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Newsgroups: comp.music
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
X-Sender:  (Unverified)
Subject: Re: Apple SCSI Midi
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 10:18:25 +0000

>Could this be the ultimate solution for my MIDI woes???

I doubt it; for a start, who wrote the drivers? Do they interface with MIDI
Manager or OMS? Do they work?

                      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: iani@ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Zannos Iannis)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: just-tuned synth
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:46:06 GMT
Organization: RCAST, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan


>>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?

It would be interesting to me at least.  It is a natural extension to
the software-tuning idea, and it would have many applications, as you
can give notes individual expression, make them sensitive to other
notes, control ornaments or accompaniment figures as "macros".  It
sounds like a very good idea for extending the keyboards capacities by
computers.   Could also be applied to a piano with MIDI interface, for
"prepared piano" in a new way.   Sounds promising. 

Question: How do you realize the soft-tuning?  I assume that you do
not send a complete user-tuning for the entire keyboard each time a
retuning is requested, but rather modify each note every time it is
played.  What MIDI command do you use (a. control, b. pitchbend
(14bit), c. aftertouch?).   

Subquestions on this:  

1. In the case of a. and b. it is necessary to play notes with
separate control messages on separate channels.  That is no problem if
you record each voice on a separate channel with a sequencer, but
automatic realtime of polyphonic keyboard input could be tricky.  What
is your approach?

2. Given that the modulating command cannot be sent simultaneously
with the note-on command, how well does the synthesizer respond to the
modulation?  (From your description I gather that there are no
problems like bent notes or "glitches", or unevennes of volume, but I
have experienced such problems on an EMU Proteus).

Ioannis Zannos  (iani@ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: soltys@cs.unc.edu (Mitchel Soltys)
Subject: MPU-401 send and get how?
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:14:35 GMT


Could someone please tell me where I may be able to get information that will
tell me how to send and receive midi data from an MPU-401 compatible board. I
would like to write some simple music composition programs of my own and will be
programming in Turbo C on an IBM compat PC. I'm not really looking for
toolkits, but for specifications on how to do all of the programming
myself. Thanks in advance for any help.


Mitchel Soltys
soltys@radonc.unc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: durian@watneys.uswest.com (Mike Durian)
Subject: tclm0.1 available in comp.lang.tcl
Keywords: TCL, MIDI, interpreted language
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:33:35 GMT

  I just posted the sources for tclm 0.1 to comp.lang.tcl.  Tclm is a tcl
interpreter with extensions allowing you to manipulate MIDI files.
Support for the BSD/386 MPU-401 compatible device driver is
also included.
  The source should also be available at barkley.berkeley.edu
sometime in the near future.

Mike Durian - durian@advtech.uswest.com
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Is anyone running serious MIDI on OS/2?
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:25:45 GMT


I just installed OS/2, and I'm curious whether anyone is
using OS/2 to run serious MIDI applications (ie. Window's
sequencers & librarians, and MIDI cards).  So far, what I've
heard about OS/2 and midi has not been good, and I'll quickly
leave OS/2 if I find that MIDI will be difficult. 
Advice and opinions are appreciated!


-- 
Brian Ross                          "Welcome to Canada." -- Twin Peaks Movie.
bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca            
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: laforgue@uniriv.vbo.dec.com (Bernard Laforgue@VBO DTN 828-5857)
Subject: Re: Play CD on DEC ?
Reply-To: laforgue@uniriv.vbo.dec.com (Bernard Laforgue@VBO DTN 828-5857)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:26:12 GMT


There is software named xcd available on the net or on the Freeware CD
 distributed by DEC.

extract from the xcd.README

        The xcd kit is available via. anonymous FTP from gatekeeper.dec.com
        in the directory pub/DEC.  The files are:

        xcd.README                      this file
        xcd.tar.Z                       prebuilt binary for DECstations
                                        (works on both low and high res.
                                        monitors)
        xcd_source.tar.Z                source code for low res. monitors
        xcd_source100.tar.Z             source code for high res. monitors

Enjoy,
Bernard Laforgue
Open system consultant
DEC
From: heritier@delta4.frec.bull.fr (Franck HERITIER)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: ____ ROL file FORMAT ___
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:52:58 GMT
Reply-To: heritier@delta4.frec.bull.fr (Franck HERITIER)

Does anyone have the details of .ROL files used by AdLib and compatible
cards on PC? I need it for my Turbo C ROL editor...
Thanx.
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: a904044@tiuk.ti.com (Graham Short         (0004 grhm))
Subject: MPU-401 specification
Reply-To: a904044@tiuk.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments Ltd.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:04:58 GMT


Can anyone tell me where I can get hold of a formal MPU-401 spec.
I have a couple of demo programs that play notes on a MIDI
keyboard and load and dump SYSEX files, but I would like to
find out what other capabilities are available. An ftp site for
the spec would be ideal.

