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From: FELSKE@ERICH.TRIUMF.CA (FELSKE, WAYNE W.)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: Help... Playback slowdown problem...
Date: 16 Dec 1992 18:49:21 GMT
Organization: TRI-UNIVERSITY MESON FACILITY
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In stevela@csulb.edu writes:

> I've been using Cakewalk for Windows and Trax (Windows version) and everytime I
> moved my mouse during playback (a song), the timing was messed up (slow down).
> Is there anyway to prevent this problem?  I never have this problem with the
> Atari ST system!  Thanks for any advice...
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve

	I have seen the same thing on a friends pc. I use only and ST and 
agree this is rarely a problem and my software allows disabling the mouse.
	This of course is caused by the processor using it's precious time
servicing a mouse interupt request. Assuming Cakewalk won't allow disabling 
the mouse you may be able to find a program you can hot key into that will.
	On the other hand, if you want to use the mouse about the only thing
you can do is get a faster machine. It's only money!!

	Wayne Felske
	If computers were to make our lives easier why is it when
	I play anywhere my biggest worry is "What if the computer crashes"
	felske@erich.triuf.ca


Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: brianc@acuson.com (Brian Cox)
Subject: Re: Help: Ensoniq Mirage question
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:28:22 GMT

2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:

>With an Ensoniq Mirage and the MASOS, how does one split the keyboard in order
>to play 4 different samples?  It appears that this is possible, yet I cannot
>find the documentation to pull it off...
> 
>Please respond via E-mail to 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu.  Thanks!

>--------------------------------------------------------------------
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>----------------------------------------------| bad, it must be good
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Each sample has a parameter called top key.  (72 I believe...)
Sample 1 is assumed to go from the first key to topkey.  The next
sample goes from there to its topkey and so on.  The upper sounds
all start after the LAST lower sound, so you'll have to make sure
that the topkeys for any unused samples are set to 0 or some other
suitably low number.  I hope this helps.

PS I think you can change the "Current sample" parameter by setting
26.  I don't have my reference card with me at work, but I can look
it up if this doesn't work for you...


					--BC--

-- 

					   --Brian Cox--
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From: mir@chorus.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth,comp.music
Subject: Cakewalk file format
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:25:14 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.makers.synth
Organization: Chorus systemes, St Quentin en Yvelines, France
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Last days I tried to decode the format of Cakewalk
files, to support it in a portable and up-to-date
(yes, Cakwalk files evolve) cake -> midifile converter.
The starting phase was quite easy, because the binary
roughly follows the text format. I found about 26
basic record types, of which 5 (numbered 13 and
18..21) remain mysterious. I haven't found them in
any of the Cakewalk files I have, which are mostly
v.2 files.

I believe they could be partly related to the new
"Volume" and "Pan" track parameters, and also to
wave replay features that appeared in C4W. But
since I don't have a normal Cake yet, I cannot
produce them directly and the Windows clipboard
tricks don't seem to provide complete track
parameters.

My request is: could someone with a normal Cakewalk
produce a file containing 2 or 3 tracks with initial
"Volume" and "Pan" parameters, 1 or 2 notes, and
send them to me? It would be interesting to have
also a copy of the sample ascii format file coming
with C4W, but since it is not included in the Windows
demo (it was included in the demos of non-Windows
versions), it is probably copyrighted...!
-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: jpittas@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.pittas)
Subject: Matrix-1000 Problems
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:05:15 GMT


It looks like my Matrix-1000 needs to go into the shop for repair.
A few of the front panel buttons no longer are responding, namely
the '8', '9' and 'enter', and sometimes '+' and '-' depending on
what mode I'm in.  MIDI-wise, everything seems okay, except that
I can't get to banks 8 and 9 (is there a way to do a bank select
via MIDI?).  Reset via holding down 'enter' and powering on doesn't
do anything.  Has anyone else ever seen this problem?  Any idea
of a typical repair cost (I'm in NJ)?  Is this complicated by the
fact that Oberheim's no longer around?  Anyone want to buy it as is? ;-)
Thanks in advance!

John Pittas
AT&T Bell Labs
jjp@mink.att.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: Re: The k2000's effects being weak ???
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:00:00 +0000

>Everybody raves about these effects and sounds and you claim they're weak.
>How come ?

