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From: rosensta@ace.rutgers.edu (Michael "Trott" Rosenstark)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Advice on DAT recorders
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:30:16 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

There is one point that really needs to be made if either of these
DAT's are going to be used as mastering decks of anything analog:

the 3700 has no 'margin' readout.  The DA30, on the other hand, has an
excellent readout, with very precisely calibrated input level
adjustment knobs.  They are engraved with one dB markings, and they
aren't kidding--when you move the knob  four notches up, your signal
reads as peaking four dB higher.  This is invaluable for mastering, in
my opinion.  The remote on the DA30 is wired, by the way, which is
kind of a drawback.

Another point to be made--there are many more connectors on the back
of the DA30 for analog input and output, as well as a switch on the
front for toggling between them.  This allows you to repatch the DA30
from balanced to unbalanced feed without replugging any cables.  The
3700 only has balanced connectors.

I initially thought that the transport mechanism of the 3700 was
sturdier, but when I looked into this further, I realized that they
are nearly identical.

The rackmount kit for the 3700 must be assembled, whereas the DA30
just has rackears built right onto the thing.

The DA30 features individual input level controls for both channels.
I don't think the 3700 has this.  Finally, I don't think the 3700 has
a master output level control, whereas the DA30 does.

I had them both in my studio at different times, and I opted for the
DA30.  I think I paid around $975.  Remember, though, that you must
base your decision on what you will be using the machine for; I use
the DAT primarily for recording analog signals.  Therefore, the margin
readout is invaluable to me.

cheers,

mike
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: oneil@worf.arc.nasa.gov.arc.nasa.gov (Don O'Neil)
Subject: RE: Advice on Technics keyboards sought
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:38:07 PST
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I currently own a Technics KN-800 and KN-1000 and am VERY pleased with the 
quality of the PCM sounds and the versatility of the machines. I am not      
familiar with the KN 500 (it's a new model I think) but if it's similar
to the KN-600 then you will have a good time with it. I do not know of any
other sub $1500 range keyboards with the same tonal quality of the
technics line, the Korg M1 is a nice "rock" keyboard though, the Technics
lines are more of the classical instruments (piano, horns, organs, strings,
etc..) but does not have nearly the features of the Technics lines.
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Andrew C. Crowell)
Subject: Re: Uncompressing archived MIDI
Organization: University of Illinois School of Music
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:33:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.020323.9149@leland.Stanford.EDU> jbaxter@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joel Kent Baxter) writes:
>Help!
>
>I'm on a Mac IIfx, trying to uncompress some midi files that I downloaded from
>an ftp server.  The files are of types ".arc" and ".zip".  I picked up some
>programs from sumex-aim with promising names like "ArcMac", "UnZip",
>"UnZip MAC", and "ZipPop", but when I try to use them the following things
>occur:
>
>	1)  ArcMac crashes the Mac (I have to reboot from the debugger).
>	2)  The various un-Zipping programs tell me that the ".zip" files
>	    are in the wrong format, mumbling various error messages about
>	    "central directories" not existing, being damaged, or being in
>	    the wrong format.  I have tried this on several different ".zip"
>	    files, so it's not the target file that's the problem.
>
What you may be running into here is some architectural incompatibilities
which the IIfx has viz. the rest of the Macintosh world. While ArcMac, I've
noticed, _does_ seem to be a buggy program, the others are for the most part
stable. Try running these on a different Mac, if you can. There _is_ a way
to get the IIfx to behave like a plain-jane Mac, but it's such a specialized
machine that I don't recall what it is.

D.A.C. Crowell
Computer Music Project/School of Music
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
(dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu)
From: rsasaoka@musubi.pubnet.com (Yahagi Shogo)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: WANTED! Info. about Ballade
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 22:40:19 HST
Organization: Studio Musubi, Honolulu HI

  Well Ballade is a good program, however I found it some what difficult
to use, I use Master Trax Pro 4.0 and Sequencer Plus Gold, you might want
to concider these programs instead.
  

