EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 8, Number 2 Today's Topics: Oberheim Matrix 1000 D-50 banks glib files from listserv@auvm (2 messages) Tape results Kurzweil PX Plus patches and ESQ-1 librarian MIDI 1.0 Spec. Help for DSS-1 The VFX has a sequencer?! (2 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 10:24:00 EDT From: a Pirate twin Subject: Oberheim Matrix 1000 I have a chance to pick up a Matrix 1000 for a nice price ... have any of you used this piece of gear? Can it be programmed, or is it merely a ROM unit? Is it multitimbral? (I know the Matrix 6 could play splits ... can this do the same?). Is this a good module for $500 Cdn (currently about $420 US), or should I be looking at some Roland gear for analog? I remember being impressed with the J8XP awhile ago - is that the Super-JX rack mount people have been talking about? ... and more questions about the D-50: does anyone know about a good librarian/editor that runs on an IBM PC? Thanks in advance, brian ------------------------------ = Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 10:21:47 BST From: Nick Rothwell Subject: D-50 banks I've fetched one of the D-50 banks from the archive, and it looks fine. I put the data through compress and uuencode before posting, and the inverse seems to work OK. "compress" is just the bog-standard Unix utility. The uncompressed data *cannot* just be sent straight to a D-50. It's just the contents of a D-50's memory (34688 bytes), with no SysEx wrapping or anything. To transmit it, it has to be split up into smaller packets with address and size headers, to be transmitted either sequentially or by handshaking. The Beaverton D-50 DA uses the 34688 format directly; other librarians might do the same. I can provide some PASCAL code which shows what to do; I'll be re-writing this in C fairly soon, I hope. Nick. ------------------------------ = Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 15:47:00 EST From: Chris Iverson Subject: glib files from listserv@auvm I downloaded some of the glib files from the archives, and discovered that I have no way to un-uuencode them. No one on our campus is familiar with uuencoding (is that a UNIX-based compression utility?), and, being totally Macintosh oriented, no one here knows how to deal with arc'ed files either. I should have said something way back when there was discussion of how these files were to be stored, but I didn't want to look stoopid not knowing what you guys were talking about. Now I look *real* stoopid, but it's a look I've grown accustomed to over the years.... Anyhow, could someone offer some help? I wouldn't be surprised if there are others on the list who have a similar problem... Thanx, -chris ------------------------------ = Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 16:27:33 EDT From: Eric Harnden Subject: arcs hmm, yes.. that does continue to be a bit of a thorn. tel you what... uuencode is pretty simple, and i've got some pascal source for it that should be adaptable to any system. now, uuencode is not a compression method, but a way of maintaining data integrity across many different kinds of network gates. the comprsession/arc things are more complicated, more os-specific, and some cases proprietary. i guess we're going to have to come up with some arc/binhex/zip/zoo crossers... any takers for the project? Eric Harnden (Ronin) The American University Physics Dept. (202) 885-2758 ------------------------------ = Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 10:44:40 EDT From: Cecilia Tan Subject: Tape results Guess what! We've gone over time. As a result I will have to do some editing of the material I recieved. I am trying to time out things now but I'll do my best to fit as much as I can in and be fair to everyone. Meanwhile, here's a preview of what I think will fit and how I'll do it. (You can still get a copy of the finished thing if you want) SIDE ONE Joe McMahon Liquid Crystals 3:52 this is very stereo Third Rail 3:55 this too, absolute vintage emusic Carl T Donath Vacuuous Scream 1:46 Digitized Horses 2:50 good found sounds here David Mantripp Raft 10:50 electronic oceanscape w/violin! Chris Iverson Ruminations 2:45 guitarscapes--Andy Summers-ish Dan Bornstein Ethereal Nature 1:18 title says it all Untitled 2:26 reminiscent of W. Carlos Noises from Nowhere 4:00 you'll see Jari Riitala Imperventus 2:49 hey, is that a real piano? Acid Rain Expected 4:03 a little touch of fusion jazz Chris Iverson Waditis 4:45 another touch of fusion SIDE TWO Nick Rothwell Sudstern 8:18 you'll see John McIntyre Meditations of the Monk 13:00 (may be edited a tad) David Mantripp Hemlock 3:18 a bit hymnal, good perc. William T Angel Raga Desh 15:00 an ibm improvises on Indian ragas (may also get a bit edited...) if there turns out to be room, I may put my piece on, but if not, I'll leave it out. To get your copy of the tape, you emusic-l subscribers, send a 90minute cassette tape to me, with a SASE (that includes postage) at Cecilia Tan 438 Wickenden St. #3 Providence, RI 02903-4428 USA I'm leaving today for a few days at the New Jersey shore, but I'll be back next week, and so the tape might be in the mail by two weeks from today. It's been fun! -ctan ------------------------------ = Date: Sat, 12 Aug 89 21:25:01 EDT From: Tony Pagliaro Subject: Kurzweil PX Plus patches and ESQ-1 librarian Hi guys. Anyone out there that could recommend a librarian that will store all my patches/ sequences for my MIDI gear. I'm looking for just a program that can simply store the data in files on a 3.5 disk. Currently my rig consists of a Kawai R-50 drum machine, Kurzweil PX Plus, Roland D-110 and my old and trusty Ensoniq ESQ-1, which still continues to impress me. Also, I'm looking for some patches for my Kurzweil PX Plus. I've managed to do some programming with it, but I don't have enough time to to really get into the system. I think the unit has a lot of potential. Bye-the-bye, Ensoniq is beginning to sponsor some synth clinics to show off their new products. I was fortunate enough to attend one of these in North Carolina. Ensoniq's new synth, the VFX is a worthy axe. It's an excellent MIDI controller (you can divide the keyboard into 12 separate control regions/zones) and it's onboard sequencer performs many of the same functions that a lot of PC sequence software does. As for the instrument's sounds, they are great, especially since the units effects can be controlled in a real time mode from the modulation wheels. A new toy to look at when you go to the music store! ------------------------------ = Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 00:40:00 EDT From: UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS Subject: MIDI 1.0 Spec. How can I obtain the MIDI specifications ? Diogenes C. S. Jr. Federal University of Minas Gerais DCC - ICEx - UFMG Computer Science Dept. UFMG@BRFAPESP.bitnet Brasil ------------------------------- = Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 09:38:51 EDT From: Jeffrey R Kell Subject: Help for DSS-1 I guess we all pull a stupid one once in awhile, and I certainly did; I have a bad track on a factory sound disk and didn't make a backup. If anyone out there has a Korg DSS-1 I would appreciate it if you could get the program parameters (my samples are intact) for the Clav patches that are on System-B of the factory Piano/Clav disk. (I'd settle for just Clav-3 if you're in a hurry). My efforts to recreate them have been less than satisfying (lots of unusual KB articulation parameters). Thanks in advance... ****************************** * The amount of sleep needed by the average person * is ten minutes more. ****************************** ------------------------------ = Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 13:21:00 EST From: METLAY@PITTVMS Subject: The VFX has a sequencer?! See above... Every review I've read so far says otherwise. ga ghee gah, metlay ------------------------------ = Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 11:57:09 PDT From: "robert s. richardson" Subject: Re: The VFX has a sequencer?! Yes, the VFX-SD has a disk drive and a sequencer. Its true. They have one down at SouthBound Sound in Roseburg, OR. (I think the guy on the phone said it was in stock, I'd call first before driving down there.) Features (off the top of my head): 24tracks, 70,000 notes, editing, 60 sequences, 20 songs. If its like the EPS, then it has an extensive list of features and disk storage functions. List price: about $2500. = End of EMUSIC-L Digest **********************