Because I think they're weak. I'm used to vocoders, pitch-shifters,
exciters, enhancers, phasers, all this kind of stuff. My encounter with the
K2000's onboard effects didn't do much for me.

>What's weak about them, is the sound of the K2000 impressive or
>not ??

I wasn't that impressed with it. But then, the sheer sound quality and
character is only one aspect of whether a machine is worth having or not.

>Do you mean the effects are weak compared to a dedicated effects
>box or do you mean weak compared to other music workstations ?

Both; my reference points are the Lexicon LXP-5 (outboard) and the
Wavestation EX (onboard). Oh, sorry: the WS EX isn't a workstation.

But you don't have to pay attention to what I think. Why not listen to a
K2000 and see what you think of it? It's an impressive machine in some
respects, the effects being IMO one of the weaknesses. I wouldn't mind
having one, but I'm not going totally misty-eyed over it. I'll leave that
to the K2000 owners here... :-)

                      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: rec.music.makers.synth
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: Re: K2000R. You don't scare me. Nyah!
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:24:44 +0000

>>Have any of you K2000 owners found your creativity enhanced and your
>>music improved by having one?
>
>Absolutely.

Shit.

>Nick, I've been reading your posts for some time now and I find
>it hard to believe that you have a creative block with the K2000.

Fair enough. Actually, I have more of an economic block with it. When the
K2000 hit these shores a couple of months ago they cost $5000. I expect the
K2000R to hit with a price of $3500-4000. And to my knowledge the sampling
option is still unavailable, and I expect it to have a $1000 price-tag
locally. In the meantime, I have shows to do, and the Peavey is here, now,
and works. I'll see what happens to US K2000 prices over 1993, and if they
come down a little I'll buy one from the US next year. But right now it's a
waste of money given the creative options I have available with the Peavey
and the Fostex MIDI mixers. I have no need for another synth, but I DO have
need for a versatile sampler.

>Perhaps you are
>looking for something more unconventional.

I'm looking for something CHEAPER! :-)

                      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: mir@chorus.chorus.fr (Adam MIROWSKI)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: What's your opinion of Yamaha TG100
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:02:22 GMT
Organization: Chorus systemes, Paris, France
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scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
: 
: Recent Yamaha equipment supports MIDI bank select commands which does
: *not* fall under the category of SYSEX.  The bank select command uses
: controllers 0 and 32 to specify a 14-bit bank number (I forget which 
: controller gets loaded first).  Anyone developing software that
: allows the user to specify a program number should implement it
: as a bank+patch value.  Yamaha equipment prior to MIDI bank select
: merely uses high program numbers (typically over 100) to select banks.
: You should never have to resort to SYSEX for this stuff.

It uses bank select so well, that the SY85 doesn't ever recognize
patch change numbers above 64!!!

: SYSEX is such a terrible hack for realtime control of parameters.  It's
: too bad that's the route Roland has chosen to implement such capabilities.
: I fully understand that they're trying to extend the useful life of a
: standard 128-patch bank (and standard drum kit) by allowing "standard"
: modifications of the otherwise static palette.  There has to be a better
: way to do it.

You misinterpreted my propos a little. The GS standard means
sysex compatibility, but most of the important parameters
can also be controller using NRPN, ie. the Data Entry slider.
In order to modify voices you send a bank select ctrl message
then the patch change again.


-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: bdickens@el_padre.mitre.org (Brian Dickens)
Subject: New samples for Korg O1W/proX.
Keywords: Korg
Organization: Research Computer Facility, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:10:29 GMT

I bought a Korg O1W/proX, 88-key weighted keyboard.

It's nice, but I am now interested in having it make more sounds...

What kinds of samplers are there that would be compatible with this keyboard,
and what kind of sound can I expect out of them?  How well will they integrate
with the Korg?

Any help would be appreciated...
-bdickens

Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: georg@miro.nlp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (Georg Mueller)
Subject: Re: Repost: Korg Wavestation A/D vs 01W/D Differences?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:09:50 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt, Institut fuer Angewandte Physik

In article <skipa.724392863@milton> skipa@milton.u.washington.edu (Skip Albertson) writes:

   I posted this question 2 weeks ago, went out of town & the
   replies have now expired!  Could someone please explain the
   differences (pors & cons) between the Korg Wavestation A/D &
   the 01W/D Pro?