Thanks
      Graham
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: chuckm@canada.hp.com (Chuck Munro)
Subject: Re: Keyboard
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:43:38 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Canada Ltd, Dartmouth, N.S.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Boy, am I glad I've started to follow this newsgroup!

I thought I was the only MIDI owner in the world without a lot of musical
talent ....  it does my heart good to hear that many others are in the same
"enthusiastic beginner" category.

For my money, I decided that getting a *good* basic keyboard was a proper
beginning to exploring MIDI.  Buying in a modular fashion at least doesn't
lock me into gear I can't get rid of as technology moves on, and a quality
keyboard is something that should have lasting value (I hope!).

Soooooo, I shelled out a few extra bucks and bought a Roland A30.  It is of
the 72-key variety, has minimal electronics onboard, is touch-sensitive,
has a pitch/bend controller and a few programmable buttons, feels good to
the touch, and seems quite robustly built.

One thing really bothered me about the less-expensive units ...  their
small size and light weight made them hard to properly mount on any kind
of decent floor stand, making them "feel" unstable.  (I don't have the
option of putting my keyboard on a table top.)   I also felt that if things
go as they often do in this game, I'd soon want to spend more money on a
better unit anyway.

I know the A30 is not the cheapest keyboard by a long shot, but an item
this basic will have an impact on how I relate to the rest of the hard-
ware/software I purchase as time goes by.   I'm hoping it grows with me.

My $0.02 worth, anyway.   I'd be interested in other netfolks' opinions.

Chuck [so_much_to_learn!] Munro.

Newsgroups: comp.music
From: eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Algorithmic Composition Contacts Needed
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:02:52 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Computing Research Lab


I am doing a paper on Algorithmic Composition and am looking for names
and numbers of people in the field that I can contact.  Specifically,
I am trying to contact:

Charles Ames (Kurzweil Cybernetic Composer)
Charles Dodge (Fractals)
David Zicarelli (M, Jam Factory)

Any other contacts would be appreciated as well.  Please email, as I
rarely read this group.

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From: cjp+@pitt.edu (Casimir J Palowitch)
Newsgroups: comp.music,alt.emusic,bit.listserv.emusic-l
Subject: Re: Looking for System Recommendations
Date: 10 Jan 93 04:46:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.music
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1io3cgINNke6@harpo.uccs.edu> sahr@piglet.uccs.edu (Kevin Sahr) writes:
>A friend of mine is a pianist interested in experimenting
>with electronic music. He has about $3,000 to spend for a
>complete system (computer, software, keyboard, interface
>boards, etc.). Does anyone have any recommendations on what
>he should/should not purchase?
>
>Kevin Sahr
>sahr@piglet.uccs.edu
>CAE-Link Corp.

If your friend is a higher ed. type (faculty/student/staff), s/he can
purchase a basic NeXTStation UNIX workstation for about $3400.00 This
unit is the Computer Music platform of choice in academia.  The reason?
Built in DSP chips and sound A/D/A, plus an extroardinary amount of
software produced in pub domain/freeware/shareware by academics and
computer musicians for production of high quality computer music. 

If your friend is looking for a sequencing platform, Mac or PC all the
way.  NeXT has poor MIDI implementation.  As a matter of fact, the only
sequencer program for NeXT, Presto by Pinnacle Research Inc., as of yet
*does not work* on my NeXTStation Turbo and after 3 months of asking, no
one can tell me definitively why.  

Casey Palowitch
cjp@unix.cis.pitt.edu


-- 
** Casimir J. (Casey) Palowitch  -  In 1996, there will be two kinds  **
**      Slavic Cataloger         -  of computer professional : those  **
**  U. of Pgh. Library Systems   -       who know NeXT, and those     **
**   cjp@unix.cis.pitt.edu       -              without Jobs.         **
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: benst@olivetti.nl (Ben Stuyts)
Subject: Yamaha disklavier disk format wanted
Organization: Olivetti Systems & Networks, Nederland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:53:29 GMT

Dear net,

I got a sampler floppy disk for the Yamaha disklavier. It is a 720
KB 3.5 inch disk, and contains about 12 songs in what seems to be
a proprietary format. I'm able to read the raw disk, so I basically
now have a 720 KB file... I'd like to convert these songs into
standard midi so that I can play them on my keyboard. Does there
exist a program to do this? If not, I guess I'm going to write one.

But before I dive in, try to unravel the format and write a converter
program, I would like to ask if anybody has already looked at this.
Any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ben Stuyts (benst@olivetti.nl)
From: sclark@ocf.berkeley.edu (Steven Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Q. re: Direct-to-disk cards for Mac
Date: 9 Jan 1993 18:38:18 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

Question: Are there currently any 8-track direct-to-disk
recording cards for the macintosh? How much do they go for? 

