EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 33, Number 2 This issue's topics: additive synthesis MIDI spec (5 messages) Re: SY55 and 77 (2 messages) Re: searching OMR program (2 messages) Yamaha Address (2 messages) Re: Delays... (2 messages) Four track (2 messages) ART X-15 Announcing MFT/TMF Ondes Martinot (2 messages) Ballade software Digitizers (2 messages) Emusic Talk MIDI Pedal Keyboard 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, 7 Oct 1991 18:29:33 BST From: "R.A.Wilkinson" Subject: additive synthesis I'd be interested to hear from anyone working on hardware archetectures for music production by the method of additive synthesis. I've been implementing an additive synthesis algorithm in transputer networks (code written in OCCAM 2) and DSP's (coded in DSP56001 assembler). I've also looked at discrete and VLSI implementations of dedicated pipelines. Anyone working on similar, or with knowledge of these matters please email me at :- +--------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Bob Wilkinson | e-mail: R.A.Wilkinson@uk.ac.brad.comp | | Research | phone: uk + (0)274 733466 ext 3927 | | MMRU 1.13 Phoenix Building | fax: uk + (0)274 383920 | | +------------------------------------------+ | Dept of Computing, University of Bradford | | Bradford, W.Yorkshire BD7 1DP U.K. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1991 08:36:53 EDT From: ronin Subject: midi spec the midi specification is available as text from the EMUSIC archive, along with several other documents. it is available via GET MIDISPEC PACKAGE from LISTSERV at AUVM. by the way, oldtimers... do you think it's time to update that thing, while we're in the process of building the FAQ files? surely, the primer could be rewritten, and some things added regarding sampled ump standard, etc. -------------< Extremism in the Pursuit of Good Noise is no Vice >------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. Washington, D.C ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1991 09:35:02 EDT From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Re: midi spec > by the way, oldtimers... do you think it's time to update that thing, > while we're in the process of building the FAQ files? surely, the > primer could be rewritten, and some things added regarding sample dump > standard, etc. > Yes, you're probably right. Does anyone have a newer version of the spec than 0.6 (throwing it open to the list)? Does anyone have the sample dump standard specs? Are there any other items youd like to see (like a directory of ftp sites for patches)? --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1991 09:49:50 EDT From: Brian Adamson Subject: Re: midi spec I've got the following MIDI docs if they need to be submitted: MIDI File Format version 0.6 MIDI Specification 1.0 MIDI Sample Dump Standard (version unknown) Brian A. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1991 10:56:26 EDT From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Re: midi spec availability These are available from the LISTSERV which hosts this discussion. Simply send mail with the following command in it to LISTSERV@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU: GET MIDISPEC PACKAGE LISTSERV will mail it right back to you. --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1991 20:48:05 EDT From: Marshall Gilula Subject: Re: midi spec I would love to see a directory of ftp sites as well as someone knowledgeable saying what we have available now and where it is located. -73- Marshall Gilula ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1991 01:19:32 MDT From: Adam Schabtach Subject: Re: SY55 and 77 > We have decided to go with the > new Korg 01/WFD, that has WaveStation features plus 200 samples and 400 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It does? My impression, after playing with one for a bit, was that the 01/W and the WS were totally different machines. What features do they have in common, other than 60-note keyboards and spiffy black cases? --Adam ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1991 10:21:26 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: SY55 and 77 >Korg 01/WFD, that has WaveStation features Not to my knowledge. It doesn't have the wave or vector sequencing stuff. It does has waveshaping which perhaps means it merits the name "wavestation" more than the WS itself... Nick. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 15:22:38 GMT From: John Benfield Subject: Re: searching OMR program In article <9109301519.AA17221@sitter>, roth@IPS.ID.ETHZ.CH writes: > i E-Musicians, > > I'm searching for a working "OMR"-program (any: Atari, Mac, PC, Unix...). > OMR means "Optical Music Recognition" and is about the same as "OCR" > (Opt. Character Recogn.): with a scanner, you read in a sheet of printed > music, and the computer (i.e. the OMR software) is supposed to generate > a MIDI-File (or any other usable symbolic representation) out of the black- > and-white-pixels. > > In Germany, there is one such software product aviable (from "Print Technik"), > but this is not of any use for a musician, it just shows the problems of > recocnition software: More than 50% of the notes on a well-printed (not hand- > written) sheet are not recognized; because there is no user-interaction in > the recognition process, there's no big change to get better results with > this program. > > I now wonder if such a program (but a WORKING one!) is aviable (USA? UK?). > Has anybody heard of something like this? I seem to recall that some people at Kurzweil were working on something like this for commercial distribution. Try calling them directly (the dealers never seem to have a clue about what's going on). If they don't have something, I'm sure they can point you in the right direction. ______Opinions stated are my own. Transcripts available by request______ === =--==== AT&T Canada Inc. John Benfield =----==== 3650 Victoria Park Ave. Network Support Analyst (MIS) =----==== Suite 800 ==--===== Willowdale, Ontario attmail : ~jbenfield ======= M2H-3P7 email : uunet!attcan!john === (416) 756-5221 Compu$erve: 72137,722 ____Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines._____ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1991 08:36:35 EDT From: Robert Craig Subject: Re: searching OMR program A doctoral candidate at the McGill Faculty of Music has been working on this problem for some time. There will be demos given at the upcoming International Computer Music Conference at McGill. Try sending mail to ich@music.mcgill.ca for more info on OMR. The conference info can be had from brp@music.mcgill.ca or icmc@co.lan.mcgill.ca. Robert Craig E-mail: robert@vm1.mcgill.ca Senior Network Analyst McGill University Computing Centre Tel: (514) 398-3710 805 Sherbrooke St. W. FAX: (514) 398-6876 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6 CORISQ: (514) 398-RISQ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1991 08:17:00 EDT From: MICHAET@CLEMSON.BITNET Subject: Yamaha Address I have a Yamaha PSS-270 (toy) keyboard with a broken E key. Is there an address that I can write to to try to get a new one? I think I remember hearing the phrase "Yamaha corporation of America" somewhere. Thanks, Michael michaet@clemson.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1991 23:12:35 EDT From: Marshall Gilula Subject: Re: Yamaha Address Call 1-800-443-3548 de nada Marshall Gilula ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 11:50:39 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: A D-70. Yeah. Or a WS. Hmm. Maybe a D-70... >For faster response to >questions, subscribe to EMUSIC-L@AUVM.BITNET (or emusic-l@auvm.american.edu). Sorry Joe, but I find this rather amusing, as we're now reading digests from, what, April? "For a response *this year* to your question, subscribe to..." Nothing personal... >Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 13:55:40 BST >From: Nick Rothwell >Subject: A D-70. Yeah. Or a WS. Hmm. Maybe a D-70... It is, however, interesting to see how my thoughts have changed over six months, or rather, how some of them haven't. In April I had the VFX and was thinking of trading the pf85 and D-50 for a D-70 or maybe a WS. In May I ditched the unreliable VFX and replaced it with a WS. And here I am now thinking of, yes, trading the pf85 and D-50 for a D-70 for exactly the same reasons as before. Hmm, must the the right decision then. The pf85 and D-50 have depreciated right through the floor, but there's a cheap year-old D-70 in a second-hand store here which I might be able to get as a straight swap. I'll let you know how I get on. My concerns are with the D-70 as a flexible synth, and with it's MIDI responsiveness. It looks like a flexible machine (and seems to have the best MIDI controller specs of any Roland box I've seen, perhaps any box period) but the user interface stinks, at least from what I can tell from a borrowed manual (several hundred pages, and that stinks too). So, I can answer all my own technical queries now - thanks. Nick. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 09:29:13 EDT From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Re: Delays... > > >For faster response to > >questions, subscribe to EMUSIC-L@AUVM.BITNET (or emusic-l@auvm.american.edu). > > Sorry Joe, but I find this rather amusing, as we're now reading digests > from, what, April? "For a response *this year* to your question, subscribe > to..." > > Nothing personal... I know, it's just this annoying work stuff that I do so I can keep running the lists. :-) I hope that the EMUSIC-D folks don't OD on all of this info I'm (FINALLY!) sending out. Maybe it should read "For any response at all..."? --- Joe M. (finally Unix-semi-literate) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1991 10:17:55 EDT From: Eric Haarbauer <$U01928%UABDPO.bitnet@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU> Subject: Four track >From Eric Haarbauer <$u01928@uabdpo> on EMUSIC-D: So what's a good four track recorder in the (well) under $1000 range? I need high speed tape and NR better than Dolby B. The top on my list now is the Yamaha MT-100II, but I hear an MT-120 is being released. Any news? -eh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1991 11:00:53 EDT From: mgilula@miasun.med.miami.edu (Marshall Gilula) Subject: Re: Four track Re the request for cheap multi-track: some people are selling the 8track cassette by TASCAM that has MIDI implementation used for $1000 I heard. Check it out. -73- Marshall Gilula ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1991 13:52:41 TZONE From: Russ Gelinas Subject: ART X-15 I've got the use of an ART X-15 Ultrafoot midi foot controller for a few weeks or months, and I could probably buy it too. I won't ask what it's worth, but I will ask if anyone has one or has used one. I plan on using it to control a Quadraverb+, and then maybe a drum machine if I can figure out a way to do it. Any tricks, warnings, etc. would be much appreciated. Thanks. Russ Gelinas r_gelinas%unhh.unh.edu@mitvma.mit.edu OPAL/ESP SERB UNH (insert acronym here) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1991 21:52:15 GMT From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Announcing MFT/TMF Two programs to manipulate standard midifiles. mft is a program that reads a standard midifile (format 0 or 1) and writes an ASCII representation of it that is both compact and easily parsable. tmf is the companion program that reparses the text representation into a midifile. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This is an alpha release, which means that it is not thoroughly tested. Please test it and report any problems, suggestion for improvement, or actual improvements to: Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 2508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands email: piet@cs.ruu.