EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 49, Issue 12 This issue's topics: Bob, the guitar player Commercial Music COMPUSERVE! (2 messages) Computer Music Phone number needed for MIX mag. (3 messages) places Sound programming (2 messages) The difference bettwen FM and DIGITIZED Wendy Carlos "SONIC SEASONINGS" on Compact Disc (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: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 11:52:00 EST From: Mario Vergona Subject: Bob, the guitar player Hi, Since bob has made no mention of being able to play keyboards, the two things I think he should look at are 1) ROLAND GR-1 guitar synth - it has lots of sounds builtin and a sequencer. it costs 1050 and the guitar conytoller is appox 180. This could get you up and running real quick. 2) the BAND-IN-A-BOX and ROLAND SCC1 card bundle pack for the IBM. It costs 390 and might be just what you want. Check out the advertisments in KEYBOARD magazine m ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 05:42:36 -0600 From: Eric Stratton Moseley Subject: Commercial Music I thought Southwest Texas State University had a commercial music program. In fact, I thought they were one of the forerunners in Texas. But one of my students talked to a representative from there yesterday who didn't know anything about it. Can anyone help, especially with the name of the person who might be running the program? Names of other colleges in Texas would be appreciated also. Thanks. Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 11:21:46 PDT From: "Q, of The Q Continuem" Subject: COMPUSERVE! Hi, all! Here's a question for you that doesn't belong here! Does anyone have a phone number to contact the pay-as-you-play net? I need to get a number for Compuserve, and then find out if they have an Internet gateway. (and access numbers for Oklahoma, etc.) Any help you may have would be GREATLY appreciated. Oh, for the sake of the other listers, please reply to my personal address... (Also I'm not on all of the forums I'm writing to...) Thanks! STAN JACOBS ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 14:25:00 EST From: Robert Depin Subject: COMPUSERVE Hi All, Stan you can contact compuserve via hermes.merit.edu. That node is seems to be a general gateway to all pay services. However, this is from the internet to compuserve. Last I new compuserve didn't have telnet or ftp services available, just email. Since my work system is on the internet I decided to switch to delphi which provides full internet access. I'm sorry I don't have the compuserve access number anymore. Bob DEPIN@TARGET.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 13:50:56 -0700 From: Dagfinn Mehus Subject: Computer Music I'm new on this list, and I joined it because I need some help from the pro's out there. I want to buy a keyboard (or synthesizer like the YAMAHA pd300) and a sound- card for my 486 PC. The question is simply: What is the best buy for a keybaord and a soundcard for the absolute beginner? I can't afford to spend more than 500 bucks... _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ *******DBM1729@SILVER.SDSMT.EDU******* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 07:28:06 EST From: "Sean F. Jepson" Subject: Phone number needed for MIX mag. If anyone has the number handy for Mix mag. or maybe mix bookshelf please let me know. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean Jepson ---------------------------------------------------------- USDA, Economic Research Service ------------------------------------ SJEPSON@ERS.BITNET --------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 09:37:00 EST From: rg8 Subject: Re: Phone number needed for MIX mag. Sean, the number for Mix Bookshelf is 1-800-233-9604. Bob Gibson rg8@umail.umd.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 12:03:47 LCL From: Terry Barnum Subject: Phone number needed for MIX mag. >If anyone has the number handy for Mix mag. or maybe mix bookshelf >please let me know. MIX Booxshelf 6400 Hollis St. #12 Emeryville, CA 94608 1-800-233-9604 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 02:36:57 -0600 From: Joel Boelke Subject: places I'm new on the usenet servers and lists, so please excuse this message if it is entirely out of context. I'm an engineering student looking for audio companies that do coop/work-study programs. For anyone who knows anything about the coop program, I would appreciate any information about companies or the right lists (if there are any) that I could look into for help on this subject. I am looking for a company that works in preferabally digital sound processing and construction. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Also I am looking for any other music related lists. The usergroup listing I have seen has only elusic-l listed on it, are there other music lists out there? Any of these (much appreciated) answers could be sent to me at: jrb3803@exodus.valpo.edu through internet. Thank you for your time! Joel Boelke Valparaiso University,IN ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 19:24:29 -0500 From: J_D@DELPHI.COM Subject: Sound programming Can anyone recommend a good book or videotape on keyboard sound synthesis. I own an Ensoniq VFX and am beginning to explore the programming pa- rameters. I am just beginning to do sound synthesis so I am looking for a beginning or intermediate level book. A book particularly directed towards the Ensoniq VFX would probably be best. Thanks in advance. Mark Maleski J_D@Delphi.