If not, would it be possible to use two 4-track cards (i.e. Audiomedia)
and link them to get the equivalent of 8 tracks?

Please e-mail replies to sclark@ocf.berkeley.edu

Steven
From: jwilson@msen.com (Jeff Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Looking for Yamaha Clavinova files, programs, formats
Date: 8 Jan 1993 07:51:53 -0500
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com
Summary: Looking for Yamaha Clavinova files, programs, file formats
Keywords: Yamaha Clavinova


I'm looking for music files and programs for the Yamaha Clavinova.

Does anyone know of any ftp sites, catalogs, SIGS, or ? 

I'm also interested in any information regarding the file format for
Clavinova music disks.

Please e-mail any information to me and I will post a summary for
other interested persons.

Thanks up front.

Jeff Wilson
Applied Computer Solutions, Inc.

jwilson@msen.com
From: kfischer@ada.seas.ucla.edu (Kevin J. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Music fonts...
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:46:06 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

I am looking for public domain scalable music fonts.  I would
prefer something in either the ATM or TrueType formats, but
anything would be appreciated.  I know that music fonts some-
times go under the name 'Sonata'.  Any information on the
location of such fonts would be useful.

Thanks,
Kevin
From: pan@pannet.UUCP (The PAN Network)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: RE: Fundamental Frequencies of the Music 
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:26:31 EDT
Organization: The PAN Network
Reply-To: midigod@pan.com



Regarding your inquiry on fundamental frequencies; I can supply you with all of
them, but I'm at a remote location and don't have the documentation with me.
Please give me a call, Craig, at 303-674-5933 on any evening during the week and
I'll relay them over the phone.
From: pan@pannet.UUCP (The PAN Network)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: "Conducting" MIDI in real time? 
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 00:50:41 EDT
Organization: The PAN Network
Reply-To: midigod@pan.com



I'm sure several others will do it, but Cakewalk Pro for DOS allows you to tap
merrilly along to a prerecorded track (where you didn't lesten to the metronome
and just went nuts), and the program will figure out a very complex tempo map
for you and store it. The tempo resolves to within a tenth of a BPM. Very nice.
MIDIGOD
From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: just-tuned synth
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:44:58 GMT
Reply-To: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Organization: Heurikon Corporation, Madison, WI

dmcnamar@netcom.com (Dennis McMamara) writes:
>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.

Ah...you're using a *Pythagorean* scale and you want to claim that 
the thirds don't howl? You sure you're not using a 5th or 7th limit
just scale instead and being a trifle loose with the terminology?


--
The leveling weight of music and weather/closes the stores, drives the people
underground/into cool rooms under ducts and water pipes./There are ways to
prove the logic of whatever happens./In a movie, the darkness between each 
frame proves it./Gregory Taylor/Heurikon Corporation/Madison, WI/608-828-3385
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: bill@cv.hp.com (Bill Frolik)
Subject: What's going on here (SB Pro & Windows)?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:34:06 GMT

What's going on here: I've got an SB Pro in a 25 MHz 386 with 16 Mb of
RAM, and have been playing around with a few Windows programs that work
with MIDI files.  On more than several occasions I've run into the
following problem: Load a MIDI file into Microsoft's Media Player (the
thing that comes with Windows 3.1) and start it playing; the first one or
two measures play fine, but then the music stops and the system
IMMEDIATELY kicks out of Windows, clears the screen, and gives me a DOS
prompt.  After that, keyboard commands seem to work and although I can
start other programs, the mouse is dead (I'm sure other things are
corrupt as well).  I've seen WinJammer die in the same way, but the
separate player utility that comes with WinJammer seems to work fine.


Anyone seen this kind of thing before?

_________________________________________________
                                                       
Bill Frolik                   Hewlett-Packard Co. 
bill@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com         1010 NE Circle Blvd 
(503) 750-4082                Corvallis, OR 97330
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: WHERE CAN I GET MIDI FILES			
From: stown@cpd.Tandem.COM (Scott Townsend)
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:39:22 +1700

Keywords: MIDI MUSIC
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Cupertino CA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:21:02 GMT

I have a collection of about 20 midi files which I got
when I bought my sound board ( Pro Audio Spectrum 16 ).

I have acquired a midi jukebox software package for windows and
am able to play any subset of the midi files that I have. This
application runs under windows and provides excellent background 
music while I am working at my machine.

I would like to obtain more midi files. I have looked on bulletin boards
and in usenet, but I have not been able to find any either for sale or
for no cost. If you know of a source for obtaining/purchasing midi files,
I would very much like to hear from you. Any worthwhile information that 
I receive I will share with the net.

