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From: dmcnamar@netcom.com (Dennis McMamara)
Subject: just-tuned synth
Organization: Composer's WorkBench
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:36:50 GMT

I've done software that tunes a synth to a just ( Pythagorean) scale
thru an MP401 board on a pc. I'm not a keyboardist, but a couple of
rounds and chorales I've sequenced for it sound great! They have the
purity of sound of an excellent choir singing a capella ( sp?) or
with a string accompaniment.

Now I'd appreciate some advice on user's interface. Since the tuning
is in software, it is very fast to retune to a different key, say from
C to G. How would it be best for a keyboardist to do that?

My first thought was to ask in the setup routines for the synth note
that would indicate that the next note pressed would be the key note
for the new scale. That indicator note would be the leftmost or rightmost
key.

Would it be useful to be able to program a sequence of keys to retune to?
Perhaps every time you pressed the space bar it would tune to the next key
on a list set down at setup time?

I haven't tried it yet, but it should be reasonable easy to do a software
keyboard split, with each split having its own MIDI program. Would this
be of interest to many people?

Any and all feedback appreciated. Thanks.

-- 
Dennis McNamara dmcnamar@netcom.com
Purveyor of Fine Software: Composer's WorkBench

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: kirkby@bandar.dg.oz (Chris Kirkby)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: SoundBlaster Pro and MIDI
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:20:56 GMT
Organization: Data General Australia

Can anyone please tell me whether the SB is a resonable board to use
with some sequencing software a keyboard various sound modules.
Can the sequencer use the FM synthesis portion of the SB to play sounds.
In a nutshell could it be used for a mini studio ?
Thanks
Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers.synth
From: doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House)
Subject: Need help!  QUICK!
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 12:51:20 GMT



Hi, all!


I DESPARATELY need (by late tonight!) to convert a .MID file to a
format suitable for the DOS version of Personal Composer System/2!

Does anyone have the upgraded windows version?   Are there any
convertors included?

Does anyone have even a HINT of a foggy idea that would lead me to this
type of conversion utility?


Thanks a ZILLION if you can help me!!!! (Or even if you can't, and you
try!)

Doogie


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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: jbaxter@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joel Kent Baxter)
Subject: Re: MIDI on the IIvx (was: MIDI Interface & Powerbook 100)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 23:47:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.234535.15046@leland.Stanford.EDU> jbaxter@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joel Kent Baxter) writes:
>
>While there's been a lot of sound and fury about the "Powerbook MIDI question",
>I haven't seen anyone object to the statement above that the IIvx is MIDI-
>crippled.  Anyone with bona-fide knowledge please confirm or deny (my new
>IIvx is anxiously awaiting your response).
>
>				Thanks,
>
>				JB
>

Hello?  Anyone?  So far no answers on this one; please take a minute to reply
if you know anything about it.

				Thanks again (?),

				JB


Newsgroups: comp.music
From: healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy)
Subject: Re: Any programs for Atari & Yamaha SY 77
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:25:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.232839.694@sinus.stgt.sub.org> stefan@sinus.stgt.sub.org (Stefan Bechtold) writes:
>Are there any programs for an Atari computer and a Yamaha SY77 synthe-
>sizer existing ? If so , could you please give a ftp-address,etc. ?
>
>Thank you very much,
>Stefan
>-- 
>+ Stefan Bechtold # stefanb@delos.stgt.sub.org # Voice +49 711 813240 +
>++++++++sed nemo potuit tangere: merda fuit ! (Martial III 17)+++++++++
>

Check atari.archive.umich.edu . Look in atari/Midi subdirectory.     

Mike Healy

healy@nosc.mil
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
X-Sender:  (Unverified)
Subject: Re: OMS and AppleTalk
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:26:11 +0000

Even if OMS doesn't require the serial port used for AppleTalk, you might
find yourself dropping MIDI data and getting SCC overruns if you leave
AppleTalk active anywhere.

                      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..."

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: phygansl@nuscc.nus.sg (Seum-Lim GAN)
Subject: Yamaha SY77
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:58:34 GMT


Hello everyone,
   I am looking for some technical information about the sy77.
I need to know at what key(s) across the keyboard is(are) the samples in the
ROM sampled and what their lengths are.

Please mail me the answers if you hv them.

Another question : is yamaha in the network ? How can I send mail to them
over internet ?