   Thanks in advance,
   E-Mail if you've already posted a reply,

   alberts@apl-em.apl.washington.edu

Hey Nick, lets start some serious 01W/D bashing to bring back the
glory of those M1 flamewars :-).

	Georg.

Sorry, couldn`t resist. It`s Xmas time.
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: Re: Matrix-1000 Problems
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 12:18:28 +0000

>I believe sending a mod wheel message of 127 before a program change 0-9
>will select the bank.

Oh yucko. That's wonderful design for live use... Sure you don't mean
controller 0? (Mod wheel is #1.)

                      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: rec.music.makers.synth
From: naherzin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Neil A. Herzinger)
Subject: Re: Matrix-1000 Problems
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 15:22:34 EST

In article <1992Dec16.150515.23015@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jpittas@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.pittas) writes:
>
>I can't get to banks 8 and 9 (is there a way to do a bank select
>via MIDI?).  Reset via holding down 'enter' and powering on doesn't

Re: Bank select via Midi, Yes there is a way.  You need to set the modulation
to full (Controller #1 to 127), send a patch change for the back (0-9), turn
modulation back to off (Controller #1 to 0), then send a patch change for
the rest of the sound (0-99).  It's a convoluted method, but it works.  Make
sure you put some space between commands too, when I do this from my sequencer,
I usually put a quarter note between the commands.

neil.herzinger...graduate...art.media.studies...computer.graphics...syracuse.u.
....................................grae.com...................................
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sunday, 20 Dec 1992 19:26:37 CST
From: <U15708@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: MT Pro IRQ settings

Hello,

Do you happen to know how to specify an IRQ 3 with address 330 in MT Pro?

Thank you.

[:> Mario

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pa vu ga di ke zo ni  u15708@uicvm.uic.edu | | _| | | |__| | | _| | | |__| |
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Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: Re: Do built-in effects in a multitimbral box make sense?
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:00:00 +0000

>Is this still a consideration or
>is it inaccurate to assume this?  

It might have been true for pseudo-effects like echo on boxes like the
TZ81Z. For true effects processors, polyphony isn't effected (as it were).

                      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: dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: FOR SALE: Yamaha DX100, best offer takes it.
Date: 13 Dec 92 18:55:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: bradley.1992Dec13.185501.28697
Organization: Bradley University



I have a Yamaha DX100 synthesizer for sale.  It's in good shape, but is
missing manuals.  I need to sell it fast.

I'd like to get $150 for it but I'll consider any fair offer, so don't be
shy!  I'll pay half the shipping.
-- 
 davE.   Making the world safe for intelligent dance music.  dave@bradley.edu.
########## David L. Vessell -- Bradley University Computing Services #########
  "I generally don't sing along with people who tie me up." - Robin Williams
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From: gingeric9178@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.synth,comp.music
Subject: WANTED:Vocoder
Date: 16 Dec 92 10:41:14 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Hello,
   Anyone who has a device with vocoder capabilities and would like to sell it,
I am interested.  That is all.

Robert Williams
From: mir@chorus.chorus.fr (Adam MIROWSKI)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: What's your opinion of Yamaha TG100
Date: 12 Dec 92 15:48:37 GMT
Organization: Chorus systemes, Paris, France
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping) writes:
: I have a chance to get the Yamaha TG100 for about US $300.
: I'd like to find out from you MIDI gurus what you think of
: it. It seems to be a nice small box that supports general
: MIDI. I am looking for something in the same price range
: as the Roland SCC-1 (which this is). How do the sounds compare?
: Any limitations? Thanks for your time.

The box is advertized as using AWM technology, ie. 12 bit
sampling. The 4-page pamphlet doesn't mention the sampling
resolution otherwise.

It doesn't have chorus.

It isn't GS compatible and won't understand Sound Canvas/GS
sysexes embedded in sequences.

It can play Disk Orchestra pieces, but those diskettes
cannot be reproduced from the MDF-2 which is advertised
as a companion sequencer.

Only 1 demo song.

Voice names only 8 chars.

Haven't heard it yet.

Among positive points: the sounds seems more editable
than on a SC, 4 more polyphony voices, can be used
as/without a MIDI interface on a Mac (but probably
only "without" on a PC).
-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
From: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Yamaha YS200
Date: 20 Dec 1992 06:17:24 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
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A friend of mine sells Yamaha YS200 synthesizer for $250. Is it a good deal?

