EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 30, Number 4 This issue's topics: Re: 'hystereses' and arp again Re: Delay vs BPM Sun Ra information needed.... Mag Filings Update music software availability MIDI specifications Mac Tablature Software? Looking for Triangle Audio Re: Misc comments BOSS SE-50 Moog Liberation interfacing MIDI Hardware info request Musician's Survival Store 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: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 08:31:00 EDT From: "William R(ay) Brohinsky" Subject: Re: 'hystereses' and arp again EEEEEEEEEK! my hands are rebelling! I meant to say that the hebrew for students(masc) is studentim, like the plural for cherub is cherubim. Studentot (the o is kinda like the english long o) is fem. pl. Some days, I wonder why I open my mouth(fingers). raybro *** Nieder mit den tueten! Freiheit Fuer Gummibaerchen! *** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 10:28:54 EDT From: Brian Adamson Subject: Re: Delay vs BPM Try using a spreadsheet (such as Excel) to generate your chart using the formula provided. Just generate a series for the range of beats per minute you are interested in one column and let the spreadsheet calculate milliseconds into an adjacent column. Then "PRINT". Brian Adamson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1991 21:07:00 CDT From: TBUCK@KNOX.BITNET Subject: Sun Ra information needed.... Greetings, I am gathering information for an undergraduate honors research project concerning the free-form jazz musician, Sun Ra. I believe that Sun Ra has been a significant figure in the jazz world and I hope to develop a better understanding of both his music and philosophy. I plan to write a biographical history with a list of known recordings including a discussion of their merits and availability. This project is in its preliminary research stages and I have only been able to find a small handful of books with any significant information about Sun Ra. I've also found references to a couple hundred magazine articles. Unfortunately most are likely to be record reviews. (I'll soon be trying to order them through the interlibrary loan system) If you have *any* of the following kinds of information, please don't hesitate to drop me a note, either by direct electronic mail or through the postal system. If you could also pass this note on to anyone who might be able to help me in my quest, I would greatly appreciate it. Here is how you can help. I'm looking for.... 1) Any recordings, especially those on Ra's own private record label, Saturn Records. I am interested in either cassette tape duplicates of Sun Ra recordings you might own, or purchasing any recordings you might be willing to part with. I already own the following on CD or LP: Blue Delight, 1989 Cosmic Equation Dancing Shadows, 1966 Live At Montreux, 1976 Live At The Pit-Inn, Tokyo, 1988 Out There A Minute, late 1960's Reflections In Blue, 1986 Purple Night, 1990 The Solar Myth Approach, 1971 Sun Song, 1957 Visions (Walt Dickerson with Sun Ra), 1978 We Are In The Future, 1961 I have cassette duplicates of the following LP's, but would like to purchase original copies if possible. I also need information off album jackets such as liner notes, song titles, recording dates, or musician lineups, as well as record catalog numbers and the addresses of any record companies for which Sun Ra has recorded. Astro Black God Is More Than Love The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, vol. 2 It's After The End Of The World Lanquidity, 1978 The Magic City Media Dreams Omniverse On Jupiter Pictures Of Infinity Sleeping Beauty Solo Piano, vol. 1 2) Books or magazine articles about Sun Ra, any books with significant information about him, or interviews with him. 3) Books or other sources containing *any* of Sun Ra's poetry. 4) Any other information I might find useful such as sources for first person interviews, contacts that would have more information, or people that would have more contacts. Anything that you think might lead to something useful. 5) Any information about grants for this type of research. I hope to do field research in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York--the three cities in which Sun Ra has been based during his career. 