Thanks
Seum-Lim GAN				Internet: phygansl@nuscc.nus.sg	
Department of Physics			Voice	: (65)-772-2615
Faculty of Science			Telefax : (65)-777-6126
National University of Singapore

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: jbaxter@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joel Kent Baxter)
Subject: Re: MIDI Interface & Powerbook 100
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 23:45:35 GMT

In article <C047y7.6x0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Andrew C. Crowell) writes:
>
>Hate to tell ya this, but buzz has it (according to a blurb in Electronic
>Musician) that _all_ Powerbook models, as well as the new Performa 600/IIvx/vi
>Macs, have a serial port problem when dealing with MIDI data. You just can't

 ...etc., etc.

>
>D.A.C. Crowell
>Computer Music Project/School of Music
>University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
>(dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu)
>

While there's been a lot of sound and fury about the "Powerbook MIDI question",
I haven't seen anyone object to the statement above that the IIvx is MIDI-
crippled.  Anyone with bona-fide knowledge please confirm or deny (my new
IIvx is anxiously awaiting your response).

				Thanks,

				JB


Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.text
From: joek@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Joe Karthauser)
Subject: Re: OCR Music software
Keywords: OCR, Music
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:52:02 GMT

In article <ziegenfE.725648863@batman>, ziegenfE@moravian.edu (Eric W. Ziegenfus) writes:
|> Is anybody working or thinking about writing an OCR application to read
|> sheet music and convert it into a known computer music format for play
|> back or editing?
|> 
|> -- 
|> 
|>                /---------------------------------------------\
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A company called Electromusic research (EMR) were working on this for the Acorn
Archemides a few years ago. I can't remember where they are but they've done a
lot of stuff for both the Beeb and the Archie so they shouldn't be too hard to
track down.

Hope this helps,

	Joe


Newsgroups: comp.music
From: conway@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Thomas Charles CONWAY)
Subject: Re: Computer Music
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:20:07 GMT

drew@tcom.stc.co.uk (Drew Wagar) writes:

>Hello there,

>	Sorry if this question is in the wrong newsgroup, but here goes.

>I'm looking to produce some simple music from a computer perhaps up to
>four tracks simultaniously and I need a cheapish computer to do it on.

>I've been looking at

>The Atari ST
>The Amiga A500
>A PC with a sound card (any recommendations? I have 286 laptop PC.)

>I am on a budget of about 300 pounds (sterling) ($500?)
>Midi would be nice as an option, not essential
>Software capable of displaying staves on screen ideal.

>Any one recommend what sort of set up would be best?

>Thanks a lot,

>Drew.

Ah, well, I bet very ST, Amiga, or PC owner think that their machine is
the best for music. I think if the truth be told, it's really a case of
six of one, half a dozen of the other.

I know that the amiga can do what you require - I have used mine for
such purposes, but fairly quickly found that 8-bit sounds at the amiga's
quite limited sample rate got on my nerves pretty severely. I then bought
a keyboard and a midi interface, which was much better.

I am pretty sure that pretty much the same thing would have happened had I
got an ST or a PC.

Certainly, if you think it possible or likely that you would end up doing
more complex music (like five voices instead of four ;-), the best software
around I would judge to be that on the ST - of course, that would require
you to have a midi keyboard of some sort, but there you go. The other thing
is that I believe that the ST software (Notator, Cubase, etc) is pretty
costly.

So, there you have my incredibly unbiased, totally well-informed view.
Hope it is of some use to you. Cheers!
Thomas

>-- 

>Pretty damn silly place to leave a signature...

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: cowles@convex.com (John Cowles)
Subject: Re: Roland MPU/Windows 3.1 problem
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: inet
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 01:36:09 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <1ijrqhINN2q3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ar559@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jan Buitenhuis) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>I recently bought a Roland MPU-IPC-T MIDI-card. When I want to
>install the appropiate Windows 3.1 driver (suplied by M.S.)
>the system hangs after I select the cards base adress ($330)
>and interupt (2/9).
>
>What could be the problem? The card is O.K., it works in the
>store. 
>(My systen: 386/387, 8MB, SCSI-180MB HD)
                           -------------

SCSI controllers typically use a microcoded port 330 to access SCSI disks.
I know that that is the case for my Adaptec 1542B. Adaptec has alternate
firmware to change the port address, but it's a pain. For this reason I have
a Voyetra midi card with jumpers to change the midi port. I am using port 310.
The problem with this is that I must reconfigure all my software to use port
310 (and 311) instead of port 330 (and 331). This is not always easy to do!