                                                Russell

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Xref: sparky comp.music:5696 rec.music.synth:19465 rec.music.makers.synth:770
From: five@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (A.R.F.)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Robot voices & TX81Z question.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:23:46 CST
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

vick@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Mikael Lundgren) writes:

> Well, I'd appreciate some hints on the creation of the classic
> all-time high Kraftwerk et al Robot Voice. 
> I know you can use a delay in conjunction with a pitch shifter
> to get there, but I need some technical info on what equipment
> to use, which range the delay should work in etc.
> 
> I'm also interested in info on any hardware additions to the
> Yamaha TX81Z still being sold, like memory expansion.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> --
 
Vick.  Long time to chat.  In case no one has yet answered:
 
If you mean the Kraftwerk vocal effect that was much used on Man Machine 
and Radioactivity - the device used to produce this effect is a Vocoder.
Two sources for this effect are available in the Boss SE-50 and in the Korg
Wavestation rackmount.
 
As far as hardware upgrades, I remember reading about a device a few 
years ago that would quadruple the memory in the TX81Z.  I don't know if 
it's still available.
 
Five
> () University of Uppsala ,Sweden   |  Mikael (Vick) Lundgren      ____       
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: ckl@dec3.ncku.edu.tw (ckl)
Subject: SBpro + D-110 ...
Organization: NCKU Tainan Taiwan 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:31:21 GMT

I'm using Roland D-110 pluged on my SoundPlaster Pro, and there are some
question :

1. When I enter some Games (Falcon 3, Hardball III) and try to change
   music equipment to ROLAND or MT-32, I got a "can't detect device"
   message. What's that mean? What should I do?

2. I want to adjust my D-110 into MT-32 compatible, how can I do it?
   Someone told me that I'll need a timber parameter table, how can
   I get it?

3. I've lost my menual of D-110, is there any way to get a new one?

Thanks a lot!
--
                                    Kuanliang Chen
                           E-MAIL : ckl@dec2.ncku.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: chalmers@violet.berkeley.edu ("John H. Chalmers Jr.")
MMDF-Warning:  Parse error in original version of preceding line at gate.demon.co.uk
Subject: "Experimental Musical Instruments" publication
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:02:40 +0000

This forwarded for John Chalmers.
---
Nick: I don't remember how the discussion on new instruments started
or who originally asked the question as I have rather sporadic access
to USENET, but there is a journal devoted to the subject. It is
called "Experimental Musical Instruments" and covers new acoustic
instruments, electronic instruments, electrified acoustic, 
ocasionally also software, etc. It tends to favor acoustic or
hybrid instruments, probably because there are more experimental acoustic
instrument builders, but it is devoting more space to electronic and
computerized devices.  EMI is published by Bart Hopkin, PO Box 784,
Nicasio, California 94946, USA.

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From: ee91ajh@brunel.ac.uk (Adam J Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Internet MIDI jamming service?
Date: 11 Dec 92 17:54:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.music,rec.music.makers.synth
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Ralph 'Hairy' Moonen (cooper@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:

: OK, here's my question to all you musicians out there. How about a
: site you can telnet to on a special port, (with appropriate software
: ofcourse) send midi packets to that site (from your synth, guitar, whatever)
: and receive the other peoples midi packets back, with your own. That way
: people could have a jamming session on the net! Maybe open a second telnet
: port for on-line chat at the same time? People could actively participate
: in making music sans frontier, and others could just plug in from all
: over the world just to listen to what's going on.....
: With 10 musicians on a site at a time, you could have a blast at a virtual
: jam-session. Whadja say?

	This sounds like the real time side of NetJam - (send some mail with
	the message line 'request for info' to netjam-request@xcf.Berkeley.EDU
	for details of this).

	I haven't explored it coz I can't see it working on a global basis.
	The internet is a bummer speed-wise - simple text MUDs and BBS's are
	very slooowww across the atlantic link - how then could music a
	time-critical communication work globally? I don't know if it would
	even work locally - but then I haven't tried it :-)

	cheers...
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: iwatake@fire.cmlab.sfc.keio.ac.jp (Iwatake Toru)
Subject: Position Opening in Computer Music
Keywords: Position Opening
Reply-To: iwatake@sfc.keio.ac.jp
Organization: Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Fujisawa Japan
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:58:22 GMT

Dear Friends,

Faculty of Environmental Information at Keio University in Japan announces  
a position opening in Computer Music, which may extend to include  
Multi-Media Arts. 
Qualified person is invited to pursue his/her own area of interest. At the  
same time, s/he is expected to offer technical support to faculty members  
and students.
Interested persons are encouraged to send(no e-mails at this moment  
please!)
(1) a letter of application,
(2) at least 2 letters of recommendation,
(3) certificate of degrees,
(4) personal history/resume
(5) works recorded on DAT and/or video,
to
Dr. Hideo Aiso 
Dean
Faculty of Environmental Information
Keio University 
5322 Endoh, Fujisawa
Kanagawa 252, JAPAN

Following is the description of the position.