6) Personal recollections of Sun Ra concerts. If you've seen him and his Arkestra perform live, I want to hear from you! Adva(thanx)nce. Happy Trails and Later Days.... Thomas J. Buck Tom Box 306 - Knox College "Sound Can Move Planets" Galesburg, Illinois 61401 - Sun Ra - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1991 01:38:03 GMT From: Cecilia M Tan Subject: Mag Filings Update [Magnetic Filings II is no longer available. Next year I will post a "real-time" announcement to ensure that those who want a copy will be able to order one. - JM] By the way, I have pretty much decided on buying the Alesis SR-16 drum machine based on the rave recommendations from you emusic-lers. The problem? No one can seem to keep it in stock! One store here has 48 on order, another has 27 ordered and several even pre-paid already. Is Alesis just unable to manufacture the things fast enough or what? But about the tape. OK, July 19 was a little ambitious for a release date. That is the day the band I manage is playing their last gig in Boston before they set out on their US Tour (a couple of midwest cities, then 5 dates in Los Angeles...) and I'll be tied up with them all day. However, there shouldn't be a problem getting it out the following week. Orders have been received since my last update from: Douglas Kopp Simon LEa Mark G. Adam Mirowski Simon Weatherill Karl Wurst Andrew Moore John Eichenseer Keep those orders coming in. If I sell out of the first duping, I'll just start duping them individually. (We're not near sell out yet) -ctan -- i was going to write a bit of original song lyric to put here but i felt like cats were running through my eyes, hissing so I settled for stream of consciousness instead -ctan **----------------------> ctan@world.std.com <---------------------** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 16:41:00 EST From: NOTHING TO DO Subject: music software availability I need some information concerning public domain software...where do I search for sequence and editor programs? Nodes, etc.? Thanks in advance Scott Keely University of Cincinnati ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 09:09:00 U From: GNELSON@TWNCTU01.BITNET Subject: MIDI specifications Does anyone have copies of the MIDI data format and MIDI file specifications in machine readable form? Please contact me directly before you send them in case evryone but me has a copy. Gary Nelson Computer Music Studio National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu, Taiwan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 15:03:06 EST From: autosend Dave Whitman Subject: Mac Tablature Software? I'm an amateur musician, with emphasis on the "amateur". I play guitar and 5 string banjo, mainly by ear, and I don't read standard music notation. I do read and use guitar and banjo folk tab notation, though. Is there any commercial/shareware/pd Mac software available for writing guitar and/or banjo tab? I see tons of software for standard music notation, another ton of software for sequencing MIDI stuff, but haven't seen any tab software. Ideally what I'd like is an environment which let me write my own tab documents, but also some sort of interface which let me enter standard music notation and then convert into tab for an arbitrarily tuned string instrument with an arbitrary number of strings. I would (obviously) prefer to buy or (if pd) copy such software, but if none exists, I would consider writing and releasing an application. I'm unable to follow this newsgroup regularly, so email responses would be appreciated. ********************************************************* Dave Whitman * "The trick is to die young as late rsndww@rohvm1.bitnet * as possible." - Ashley Montague ********************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 10:28:34 EDT From: prindle@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL Subject: Looking for Triangle Audio Does anyone know the whereabouts or status of Triangle Audio, formerly of Sterling, VA. (they sold various MIDI software products)? Both their phone number and PO Box are no longer valid. Thanks in advance, Frank Prindle Prindle@NADC.navy.mil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 14:52:43 EDT From: mmt@DRETOR.DCIEM.DND.CA Subject: Re: Misc comments this arrived in another group that is subscribe to, and i just had to send it along... can you see an infinite number of chimps with joysticks and vocoders? --------------------------< Eschew Obfuscation >------------------------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) The American University Physics Dept. Washington, D.C ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Bill Powers 910711-0800: > It seems to me that speech synthesizers are good enough now >that we could revive the old "vocoder." If four formants are enough to >make recognizeable phomenemes, could we use two two-dimensional joysticks >or mouses to allow *manual* control of formants? Could we program in >constraints that imitate the physical constraints on passing from one >phomene to another using mouth movements (i.e., let the joysticks control >as if at one level above mouth movements)? Could a human being learn to >produce recognizeable speech in this way (minus, of course, the usual >kinesthetic/tactile feedback, but adding a different sort)? If the answer >to all that were "yes", then the next question is whether chimps could >learn to use the same manual means of producing speech. This would remove >the mouth-structure problem, and lead to the next problem, which is >whether they could learn to control/perceive spoken language at the >lowest levels. And then higher levels ... There is a project of this type (with humans, not chimps) at the University of Toronto. Sid Fels, of