randy Taylor) writes:
|> 
|> >I'm looking for information about Pan (Controller 10)
|> >information transmitted to an MT-32.  The MT-32 docs
|> >seem to indicate that dynamic panning is possible,
|> >but I can't seem to get it to work,
|> 
|> Works fine for me. You get about 7 steps (or is it 15.. hmm) for the
|> normal MIDI range of 0-127, so you have to change the controller value
|> by a fair bit to make anything happen.
|> 
|> Each MIDI channel responds to the controller separately.
|> 
|> Beware that some voices can be stereo in themselves, and won't respond
|> to the pan instruction - they send some partials to the left and some
|> to the right channel. I don't know off hand which of the builtin voices
|> that applies to.
|> 
|> Ian
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Ian - 

Many thanks for the help.  Numerous folks have chimed in with assistance
and I've been completely buried lately with work and haven't had time to
post up thanks to all for their help.

Now for the summary.

First off, the reason I couldn't get pan working was "operator error" on
my part.  I run my MT-32 and other synths into a six-channel mixer.  I had
the mixer panpots for the MT-32 inputs panned dead center on each line.
Of course pan won't be detectable !  Jeez !  Chalk it up to the fact that
I was having a *really* bad week at the time.  

The MT-32 won't support dynamic panning.  You can pan only on subsequent
notes.  Pan events embedded in a long-duration note event won't wash
the note across the stereo field, but pan events between individual
note events will work OK.

The MT-32 supports 15 pan settings (0-14) and Pan (Controller 10) has a
range of 0-127.  So each MT-32 pan setting equals ~ 8.53 in Controller 10
information - ah, nice round numbers ! ;->

Thanks to all for the help !

Randy Taylor
rtaylor@hns.com
73750.3557@compuserve.com
jrtaylor@pan.com


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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: stefan@sinus.stgt.sub.org (Stefan Bechtold)
Subject: Demo of Finale ?
Organization: Sinus Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:25:47 GMT

Where can I order a demo of Finale (not ftp...) ?
Does anybody have a fax-number of a company offering this demo ?

Thank you,
Stefan
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From: scot@asstdc.oz.au (Scot Art)
Sender: fredmail@asstdc.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: MT-32 patches
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 23:30:56 +1000


 AM> From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)

 AM> It is kind of Raymond, but you can have ALL the patch names
 AM> by simply looking into the Windows 3.1 MIDI Mapper (or kind
 AM> of), which contains also General MIDI patch names.

The MT-32 isn't GM complaint. It was designed way too much before that. How
close it is, I don't know (the GM drum map is classic Roland), but there must
be some differences.

ciao

Newsgroups: comp.music,ny.wanted
From: plee@panix.com (John Lee)
Subject: Need a used keyboard
Summary: want keyboard
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:01:19 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
Keywords: want keyboard 

Hi,

	I am in the market for a touch sensitive keyboard with nice piano 
sound.  If you have one for sale please send mail to plee@panix.com

Thanks in advance,

JPHL
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: macpherson@earvax.waisman.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: Looking for tuning/tone recognition program
Organization: Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 10 SEP 92 15:52:09 CDT

>
>Are there any programs that can take sound input and analyze the tone?
>I'm wide open to any hardware/software for background information purposes
>but have a 386 DOS machine (and an old apple IIe clone).
> 
>What I'm actually looking for is something to help me learn to sing on
>key.  I've looked at one electronic tuner and it seemed to require too
>pure a tone for me to get a reading consistently.  I'm hoping that there
>is some program that has some parameters that lets you adjust the window
>of acceptable tone shapes (or something like this, I'm not familiar with
>the buzzwords in this field).  I suspect that this kind of tonal 
>analysis is on the more challenging end of the spectrum (fuzzy logic,
>AI, whatever), but it would be great if there was some commercial software
>(relatively affordable) or shareware (sources would be ideal) that exists.
> 

What about getting some sort of pitch-to-MIDI converter? I understand 
that the IVL Pitchrider works very well; I've seen it track voice, sax,
and clarinet without difficulty. I don't know for sure, but I think it
indicates how far you are from the "perfect" pitch you want. 

Perhaps others know more .......

ewan macpherson