Position        Research Associate in Computer Music/Multi-Media Arts
Qualification   Higher degrees in computer music and its related areas.
  		  Training in computer science/engineering is also welcome.
Responsibility  To maintain the computer music/multi-media lab. and
 		  to develop creative environment, which may include
		  developing software and system administration.
		  The person may teach a few courses.
Starting salary Depends on the person's qualification.
     		  For example, annual income of a 27 years old person with 
      		  a Ph.D. would be about $41,600.00 for the first year,
               $43,500.00 for the second year, and so on.
Starting Date   April 1, 1993
Period of 
employment      Contract is made annually up to 3 consecutive years.
Deadline of 
Application     January 31, 1993
Housing	  All furnished apartment is provided by the university with   
		  charge.

Our on campus facilities include hundreds of computers ranging from main  
frames to various kinds of workstations which are connected through  
optical fiber LAN. In the computer music lab., our current facilities  
include Mac, NeXT, Sparc, and various MIDI machines.

Keio is Japan's oldest private university founded in 1858. among its 8  
faculties, ours is the newest just opened in 1990.
The working environment is very friendly and open to any eligible person  
regardless of religion, age sex, and national origin.
From: esb@ginger.cs.unh.edu (Edward S Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: What's next after mod?
Date: 11 Dec 1992 20:16:58 GMT
Organization: U.N.H(oloDEC 21)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.cs.unh.edu

I have attempted to keep track of the "state of the art" manipulation
of digitized sound and have landed, smack dab into this Med/mod arena.

Anyone, tell me, after the mod "bandwagon" comes to a halt, what's next that I can sink my teeth into?  I can't regress to the SB technology since it uses the FM-synthesis chips.  The only thing I can see is the GUS.  The next generation realistic music technology?  Implemented on hardware... what about software?

Any insight is appreciated!  Thanks!


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Xref: sparky comp.music:5679 comp.multimedia:3832 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:5327
From: kirkby@bandar.dg.oz (Chris Kirkby)
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.multimedia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Media Concepts 2.0 Sound Board
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:39:29 GMT
Followup-To: comp.music
Organization: Data General Australia

I have seen this sound card that is compatible with both the Sound Blaster 2.0 and 
Adlib cards and seems to work quite well, Does anyone know of any deficiencies with
this card ?
Does it support MIDI ?
Thanks 
Chris

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From: GS#0@lafibm.lafayette.edu (GS#0)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: voice
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:44:54 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College
Originator: news@lafcol

In article <BARSZ.92Dec15135412@bmtlh168.bnr.ca> barsz@bnr.ca (Peter Barszczewski) writes:
>In article <901003l.43.724441384@axe.acadiau.ca> 901003l@axe.acadiau.ca (MISHA LEBLANC) writes:
>
>   Can the new 16 bit sound boards opperate a computer by spoken words instead
>   of typing?  I need to know.  thanks?
>
>No.  What you are interested in is Voice Recognition software/hardware.  In
>general a PC is simply not powerful enough on its own to perform the
>computationally intensive operations required.  If you need to do this then
>re-post a question in comp.dsp (digital signal processing) and they might
>be able to help with advice on required hardware and software.

Voice recognition (albeit in a rudimentary form) is available on the Mac
- it's called Voice Navigation System.  It can be taught to operate
applications by voice.  There have also been countless demos of Casper,
the new voice recognition system which will be built into the Mac OS
real soon now ;-).  It is unlikely that Casper will run on the low end
Macs though.  For more info on Casper, post to one of the mac.groups
(best bet would be comp.sys.mac.digest - lots of knowledgable folks
hangout there :-)

Cheers - Shekhar Govind                govi@lafayette.edu
From: ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: powerbooks & midi
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:57:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.ibhan.724733862

alex@fiskville.mc.utexas.edu writes:

>It is my understanding that all the PowerBooks and PowerDuos are suspect  
>to dropouts of data at the serial ports because of their power management  
>hardware. Apparently there is a 6ms blackout of the serial ports every so  
>often (like pretty frequently) and if more data arrives at the port than  
>can be buffered it is lost. Also, during these blackouts data is held and  
>transmitted when the port is open again which can cause timing  
>irregularity. I am told that MIDI software works but that dense data  
>streams can be seriously chopped up. In other words, large amounts of  
>controller or sysex data may be garbled and you probably would not want to  
>do MIDI sample dumps (not a problem on the EPS as you have the SCSI sample  
>dump option).