Geoff Hinton's group is studying the use of neurlan networks to recognize hand gestures in the control of a formant synthesizer. He has been doing it at the word level, using a language something like ASL (American Sign Language) modified to allow for parameters the Data Glove cannot transmit (I think finger spread is not detected). Now he is wondering, like Bill, whether humans can learn to control with their hands the formants they so easily control with their mouths. To get first-hand information about this, Sid Fels' e-mail address is ssfels@ai.toronto.edu I hope he won't mind me giving this overbrief summary of what he is doing, and I hope it isn't too misleading. Martin Taylor ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 21:42:43 LCL From: Norwich.School@MAC.DARTMOUTH.EDU Subject: BOSS SE-50 Would love to hear from any users of the BOSS SE-50 multi-effects unit. I just got one and am using it with my Strat. Advice...good settings.....articles..etc. I replaced an antiquated home made pedal board mounted on a piece of plywood. Phew! Cam Cross ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1991 08:07:54 ADT From: Alan Edwards Subject: Moog Liberation interfacing > >From: "D. Yuen" >...stuff deleted... > kind of adapter will be needed. The Taurus has a control voltage > in jack, but it is labelled "Use stereo plug only". The back panel > has no explanation as to why only a stereo plug is to be used. I do > not have a manual for the Taurus, perhaps the answer is there. The > Liberation CV out jack is not labelled "use stereo plug only". So, > can the (presumably) mono output of the Liberation appease the stereo > input of the Taurus? I do not know. Yet. No promises as to when > > John McIntyre I finally got around to looking in the Taurus manual, and there is no mention of a "stereo plug" in the back, and there is no sign of one on the instrument, only a large plastic plug, about two inches in diameter, that is obviously for a different connector. I have the schematics, and have thought about interfacing it somehow, but a few years back, Electronic Musician did an article on interfacing your dinosaurs, and they mentioned that there was a problem with the old Taurus. My thought was to use relays to short out the pedal contacts controlled with NoteOn and NoteOff commands. Much easier than worrying about triggers and control voltages. Alan Edwards ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1991 16:00:00 -0500 From: Randy Jones Subject: MIDI Hardware info request I'm trying to do some very-low-budget experimenting with alternate controllers for MIDI, and am having trouble finding information on building MIDI hardware. My goal is to make an instrument which allows for simultaneous pitch control of 4 or more continuous "drone" tones. Analog sensor data will be converted into MIDI pitch bend or note information on multiple channels. I will start out with levers and pots, but will try to hack in a Power Glove if all goes well. I have a cheap, solid computer dedicated to this project ( Apple /// ) which I certainly don't mind hacking onto or into. It has RS232 and parallel I/O, and several expansion slots to spare. If anyone can help me get from this to MIDI, I will be very happy. I can build hardware from specs fairly confidently, but lack the skills necessary to design the stuff. I recall hearing about an RS232->MIDI hack which produced out-of-spec pseudo-MIDI, but that might be just fine for my purposes. I expect my data throughput to be quite small. And here's another, more obscure question: has anyone tried to modify Yamaha FM hardware to allow for interactive timbral control? This would probably involve rewriting registers for feedback and operator amplitude on the fly. I realize that you can assign the mod wheel to affect feedback on the bigger beasts at least, but I'm talking about controlling several parameters simultaneously. This idea was sparked by a recent interview with Michael Waisvisz in the Computer Music Journal; he discussed a hypothetical "web" for timbral control and I realized that FM hardware is nicely suited to this idea. I have access to a DX100 which could be mine for real, real cheap. Thanks for your input -- I'll post details if I get something working. /////| Randall Jones ///||| UW Space Astronomy Laboratory /||||| rej@larry.sal.wisc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1991 21:44:00 EDT From: DJB85@ALBNYVMS.BITNET Subject: Musician's Survival Store I got a price list from a place called (I think) Musician's Survival Store, somewhere in NY state. I wanted to order something from it, and I have lost all of the information. Can any one give me full name of the place and the address? I think Musician's Survival Store was just a slogan. You might want to respond directly to me, and not clog up the list with irrelevancies. DON BYRD STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK--ALBANY DJB85@ALBNYVMS.BITNET Thanks in advance! ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************