EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 41, Issue 09 This issue's topics: Please help an enthusiastic music tech wanna-be! (4 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: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 06:18:07 GMT From: Thunder-Thumbs Subject: Please help an enthusiastic music tech wanna-be! Hello Everyone. I need help! I just bought a roland scc-1 and will be getting a gravis ultrasound also. There are all these sounds available for the roland and I don't know how to take advantage of them though. Every program I run only uses the 128 sound midi library, but the card has 317 sounds. How do I use them? For the sake of organization, here is what I have: IBM 486/33, 4 Megs of Ram Roland SCC-1 Soundcard a 4-track with mikes (for use later on I guess) Finale I do NOT have sequencing software or a keyboard as of yet. Will these things be able to take advantage of all the sounds when I get them? I also have a couple C-compilers and I want to learn how to write programs that will pull sounds directly from the soundcards - so I can write programs that will randomly generate music and interact off of itself and all that good stuff. Can someone point me in a direction for that? How can I write programs that will interact with my soundcard? Literature in the form of textbooks or ftp stuff would be great. Any reccomendations at all would be great. :) You know how it is - I spent $380 on this great card and I don't want to be stuck only using half the sounds (or playing ultima). Thanks for any help you can give me. Please post or email as I will be following the groups religiously from now on. Curt Siffert -- * Thunder-Thumbs * 'In the heart of the rain forest, it * * Curt Siffert * was doing what it usually does in * * siffert@horton.colorado.EDU * rain forests; which is rain; hence * * Paper-Mache Cows Forever! * the name.' - Douglas Adams * ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 08:20:03 CDT From: Phantom Tryke <"guinan::kummer"@KIRK.MSOE.EDU> Subject: Re: Please help an enthusiastic music tech wanna-be! >Is this Finale for the IBM-PC (i.e. the software)? I though it >was only available for the Mac. Yes, Finale (music notation software) is available for the PC under Windows. I haven't worked with the PC version, but I did have occasion to work with the Mac version about 4-5 years ago. It has some very nice features. One in particular that I recall is its ability to allow design/redesign of any and all of the music characters that are printed (notes, rests, etc.) in addition to begin able to create totally new symbols (in case you want to write an arrangement of something by Karlheinz Stockhasen). I think it goes for a couple hundred bucks. Make sure you have plenty of RAM though! Phantom Tryke. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 04:06:23 GMT From: Thomas Marvan Subject: Re: Please help an enthusiastic music tech wanna-be! In article <1992Jun24.061807.14352@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> siffert@horton.Colorado.EDU (Thunder-Thumbs) writes: > >For the sake of organization, here is what I have: > >IBM 486/33, 4 Megs of Ram >Roland SCC-1 Soundcard >a 4-track with mikes (for use later on I guess) >Finale ^^^^ Is this Finale for the IBM-PC (i.e. the software)? I though it was only available for the Mac. Or am I wrong....? Tom Marvan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 05:43:47 GMT From: Martin Liebl Subject: Re: Please help an enthusiastic music tech wanna-be! In article <35020@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan) writes: |> >Finale |> ^^^^ Is this Finale for the IBM-PC (i.e. the software)? I though it |> was only available for the Mac. |> |> |> |> Or am I wrong....? |> I don't know about the preceding article, but Finale IS available for MS Windows (not a very good porting of the mac version, but it works if you don't mind slow speed) Martin &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& &&&&& Martin J. Liebl &&&&& &&&&& Hartstr.17, D-8057 Eching, Germany &&&&& &&&&& Email: lieblm@sunbode12.informatik.tu-muenchen.de &&&&& &&&&& Project: Practical Experiments On Murphy's Law ... &&&&& &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************