Any comments appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
	Raphael
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: Re: Info on MicroWave Wanted
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:00:00 +0000

>  o How's the MIDI implementation? Can I do a lot of funky modulations
>    based on MIDI clock, or it it just a few MIDI controllers or 
>    just vanilla pitch bend and mod wheel or what?

Lots of modulation options (including sideband modulation), but MIDI clock
isn't one of them.

>  o How's the polyphany & multitimbrality?  (is that a word?)

Eight and eight.

>  o What is it, anyway? Digital or Analog?

Digital wavetables, analogue filters.

>  o How would you characterize the sounds you can make with it?

Go buy a copy of Tangerine Dream's EXIT album.

>    Will I
>    be able to generate a million and one weird Kraftwerk-style beeps
>    and twitters?

I should think so.

>How can the sounds change over time?

Dramatically.

>  o What's your overall impression of the machine - what's it good at, and 
>    what's it capable of that might not be apparent from an hour of listening 
>    to presets and twiddling edit parameters?

Very good at sharp, metallic, sweeping, rich sounds. Not much when it comes
to subtlety unless you take great care programming it. It's a
special-purpose synth, with a distinctive sound.

>    Thanks, everybody. Please don't send me messages telling me to buy a K2000
>instead, unless you have used 'em both and can give me some solid reasons....

I've used 'em both... I prefer the MicroWave. I refuse to be frightened by
the K2000.

                      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: rec.music.makers.synth
From: castor@grizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu)
Subject: Serial based MIDI interfaces
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 19:26:56 GMT

Does anyone have any recommendations for a MIDI interfaces which work with
a generic rs 232 serial line?  Ideally the box would have a bit of buffering
so that one could run the serial line at 19,200 baud or  so, to be more
in line with typical workstation serial line speeds.  I saw an ad for the
MIDIator product, but the "workstation capable" version which didn't depend
on being able to reprogram the UART cost over US$200.

(I finally bought a computer, but it's an oddball workstation rather than
something standard, and I'd like to be able to interface it to my synth,
for archival purposes, and maybe even some sound editing software if
I get ambitious. . . However, since it's an oddball, I've gotta go
through the serial port. . . which operates at  mediocre speeds.  The
manual claims 9600 baud is its limit, but I don't have faster devices handy
to test how true this is.)

Also. ..  Anybody have an idea about how fast devices tend to REALLY pump
out data?  Does a typical SYSex dump really go at 30 kbps for sustained
periods of time?

I suppose when sequencing using a continuous controller, one might see
some pretty huge amounts of data going down the wire.

--
Castor Fu, (foo@leland.stanford.edu)
From: trog@midiline.la.ca.us (Ralph Stempel)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Re: The k2000's effects being weak ???
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 04:09:48 PST
Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

phammond@cs.tcd.ie (Paul Hammond) writes:

> >
> >The downsides are when the effects processor(s) are weak (like in the
> >K2000), or when you can't get many independent effects routes.
> >
> >                      Nick Rothwell  |  "Say, how many contemporary dancers
> 
> Everybody raves about these effects and sounds and you claim they're weak.
> How come ? What's weak about them, is the sound of the K2000 impressive or
> not ?? Do you mean the effects are weak compared to a dedicated effects
> box or do you mean weak compared to other music workstations ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul

   Both.

-----
trog@midiline.la.ca.us (Ralph Stempel) 
MIDILine BBS (midiline.la.ca.us) - Altadena CA - (818)797-3285
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
From: will.roch803@xerox.com (Will Weidman)
Subject: Win 3.1 and DOS MIDI programs
Reply-To: will.roch803@xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Webster NY
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:30:44 GMT

I am interested in moving into the Windows sequencer world from DOS, but my editor/librarian for my Kurz 1000PX is a DOS program.  In Win3.1 I am using the music quest driver that came with the WinCake demo.  What I would like to do is run my Windows sequencer (Cakewalk or Cubase -- don't know which yet) and have my editor/librarian running in a MS-DOS window.  The driver I have doesn't allow this.  Is there one that does?

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From: din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Clarence Din)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.synth
Subject: Patches for my U-220?
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:02:10 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I just got a new U-220.  Thanks to all who supported this fine
machine.  Is there an FTP site with patches for it?
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