EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 37, Issue 10 This issue's topics: beginner questions (3 messages) fractal music info request (fwd) (2 messages) SMF spec 2 Standard-MIDI-File Synthesis Journal (2 messages) TurboSynth (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: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 20:32:55 EST From: "Nathan madutujuh" Subject: beginner questions Hi, I am interested in electronic music using IBM PC. I have a 386 machine. I have several questions, please answer if you can. 1. Is there any public domain ftp address for music software, eq. sequen cer, notation, etc ? 2. Where can I have a circuit diagram of a Midi card ? 3. Can I get MIDI specs/docs through internet ? 4. What method is the cheaper one, Harddisk recording, or multi-track ? 5. How much is the cost of four track machine ? (new or used) Thank you very much. Nathan Madutujuh (NATHAN@VTVM1.BITNET) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 10:09:08 EST From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Re: beginner questions Hi, Nathan. There are a number of FTP sites around the net that feature electronic-music-related items. The two that I can name offhand are louie.udel.edu and ucsd.edu. There is a complete description of the MIDI spec available from the LISTSERV at AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU; I don't think you'll be needing that unless you plan to write your own MIDI processing software. As far as MIDI interfaces for the IBM PC, unless you are quite good at this kind of thing, I'd recommend that you purchase a board rather than build one. I don't know of anywhere that you can get a good schematic for a MIDI board. I will recommend that you *not* fall for the claim that the SoundBlaster is a MIDI interface. It does not provide two-way communication; you cannot record and play at the same time. Hard disk systems are still more expensive than multi-track tape. We usually refrain from discussing price/performance comparisons here; SYNTH-L (also based out of AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU) is a better source for such information. --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 17:09:47 +0100 From: Adam Mirowski Subject: Re: beginner questions Joe M. writes: >I will recommend that you *not* fall for the claim that the SoundBlaster is >a MIDI interface. It does not provide two-way communication; you cannot >record and play at the same time. Well, this information may be of little interest to emusic-l users, but starting with version 2.0, Sound Blaster does support bidirectional MIDI exchanges. It is even explicitely put on the box. Sound Blaster Pro support them too. But none intends to be MPU-401 compatible. Other newer sound boards feature MPU compatibility, though. -Adam ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 13:20:20 EST From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Re: fractal music info request (fwd) Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 12:53:58 PST > From: jberger%alice.music.yale.edu@auvm.american.edu (jonathan berger) > Subject: Re: fractal music info request > > igor popovich a grad student at CSMT has a number of fractal composition > environments including a beautiful and simple MIDI/Object Pascal fractal > music generator (popigoa@yalevm.yale.edu or jberger@alice.music.yale.edu for > more info). also the NeXT comes with a demo program by mike mc nabb called > Ensemble which has an elegant and fun fractal generator with real time > interface. among the tons of fractal music around i recently heard one - > charles dodge's viola elegy which is beautiful. > > -jberger ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1992 18:48:37 LCL From: EACZ02PP@GRTHEUN1.BITNET Subject: Re: fractal music info request (fwd) > > > Forwarded message: > > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 12:53:58 PST > > From: jberger%alice.music.yale.edu@auvm.american.edu (jonathan berger) > > Subject: Re: fractal music info request > > > > igor popovich a grad student at CSMT has a number of fractal composition > > environments including a beautiful and simple MIDI/Object Pascal fractal > > music generator (popigoa@yalevm.yale.edu or jberger@alice.music.yale.edu for > > more info). also the NeXT comes with a demo program by mike mc nabb called > > Ensemble which has an elegant and fun fractal generator with real time > > interface. among the tons of fractal music around i recently heard one - > > charles dodge's viola elegy which is beautiful. > > Fractal music ? What is this ? A little more of this fractal stuff and we 'll hear about fractal surfing! :-) Anyway, I am really interested in this subject, so if anyone knows, I would be grateful If he could let me know... Kwstas ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 20:25:29 GMT From: Josef Heck Subject: SMF spec 2 Who knows about the Standard MIDI File specifications? Is there an SMF specification 2? 0 and 1 are known. If there is an SMF 2: where can I get it? Volkmar Zitz Schmeddingstr. 93 4400 Muenster Germany heck@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 16:08:43 GMT From: Josef Heck Subject: Standard-MIDI-File Standard-MIDI-File Is anybody out there, who knows about the secret MIDI-File-Format 2? I heard that only this format allows to save several tracks as well with meter and speed changes. I am developing a sort of language to describe a (traditional) composition (somehow like TeX) and want to generate several kinds of output (i.e. the TeX-inputfile to generate scores, MIDI-Files to make the music available to common sequencer programs a.o.). If anybody is interested in such things or knows about programs that follow the same intention, she may contact me under the above id. Volkmar Zitz IBT 2 Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA) Postfach 1913 5170 Juelich Germany or Volkmar Zitz Schmeddingstr.93 4400 Muenster Germany ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 09:39:11 EST From: Jon Crystal Subject: Synthesis Journal Has anyone read a periodical called "Synthesis"? Is it worth subscribing to? Could you post subscription information please. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 12:33:59 EST From: The Radio Gnome Subject: Re: Synthesis Journal Hi, Synthesis is a small EM newsletter produced here in Philadelphia by Jason Marscewicz(sp?). It features reviews, interviews and a small classified section. It's sort of like 'Dreams Word' but smaller. I don't have the address handy, but can get it if you want. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 14:53:57 EST From: Jon Crystal Subject: TurboSynth No, not the diesel kind. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who is using TurboSynth to either create waveforms to dump to a sample playback unit, or to alter sampled sounds. Seems very powerful on the surface - I wonder what the sh ortcomings may be. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 21:04:33 EST From: Brian Adamson Subject: Re: TurboSynth > > No, not the diesel kind. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who is using > TurboSynth to either create waveforms to dump to a sample playback unit, or to I have played around with Turbo Synth with Sound Tools and have managed to create some pretty interesting sounds, particularly ones with complex pitch variation (each harmonic in the waveform gets different pitch and amplitude envelopes). It's easy to create multi-samples, you just type in a different fundamental pitch. You can save the files in a format Sound Designer uses for further manipulation and/or transfer them direct to your sampler, "digi-clean". -- Brian Adamson NRL Code 5523 adamson@itd.nrl.navy.mil ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************