EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 49, Issue 07 This issue's topics: Think-C MIDI Software (8 messages) Multimedia 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, 17 Feb 1993 22:33:00 PST From: BISHOP_M@PLU.BITNET Subject: Think-C MIDI Software Hey, Is anyone out there developing with Think-C for the Macintosh and if so would they be interested in sharing code and/or techniques and info? I have the MIDI Manager Devolpment kit from Apple and am beginning to attempt to program it. Mike Bishop BISHOP_M@PLU.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 09:12:29 EST From: vantomme@SOUND.MUSIC.MCGILL.CA Subject: Re: Think-C MIDI Software Here at McGill, we have done a fair amount of this. Last term I designed and implemented a simple patch editor for the Proteus MPS. I certainly am not the person to talk to about this, but you may want to talk to Dale Stammen, a PhD student here. His address is: stammen@music.mcgill.ca Tell him that I gave you his name and he should be more than willing to help out. Jason Vantomme. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 10:18:00 -0500 From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Re: Think-C MIDI Software Nick's nice THINK C interface to the MIDI Manager is available as an HQX'ed Compact Pro archive on castrovalva.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.33.197). It provides a few utility routines, plus support for channelized echo, asynchronous SysEx capture/transmission. It's implemented using the THINK C class structures, so it should be easily customizable to you application without major rewriting of the functions. --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 18:04:47 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Think-C MIDI Software I have some code on Joe's Mac (castrovalva.gsfc.nasa.gov I think) which is FTP'able. I consider MIDI Manager to be fine for interfacing between applications and other MIDI substrates such as OMS, but since Apple have dropped development of it and since all the developers of the package have now left, I doubt it has a future. I reckon that MOTU's FreeMIDI, and the counter-move of free OMS developer docs from Opcode, are going to set the scene. The question is when, and quite how. Nick Rothwell | "There is no such word as `impossible' CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | in my dictionary. In fact, everything cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk | between `herring' and `marmalade' cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk | appears to be missing." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 12:42:00 PST From: BISHOP_M@PLU.BITNET Subject: Re: Think-C MIDI Software Nick, When did they drop it? I hadn't heard about it? Are they going to support it in other ways, or just not at all? If not, then do you know if Opcode of MOTU have development kits for their MIDI "managers". I would like to develop for the most standard platform. Also, how can I get the latest verion of OMS. I hear that it solved one of the powerbook problems. Can I get it for free? Do you have addresses that I can write or numbers to call? Is it possible for me to ask any more questions than I just did? :-) Thanks, Mike Bishop BISHOP_M@PLU.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 17:08:14 PST From: Casey Dunn Subject: Re: Think-C MIDI Software You said (Re: Re: Think-C MIDI Software) > > Hey, > > Manners manners... [deletion o data] > of it and since all the developers of the package have now left, I doubt it > has a future. I reckon that MOTU's FreeMIDI, and the counter-move of free > OMS developer docs from Opcode, are going to set the scene. The question is > when, and quite how. I hope it dosn't get rolled into quicktime... and the OpCode folk don't seem to be in any hurry. just about every time I call about this they're "still thinking about it..." casey ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 17:56:48 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Think-C MIDI Software > Nick, > When did they drop it? I've lost this thread now. What was I talking about? >If not, then do you know if >Opcode of MOTU have development kits for their MIDI "managers". Opcode have offered me the OMS developer docs and kit. MOTU's FreeMIDI is still vapourware at this stage. >Also, how can I get the latest >verion of OMS. Call Opcode, I guess. Their number is in any issue of KEYBOARD. Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 17:56:58 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Think-C MIDI Software >I hope it dosn't get rolled into quicktime... and the OpCode folk >don't seem to be in any hurry. just about every time I call about this >they're "still thinking about it..." I was offered the OMS docs, but nothing's turned up yet. Is there anyone else out there who finds QuickTime and multimedia as gobsmackingly, mindnumbingly boring as I do? Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 11:26:32 PST From: mifriese@CLN.ETC.BC.CA Subject: Re: Multimedia In the Saturday Digest Nick Rothwell writes: >Is there anyone else out there who finds QuickTime and multimedia as >gobsmackingly, mindnumbingly boring as I do? I'm not sure if I'd classify multimedia as 'boring', but it certainly isn't all it's cracked up to be. The assumption is that your average computer operator is suddenly going to be able to crank out presentations which make use of really impressive sounds. I don't consider this a realistic goal. The problem, as I see it, is that managing sound takes one hell of a lot of skill and (dare I say it?) art. With all due respect to the average desk jockey, this is not realistic. I can use a drawing program to crank out workable graphics for test papers and work sheets - but that doesn't make me a graphic artist. Nor does it significantly lift my work above that of any other dabbler. Attractive it may be, but a quantum leap forward it's not. I predict that multimedia sound will soon go the way of desktop publishing: people will come to understand that truly professional products are created by the professionals who have the skills and tools to do a professional job. I look forward to that day - partly because I'll have an expanded market for my services... **************************** Michael Friesen I'net:mifriese@cln.etc.bc.ca North Peace Secondary School Fort St. John, B.C. WorkVox: 604 785 4429 HomeVox: 604 787 9856 ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************