EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 44, Issue 05 This issue's topics: Announcements --> Archive of Synth's technical data <-- Keynote now available under NeXTStep IRCAM position opening Lime V1.1a (notation software) now available 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, 23 Sep 1992 07:46:12 GMT From: "(Frank Breier)" Subject: --> Archive of Synth's technical data <-- Hi synthie-freaks, I want to build up an archive of many synthesizer's technical data. Now, it contains onlay a few synths, but in future this should grow. This archive is available via gopher. If you have a gopher client, it is no problem, you only have to type 'gopher balrog.dfv.rwth-aachen.de' and you will find the Archive under 'services'. If you do not have any client, you have the possibility to login into a public gopher client like 'gopher.micro.umn.edu' and look for German infosystems (ComNets Gopher). And now my problem: I do not have the time and not the info-material to put the data into it myself. And so I hope, you support this idea, 'cause you'll profit of it, and send me some technical descriptions (found in the appendix of your synth's manual) of your synths. Mail me these description (in a form of a table) to broe@dfv.rwth-aachen.edu If you have any questions, comments or problems, please let me know. Thanks is advance, Frank P.S: It could also be descriptions of samplers and Drum-modules. -- Frank Breier | C O M Communication Networks, Technical University of Aachen | --v-^-v-^-v-^-v-- Phone: +49-241-807921 Fax: +49-241-84964 | N E T S Email: broe@dfv.rwth-aachen.de | RWTH Aachen, Germany ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:38:22 EDT From: tjt@BLINK.ATT.COM Subject: Keynote now available under NeXTStep The Keynote language and graphical editor is now available for the NeXT. A brief summary of what it is: Keynote is an awk-like programming language and graphical editor for MIDI data, with both algorithmic and realtime applications. The graphical interface is based on only a few built-in functions - the entire user interface of a complete music editor (piano-roll style with pop-up menus) is written in Keynote itself, and is hence completely customizable and extensible by the user. Although it works best on UNIX systems (ideally 386-based) under the X Window System, Keynote is portable and runs on other machines. For more info, see COMPUTING SYSTEMS (Journal of the USENIX Association), Vol 3 No 2, Spring 1990. Send me your postal address and I'll send you hardcopy documentation. An inexpensive binary-only version is available (see below), and complete C source code (with a site license) is also available in the AT&T UNIX System Toolchest for around $250 ($150 for Toolchest registration and $100 for Keynote), call +1-908-522-6900 at 1200/2400 bps and login as "guest", or mail to tcadmin@pluto.att.com, or call +1-908-580-4124. A mailing list exists, with an archive server that provides music and code examples - send email to keynote-request@blink.att.com to get on it. I'm sending this note because I finally finished a NeXTStep port of Keynote. It doesn't look much like a typical NeXTStep application, because Keynote is portable to many different environments and works identically on all of them. However, it does run under NeXTStep, unlike a previous NeXT port of Keynote that only ran under X Windows. Keynote reads and writes MIDI only, it does not manipulate digital audio. An inexpensive binary-only version of Keynote for the NeXT is available from: Jon Backstrom Applied Digital Arts PO Box 375 Indianola, Iowa 50125 Phone: +1-515-961-4363 (Applied Digital Arts, call in the evenings) Email: viking@optimage.com Price: $49 + shipping ($3) If you order a copy from Jon, please send email to me (tjt@blink.att.com), so that I can make sure you get your copy (Jon is sometimes slow to respond), and so that I can add you to the mailing list. I'm now working on a multi-tasking and multi-window version of Keynote, which looks to be quite powerful. The two new features are *extremely* synergistic. My first attempt at multi-windowing (before multi-tasking was added) was completely discarded because it wasn't "right". With multi-tasking, each window is now controlled independently by a separate task (or usually, tasks), and I'm developing conventions for the messages that can be sent to the tasks - the result is fairly object-oriented. Keynote has no explicit object-oriented support, but fifos and associative arrays (which can contain arbitrary data, including function pointers and other arrays) provide a very flexible message-passing mechanism. If you get the source code for the existing version of Keynote, you can also get early copies of this new version. It will be some time before it has a complete user interface (which as always is completely implemented with user-extensible Keynote code), but the core multi-tasking and multi-window support is fully functional, and I'd be interested in feedback on the features and developing user interface. ...Tim Thompson...AT&T Bell Laboratories/Holmdel/NJ...tjt@blink.att.com... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 18:03:23 GMT From: "(System Support)" Subject: Paris (France), Unix/NeXT/Mac software customization/support, IRCAM IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization of musical creation, R&D and education in acoustics and music, located in the center of Paris (France), next to the Pompidou Center. It hosts composers, researchers and students from many countries cooperating in contemporary music production, signal processing, acoustics and psychoacoustics and their interrelations. Two positions are immediately available to staff the support activities of the R&D department. The candidates will perform debugging and QA, optimization and fine tuning, customization (including major rewriting) and packaging of prototypical in-house software and documentation for releases in house and to external clients; porting of such software to different graphical platforms (e.g., from/to NeXTStep, X11/Motif, Mac); upgrades, releases and distribution management; continued support of those packages in close contact with the developpers. This involves gaining an in-depth understanding of the software, its users and their needs. EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS o 3-5 years expertise in C programming on Unix platforms of medium to large programs of quality. o 3 years experience in developpement in computer graphics and GUIs (at least one, preferably two, of X11/Motif, NeXTStep and Macintosh). o High productivity, excellent programming style, stable and mature individual. o Proven ability to produce accurate, usable technical documentation. o Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a heterogeneous environment (musicians, researchers, programmers). ADDITIONAL HELPFUL EXPERIENCE o Experience in digital signal processing. o Experience in computer music, MIDI. o Additional programming experience with Macintosh, Mac Applications o Internet, TCP/IP, NFS site experience o Kernel and/or device driver programming o Solid experience in porting software to different systems and platforms, customization and packaging. SALARY AND BENEFITS The salary range is FFrs160,000-190,000/year approx. ($32,000-38,000). Benefits include 6 weeks paid vacation and employer's participation in medical insurance, meal plan and daily travel expenses; free entrance to most French national museums, many discounts on concerts and other shows. AVAILABILITY Positions are available immediately. ECC nationals/working EEC papers an asset. Please send resume and detailed work experience to any of the following addresses: email:support@ircam.fr FAX: +33 1 42 77 29 47 (attn: Michael Fingerhut) Mail: IRCAM, 31 rue Saint Merri, 75004 Paris, France (attn: Michael Fingerhut) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:59:20 EDT From: "(Joseph D. McMahon)" Subject: Version 1.1a of LIME (notation software) now available - comp.music #4604 cottle@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (David M. Cottle) writes: > > Hi, > > A demonstration version of Lime 1.1a is available for Macintosh > SE and II series computers. A binhex'ed stuffit file containing > the executable and manual can be copied via anonymous FTP from > /pub/lime on novamail.cerl.uiuc.edu (internet number: > 128.174.180.9). Read the "README" file in /pub/lime for further > instructions. > > The demonstration version is fully functional, but is limited to > three pages. > > Here are the most important differences between 0.7 and 1.1: > > -Several pieces can be edited at one time. > > -Several pages from the same piece can be edited at one > time. The pages can be from the same or different notation contexts. > > -You can copy and paste between several pieces you are > editing at one time. > > -You can enlarge or reduce (zoom) the view. (See Layout.) > > -It supports Sonata and Interlude fonts. (See Options. > You must purchase these fonts separate from Lime. ) > > -System breaks can be set at fixed (always the same) or > variable (calculated by the program) locations. > > -Unusual accidentals (user defined, also some quarter > tone symbols that can be adjusted in cents on synthesizers > that play microtones) are available under the note menu. > > -Dashed ties and slurs > > -"X moves with note" and "Y moves with note" have been > changed to "Horizontal lock" and "Vertical lock." NB: > Having the boxes checked now has the opposite effect. > Horizontal Lock checked means the annotation does not > move left or right with the note, but is "locked" in > position on the page. Likewise, having the Vertical > Lock checked means the annotation will not move up and > down with the note, but is locked on the page. > > -The Parameters dialogue has been improved, making > it easier to find the parameters. > > > > If you have problems or questions, please write Email to the Lime > Consultant. If you decide you would like to buy Lime after you > experiment with it, the ordering information is in the front cover > of the manual, or call (217) 244-4298. > > > Lippold Haken > CERL Sound Group > 252 ERL -- University of Illinois > Urbana, Il 61801-2977 > > Lime Consultant: Lime@uiuc.edu > > (dmc) ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************