I know that the old Roland cards had a hard-wired port 330 - maybe the
newer ones will let you change. The SCSI controller manufacturers sure won't!

>
>Thanks, Jan

-- 
     John Cowles        cowles@hydra.convex.com
                        Convex Computer Corp.  214 497 4375
                        3000 Waterview Pkwy
                        Richardson, Tx. 75080
From: whitcomb@aurs01.UUCP (Jonathan Whitcomb)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Casey Kasem wrote and boy is he pissed...
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:06:10 GMT
Reply-To: whitcomb@aurxc3.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Jonathan Whitcomb)
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC

In article <1993Jan12.160602.9540@newsgate.sps.mot.com> birkelan@atelm.Berkeley.EDU (Joel Birkeland) writes:
>Seems to me that Mr. Kasem is 100% in the right on this one.
>
>Irrespective of the legal issue, I have always felt that real
>musicians make their own music, rather than steal it from others.
>
>Joel Birkeland
>birkelan@ash.sps.mot.com

Agreed.  Not to mention the dubious practice of publishing a private
letter on the Net, nor the silly comments inserted.

Hey, I've got an idea... why don't you tape a copy of your favorite
Negativeland album and sell it under your own name?  I'm sure the band
wouldn't mind.  SST was foolish to release the album without knowing the
band had the rights to the sampled material, so I can't say I wish them
any success in their suit.
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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan)
Subject: window reset my Yamaha
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff, New York
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:20:03 GMT

	I have a PC-MIDI card connected to my YAMAHA PRS300, everytime when I
start the window 3.1, it somehow "initialize" my Yamaha equip. and everythings
works fine. But as soon as I quit the windows, the yamaha goes crazy, it dosen't
work properly anymore, especially I couldn't adjust the tempo.
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
X-Sender:  (Unverified)
Subject: Re: MIDI and the IIvx (still steaming)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:45:32 +0000

>        1) A system enabler is part of the system software.  It is associated
>        with a particular machine, so I already have all the "enablers" for
>        the IIvx from the simple fact that I have system software installed
>        on it.

Enablers are patches for newer machines to run already-released software.
From what I've heard, you need one for a different reason: bug fix.

>        2) There aren't any separate system enablers.  You get the ones that
>        come with the system software, und das ist alles.

There will be new enablers for new machines, and perhaps more bug fixes.

>        3) There are no official problems with MIDI and the IIvx, although
>        Apple may be "looking into it".

There probably aren't any *official* problems. It's the unofficial ones
that important. The only thing Apple reliably look into is their collective
navel.

>        4) I should, in the future, not pay any attention to the rampant Mac
>        Misinformation on "bulletin boards" (what's he calling a bulletin
>        board?  Macweek?  The internet?  Who ^is^ this guy?).

Someone who doesn't seem to know much about what he's talking about, from
your account. Hell, if he did, he wouldn't be chained to a phone.

                      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..."
From: pan@pannet.UUCP (The PAN Network)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: RE: DOS-based Notation Programs 
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 00:50:35 EDT
Organization: The PAN Network
Reply-To: midigod@pan.com



I can't offer anything constructive on which program TO buy, only advice NOT to
buy Cakewalk if you want to print. Cakewalk will DISPLAY notation, but will NOT
print it. Astounding, no? But true.
From: urritche@mcs.drexel.edu (Ralph Paul Ritchey)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Apple Serial Port MIDI Drivers
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:40:27 GMT
Organization: Drexel University

Netters:

I'm looking for new sources for serial port drivers for doing MIDI
programming.  I've used the ones from Altech Systems, but unfortunately
they do not allow you to switch ports back and forth so that you can use
both ports at the same time (THE MANUAL DOESN'T WARN YOU ABOUT THIS, I
ONLY DISCOVERED THIS AFTER 2 WEEKS OF DEBUGGING CODE THINKING IT WAS
MY CODE).  I am fully aware of Apple's MIDI Manager, but is it begin/going to
be supported?  (At first glance a few months ago when I looked at it,
it didn't seem to be as easy to use as Altech's stuff, it seemed like you
had to take care of a lot more general junk...could be wrong though, it's
been a while.)  I've also heard of Opcode's MAX stuff, but I'm under the
impression you can't create stand alone apps with it.  Has anyone out there
written there own drivers, if so how, or where can I find information on it
so I can write my own?