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You can do with this program what you like, but if you think it is useful I would appreciate if you send me some of your midifiles. Not ones that I can find on the Internet. Please send them uu- or btoa-encoded. Zoo and Arc archives (encoded) are also OK, Zip and Lharc may be problematic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The text representation is chosen such that it is easily recognized and manipulated by programs like sed, awk or perl. Yet it is also humanly readable so that it can be manipulated with an ordianary text editor. In this way you can make changes to your midifiles using these powerful programs or even in Cobol :=). Or you can write algorithmic compositions using a familiar programming language. How to get mft.zoo from the archive at Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University: NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu. Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET usually works. by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between about 20.00 and 0900 UTC). ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] user name: anonymous or ftp password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu) Don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive, compressed or in any other way contains binary data. get MIDI/PROGRAMS/mft.zoo by mail-server: send the following message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server): begin path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS) send MIDI/PROGRAMS/mft.zoo end NOTE: *** PLEASE USE VALID INTERNET ADDRESSES IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT USE ADDRESSES WITH ! and @ MIXED !!!! BITNETTERS USE USER@HOST.BITNET *** The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you first issue the request: send HELP -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete') ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1991 14:11:36 EDT From: 051796@UOTTAWA.BITNET Subject: Ondes Martinot Is heard in a rather well known place: The score by Jarre's dad for lawrence of Arabia. Pay attention to the "Anvil" scenes. Lorne Hammond ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1991 03:00:26 MET From: Adam MIROWSKI Subject: Ondes Martinot > Re: Ondes Martinot > Little correction for those who care: I think the correct spelling is "Ondes Martenot". ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1991 17:50:24 EST From: "A. Ralph Papakhian" Subject: Ballade software Hi. I'm trying to learn Dynaware's Ballade software to be used with the Roland LAPC-I LA Sound Card. Is it possible to use Ballade to print on a Panasonic KX P1180 dot matrix printer? If so, how? Ballade is a bit klunky. Any other recommendations for software to use with that Roland card? Cordially, A. Ralph Papakhian, Music Library (Co-Listowner for MLA-L@IUBVM) Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-2970 papakhi@iubvm.bitnet papakhi@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1991 17:17:01 EST From: CABR000 Subject: Digitizers I was wondering if anyone could give me some help. I have built a mono audio digitizer for my friend's Amiga 500. It works well, but I am interested in making it stereo. I would also like to write a simple program to use this digitizer. Would anyone happen to know either what format stereo input should be in for input from the parallel port or how I can, using C or Pascal, take input from the parallel port and send it out through the Amiga's D/A converter. Any and all help or good book references will be greatly appreciated!! Brian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1991 22:48:50 -0400 From: Jarrod Norton Subject: Re: Digitizers Brian, Dunno, but you can make me one too when you figure it out :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jarrod Norton, Production Director, WCLH-FM | "Freedom is the freedom to 717/825-7663 717/824-4651 ext 2907 | say 2+2=4. If that is jnorton@wilkes1.wilkes.edu | granted, all else follows." R'don@PernMUSH Thymas@Rhostshyl | --Winston Smith, 1984 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- also a happy A-500 owner ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1991 14:35:00 EDT From: MICHAET@CLEMSON.BITNET Subject: Emusic Talk I have to present a short (8 min.) talk in my undergraduate electronics class about anything relating to electronics. I decided to talk about emusic, of course, and more specifically our hardware. I was thinking about an "evolutionary" approach: this is how analog machines worked, then FM, then PCM and samplers, and finally a little about MIDI. I would love to have any advice and suggestions from the experts. (How can I cram all of this into 8 minutes?) Michael Townsend MICHAET@CLEMSON.Bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1991 16:47:56 CDT From: Greg Johnson Subject: MIDI Pedal Keyboard Where could I find a MIDI pedal keyboard? That is, I'm looking for a regular organ pedal manual with MIDI out. Roland has a 1-octave pedalboard for $500. But I'd really like something with 2 octaves and the standard concave "American Organist Guild" dimensions. Failing to find such a device ready-made, where might I obtain electronics to build such a MIDI controller? A third source for a pedalboard might be a MIDI retrofitter. Any recommendations? I thank you from the bottom of my feet... : Greg Johnson, Senior Scientific Programmer/Analyst -- Computing Services : : 233 Heinkel Building, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203 : : CCGREG@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU / CCGREG@UMCVMB.BITNET / phone 314-882-2000 : ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************