I realize that Macworld said otherwise, but I've done extensive testing
with the PowerBook Duo 230 and my Korg Wavestation sythesizer.  Both
docked and undocked, I got the same results: both a full sysex bank dump
and general sequencing work without a single flaw.  It works perfectly
both ways (from and to the synth).
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: gord%jericho.uucp (Gord Wait)
Subject: Musical Applic. of micros wanted
Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:52:10 GMT


A few years back I saw a book called Musical Applications of
Microprocessors by Hal Chaimberland (roughly..). Now that I want a
copy, I found out its no longer in print. If anyone can point me to a
copy (preferrably the second edition) I would appreciate it!!

gord%jericho@uunet.uu.net
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: jab@cs.rit.edu (John A Biles)
Subject: Need computer music textbook
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:58:17 GMT

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?

                        - Al Biles  (jab@cs.rit.edu)
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From: purelght@deeptht.armory.com (Eric Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers
Subject: Re: Recommendations for a digital piano
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:03:21 GMT
Organization: Eric Braun Associates/PureLight Inc.

In article <vt3qw2k@lynx.unm.edu> JLow@hcisun.mdc.com (J Lo) writes:
>In article <1992Dec3.151827.174@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> Cliff Joslyn,
>joslyn@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>>I'd like to echo Jerry's question 100%, and add another:
>>
>>Are weighted, piano-like MIDI controllers distinct from these digital
>>pianos like the Korg and the Yamaha? Should I possibly get a
>>controller separately, rather than have them bundled together in some
>>marketeers dream of an all-in-one instruments for twits? ;->
>>
>>Thanks.
>
>That's a good question.  Just what exactly would you need if you got a
>MIDI controller vs a digital piano.  I've seen an ad for the Roland A30
>MIDI controller that it's under $800.  It has 76 weighted keys etc.  But
>I'm wondering if this is all I need, or do I have to get a synth module
>also?  
>
>Thanks
>
>Jerry

I use the Roland RD250 (76 keys). They make an 88 key version also. While
the discontinued this model, it has a great grand piano feel and sounds
real good. i use it as a controller for most of my needs. although it has
no modulation wheel. if i need one of those, i either use my DX7-II or you
could always buy a mod-wheel add-on. if you could find an RD250 used, it
ought to go for $700-$800.
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From: mczane@macbeth.eng.unipr.it (Francesco Zanichelli)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Advice on Technics keyboards sought
Keywords: keyboard
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:13:10 GMT
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
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I am considering buying a Technics PCM keyboard, namely the KN 550 one.
Does anyone in netland have used one of these ? It seems to me that
its voices are really nice. 

What alternatives would you consider in the sub $1500 price range ?
I'm mostly a MIDI player, but I would like also to learn regular play.

				Thanks,
					Francesco

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From: Geoff.Peters@p10.f861.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Geoff Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Mac ed-libs
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1992 00:13:18

 >   Does anyone know if X-OR is availiable for the Mac AND does it have and
 > editor for Casio's VZ-1 synth and Kawai's XD-5 drum synth?

The better ed-lib (IMHO) is MIDI Quest, from Sound Quest in Canada. Templates
are available for both your machines.

Info and no-save demos can be had by contacting:

Sound Quest
#2, 131 West 13th Avenue
Vancouver BC V5Y 1V8
CANADA
800-667-3998
604-874-9499
604-874-8971 fax


Geoff
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: Re: SCSI interface for the Peavey SX
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:00:00 +0000

>Grr.  "Happily" is stretching it a bit.  We've seen a number of transient
>weirdnesses
>between our Mac 2ci, Classic 2, Quantum disks and the SP.

Hmm. Possibly a loose connection somewhere. I've had no problems with mine,
except on the odd occasion when the SCSI cable has worked loose. 

>The timing and sequencing 
>of powering things up is mystical, at best.

I've not noticed any problems regardless of power-up order.

>Often we have to boot the SP twice in order to successfully see the hard
>drive. The SP also hangs "waiting for DMA  transfer" on random occasions.

I've only had the "waiting" message when cables weren't connected properly.

How's your termination?

                      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..."