Thanks bunches,

Ralph Ritchey
urritche@mcs.drexel.edu
From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Mac MIDI Problems
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:53:33 GMT

whitcomb@aurs01.uucp (Jonathan Whitcomb) writes:

>The current issue of Electronic Musician reports that the new Mac
>Performa 600 and Mac IIvx have a problem with MIDI due to an operating
>system change with regard to the serial ports.  Has anyone had any
>experience with this, or has a solution been found?
>*********************************************************************
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At least for the IIvx, I believe Apple has a new system enabler that
solves this problem.
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           "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
From: mir@chorus.chorus.fr (Adam MIROWSKI)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: WANTED:  CMF EDITOR
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:37:38 GMT
Organization: Chorus systemes, Paris, France
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mal4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marty Lamb) writes:
: Hi -
: 
:      I'm looking for a CMF editor or a .MID to .CMF conversion utility.  If
:      anyone knows where I can find one, I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks!

smf2cmf should be available from one of the Finnish
servers: garbo.uwasa.fi or nic.funet.fi. It has been
written by Creative Labs years ago. I think there is
also something called the CMF Composer, but don't
know how it is exactly distributed.

-- 
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Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
From: dessel@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Metaphysical Wonder)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: .MED files
Summary: what is one?
Date: 9 Jan 93 17:11:00 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Does anyone know what a MED file is?

Can I play it on a PC?

It doesn't work if I simply change the extension to .MOD and use a MODPlayer, although this is probably obvious.


			- Jason
						dessel@remus.rutgers.edu
						dessel@gandalf.rutgers.edu

Thanks all.
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.synth,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: What Determines Boot-up Video Mode?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:25:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.231843.26522@mlb.semi.harris.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>	I have a single frequency monitor which needs a 60 Hz
>vertical sync frequency. During boot up my computer evidently
>uses a 70 Hz vert. freq. so the monitor rolls vertically during
>this period. This continues until I can load a driver in CONFIG.SYS
>to change the video mode, or until a mode-changing utility can be
>invoked in AUTOEXEC.BAT.
>
>	Is there any way I can force a given video mode during
>the boot-up phase? Where is the video mode set during the initial
>boot? Is some standard mode always used? If so, what mode is it?
>
>	Thanks.
>
Its probably not the system as much as the video card you have since you can fix
it by loading a device driver (which I assume came from the video card maker).
See if there are any switches on the card that you can set to force it into a
different default setup. 

---JRE---


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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: jalbert@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Jalbert)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Question: SB .VOC files for samples in MODs
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:21:13 GMT
Reply-To: jalbert@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Jalbert)
Distribution: inet
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Well, wouldn't the well known SOX program from SIMTEL do that?
Must be in the usual SOUND directory where ModEdit and ModPlay can be found.

I used it once to go to and from VOC to raw sound. It has apparently a
ridiculously small buffer size so the hard-drive moved wildly back and 
forth as the conversion operation took place. Try to use it on a RAM disk 
whenever possible. The program does seem to work very well.

Hope this helps. Franky
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: chuckm@canada.hp.com (Chuck Munro)
Subject: Re: Roland MPU/Windows 3.1 problem
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:13:08 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Canada Ltd, Dartmouth, N.S.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

I had this same problem with my PC ....  the Adaptec 1542 SCSI card has a
base I/O address of 330.

In my case, the Roland SCC-1 card has switches to change its base I/O to
330, 332, 334 or 336.  I also had to change its IRQ to 5, because its
default 2 was already in use.

Everything plays together happily now, but I sure wish I could get the
Roland hardware and software for a UNIX workstation instead!!  (HP9000
series 700)

Chuck.
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: MIDI on the IIvx (was: MIDI Interface & Powerbook 100)
From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:15:53 GMT
 <1993Jan5.234719.15721@leland.Stanford.EDU> <3#02f0-@rpi.edu>

rose@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Mike Rose) writes:


>   Yes, the Mac IIvx is MIDI-crippled.  There was a sidebar in a recent
>MacWeek which stated the IIvx will screw up MIDI timings like the
>Powerbooks, although the reason for it is different.  Apple, of course,
>does not seem to really be concerned.  I would imagine, though, that
>Opcode will eventually include a fix for this just like there is a fix for
>the Powerbook MIDI problems in the new OMS 1.2.

I think Apple has already fixed it.  They have a new System enabler for
the IIvx.
-- 
               -  Ishir Bhan -  ibhan@husc.harvard.edu  - 
                                     - - - 
           "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
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