Thanks,

Scott
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
X-Sender:  (Unverified)
Subject: Re: Looking for used or good deal on a new Wavestation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:26:31 +0000

>I would prefer the KORG Wavestation SR, but if anyone is selling or
>knows of where to get a good deal on any wavestation, please let
>me know.

I really don't see the appeal of the SR. I mean, the WS is a programmers'
machine. Buying one for presets only is a waste, and the SR has such a tiny
display that it's going to be a real hassle to program. And it doesn't have
a joystick. The only possible use is as a second machine for a current WS
owner; and then it lacks the WS A/D's analogue inputs. I really don't see
the appeal of it. In fact, I don't even know what SR stands for.

                      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: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
X-Sender:  (Unverified)
Subject: Re: Where can I get Apple's MIDI Manager?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:27:31 +0000

>Does anyone have any info on where I can get Apple's Midi manager, is it
>something I have to buy, or is it available via FTP somewhere?

You buy it from APDA, unless it comes bundled with some other software package.

                      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: healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy)
Subject: Re: Casey Kasem wrote and boy is he pissed...
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:22:37 GMT


Speaking as a songwriter and musician - if you try to sell 
copyrighted material without permission, you are stealing
that material and breaking the law. It seems pretty straigh-
forward to me. If someone sampled one of my songs and/or
performances and used it without my permission, I would be
pissed too (of course, I'm small fry enough that I doubt if
anyone WOULD want to do that :-) ).

Mike Healy

healy@nosc.mil
From: mrk@gvgspd.gvg.tek.com (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Keyboard
Summary: bad idea!
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:37:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.music
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gvgspd.gvg.tek.com

In article <1993Jan9.011930.23012@netcom.com>
                              dmcnamar@netcom.com (Dennis McMamara) writes:

>Is there any easy way to defeat the hardware N-key rollover on a computer
>keyboard? If so, it would be easy enough to map the typewriter keys to
>note on- note off values and play chords rather than just melody.

I showed this to my girfriend, and, after she had read it, we looked at
each other and simultaneously went "Eeeewwwwwww!"  She then said Dennis
should take two piano lessons and call her in the morning.

8-)

-- 
============================================================================
Michael Kesti  Grass Valley Group, Inc. | "And like, one and one don't make
    mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM              |  two, one and one make one."
    !tektronix!gvgpsa!gvgspd!mrk        |         - The Who, Bargain
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: alexs@microware.com (Alex Stagg)
Subject: Re: Looking for used or good deal on a new Wavestation
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:37:34 GMT

In article <9301071826.aa07381@gate.demon.co.uk>, cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk
(Nick Rothwell) writes:
[...]
|> the appeal of it. In fact, I don't even know what SR stands for.

Single Rack (as in rack space) is my guess. It does have the ability to
use the newer and larger O1/W PCM cards as the waves. So, it may have 
a broader potential sound pallette than the earlier models.

-- 

Alex Stagg, Microware Systems Corporation
alexs@microware.com - 515/224-1929
From: lam@festival.ed.ac.uk (L Munro)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Computer music conferances
Summary: Where / when are any music conferances?
Keywords: Computer music conferances dates
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:42:26 GMT

Can someone send me a list of known Computer Music Conferances
I know there is the "International Conputer Music Conferance"
but where/when is it and what others are there?
Thanks,
	Lin.
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Interfacing Tascam DA-88 with a NeXT
From: cjp+@pitt.edu (Casimir J Palowitch)
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:05:07 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1ij6hpINN8bn@spock.dis.cccd.edu> maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi) writes:
>I'm sold on the DA-88 but don't want to have to buy another set of
>D/A A/D converters.  Has anyone figured out if the DA-88's digital
>data can be ported easily over to the NeXT without an aes/ebu interface.

What are you using as a digital interface now?  I am using the Stealth
interface DAI2400, and I plan to use it to record a stereo pair at a
time from my D-88 (no, I don't have one yet) into my NeXT to a program
like MetroTracks.  MetroTracks has not committed to supporting the
Stealth interfaces, but I don't see why they don't... they are
inexpensive and the adaptation would not be that difficult.  But who
knows? I haven't heard anything about their product really since the AES
show.  Maybe they are waiting for the new high-power NeXT box.  Rumored
to have a new audio system, allowing this type of work.

From the DA-88 side, you will probably have to buy their AES/EBU digital
I/O attachment, like you have to do with the ADAT.

>maurices

Casey Palowitch
cjp@unix.cis.pitt.edu

-- 
** Casimir J. (Casey) Palowitch  -  In 1996, there will be two kinds  **
**      Slavic Cataloger         -  of computer professional : those  **
**  U. of Pgh. Library Systems   -       who know NeXT, and those     **
**   cjp@unix.cis.pitt.edu       -              without Jobs.         **
Newsgroups: comp.music