From: latta@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Craig R. Latta)
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Subject: ... Monthly Electronic and Computer Music FAQ, via NetJam, Berkeley, part /usr/users/ftp/ftp_public/misc/netjam/doc/FAQ/split/6 of 6 ...
Date: 17 Aug 1992 08:00:04 GMT
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the ucsd.edu archive and elsewhere.  It supports any MPU-compatible
MIDI interface.  The glib librarian/editor, also found in
the ucsd.edu archive, can use this driver (email me for the changes).
The Keynote system (see the NetJam FAQ) can also use this driver.
There is also a version of devmidi that allows it to be used with VP/IX,
so you can run DOS MIDI software under UNIX.

For any machine with a standard serial port, you can use the
Key Electronics (1-800-533-MIDI) MIDIATOR MS-114 interface - it goes
from standard RS232 to MIDI.  There's no buffering, so to avoid input
lossage you need to run the RS232 at 38.4Kbaud.  For MIDI output,
you can run the RS232 at lower rates and still get usable results.
For machines that can run their RS232 at the exact MIDI rate, you
can get by with a cheaper version of the MIDIATOR, I think, the MS-101.
Keynote also supports the MIDIATOR, although I don't recommend it
if there are better alternatives (like the MPU).

Semi-related plug: Robin Schaufler is giving a talk at the upcoming
USENIX, called "Realtime Workstation Performance for MIDI", which
discusses MIDI on the Silicon Graphics Indigo.

    ...Tim Thompson...AT&T Bell Labs/Holmdel/NJ...tjt@blink.att.com...


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Q: What is the status of the Music Kit on NeXT machines?

A:

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 09:54:03 CST
To: nextmusic-list@wri.com
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Subject: Re: Sound and Music Kits in 3.0?

The Music Kit is no longer supported by NeXT under 3.0.  It will not be bundled
with the software.  Development and management of it will be handled from now
on by Stanford University.  This is happening because of a complete lack of
commercial interest in the Music Kit (as NeXT sees it).  They feel the need to
trim software support for things that will not directly contribute to the
financial success of their company.  They said they may re-introduce it at 
"some later time" once they have a chance to expand a bit.

I learned all this from a session on "NeXT on Campus" at the NeXT Expo.

Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>


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Q: What ear-training software is there for the NeXT?

A:

Date: Sun, 9 Feb 92 19:18:54 EST
From: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland)
Subject: New Music Ear Training Software for NeXT - Audio Challenger 1.0

"Announcing the release of "AUDIO CHALLENGER 1.0"

"Audio Challenger 1.0"  is the first ear-training software released  
for the NeXT computer.  Audio Challenger randomly generates ascending  
and descending melodic musical intervals which can be used in  
assisting music students in trying to improve their ability to  
aurally identify musical intervals.   Audio Challenger features  
real-time synthesis on the DSP (digital signal processing) chip of  
the NeXT computer which gives it the advantage of a more natural and  
"lively" musical timbre than ear-training programs that currently  
exist on other platforms.  Audio Challenger is released as FREEware  
to the internet archives by the researchers and students of DREAMS:   
Digital Research (in) Electro-Acoustic Music (at) Skidmore College.

"Audio Challenger 1.0" is currently at the following archive sites:

*Archive Info:

 filenames: AudioChallenger.tar.Z
	            AudioChallengerREADME


1)  location: nova.cc.purdue.edu
     directory: /pub/next/submissions (likely to move to
                                  /pub/next/2.0-release/binaries)
  


2)  location: cs.orst.edu
     directory: /pub/next/submissions (likely to move to  
/pub/next/binaries)
     

     

3)   University of Maryland:  umd5.umd.edu
              /pub
   

4)  ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu
      /pub

After FTP'ing AudioChallenger.tar.Z, type: zcat AudioChallenger.tar.Z  
| tar xvf -
note: you may need your system administrator to uncompress and untar  
AudioChallenger.




Anthony G. Holland
Associate Professor of Music
NeXT Campus Support
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
tel: 518-584-5000 ext. 2606

next mail: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu


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Craig R. Latta           Experimental Computing Facility                (XCF)
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