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 18:03:25 -0500 From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Synth programming techniques (from SYNTH-L) Desi the Three-Armed Wonder Comic writes: > Joe McMahon writes: > >Desi the Three-Armed Wonder Comic writes: > >> > >> i came up with a dead ringer for that trevor horn/ztt/frankie goes to > >> hollywood bass sound on the mks-70. i've also had some luck emulating > >> the tb303 although it would be nice to be able to turn portamento on > >> and off for individual notes to get that true acid effect. > >> > >If you're interested in posting on EMUSIC-L, Method! Method! > > > well, i'd have to actually do a patch dump on the ZTT bass cos i have > no clue how i got it anymore (this is assuming i even bothered to save > the sound - i'm of the brian eno school of synth programming, ie: > don't save anything.) the main trick seems to be having a really > sharp filter envelope - you go from very open to very closed very > quickly at the beginning of the sound to give it a sort of plucked > effect. > > the tb303 was arrived at by sitting around thinking "what does the > tb303 have that makes it unique"? well, it's got one oscillator. so > i nuked osc 2 completely. it only has sawtooth and triangle waves. > unfortunately, the mks70 only has sawtooth. so, pick sawtooth at 16' > (or 8' if you prefer). set portamento time to something in the range > 15-20. use lots of filter. i like to have a slow sinewave lfo > modifying the filter. don't use any env mod although if you set the > attack low and apply dynamics to env mod then you can get some useful > randomness in the filter. don't use chorus. basically the tb303 has > very little to it, so don't use stacked voice mode, or anything like > that. just make it clear and pronounced in the mix with lots of bass. > use an outboard EQ if needed. > > if you want to forward this to emusic-L, feel free. > > Jon Drukman (edited for television) jondr@sco.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Always note the sequencer - this will never let us down. > For your patch-making edification... --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 17:35:11 LCL From: CBDZ117F@GRTHEUN1.BITNET Subject: The difference bettwen FM and DIGITIZED There are a lot of PC cards using FM synthesis. Not long ago some other cards appeared in the market. Samplers. Can you tell me the difference(s) between FM synthesis and sampling ? Thanks in advnace.....Panayiotis Stokas - cbdz117f@ossa.ccf.auth.gr or cbdz117f@grtheun1.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 09:24:40 -0500 From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Wendy Carlos "SONIC SEASONINGS" on Compact Disc (fwd) david_a._lewis@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca writes: > Hi Everyone..... > > This is my first effort at "sending" a message on E-Mail, so if I'm doing it > wrong, I appologize in advance... > > I'm looking for a particular album by the electronic/classical/avante garde > composer Wendy Carlos, entitled "SONIC SEASONINGS", in COMPACT DISC format. It > was originally issued as a vinyl L.P. in 1972 on "Columbia Stereo" (red > label) serial #PG-31234 . > > If anyone reading this has EVER seen "SONIC SEASONINGS" on compact disc, > available anywhere in the world (perhaps as a Japanese import?), I would > greatly appreciate hearing from you directly. It is often very difficult to > "special order" CD's in Canada....hence this request... > > If anyone has any information on this, or information on how to contact Wendy > Carlos DIRECTLY, please contact me/and/or forward this message to her via > E-mail... > > Carlos lives in the New York area, and is associated, I think, with Columbia > University. > > Currently, her most recent recording was issued by "Telarc" called "Switched > On Bach 2000" (Telarc CD-80323), a restatement of her first album (released > 25 years ago) called "Switched On Bach". > > "S.O.B. 2000" is VERY nicely done---it incorporates "authentic" (non-equal > temperment) scale tunings. This is perhaps the best way of utilizing the > microtonalism inherently possible in modern synth. keyboards. Her initial > exploration into microtonalist territory, entitled "Beauty in the Beast" was a > major departure, and although very interesting, was perhaps a bit of stretch > for the many fans of her previous output, who had been waiting eagerly (for > several years) for more neo-classical/baroque music... > > The single, best seminal work providing the corner-stone for the "New Age" > "Environmental", "Psycho-acoustic", and "Electronic sampling" approaches to > modern music, is "SONIC > SEASONINGS". > > Her work is an important landmark in the electronic music "soundscape", and it > deserves to be reissued/preserved on compact disc. > > IF we all contact Telarc Records DIRECTLY, they just MIGHT re-issue > "SONIC SEASONINGS" (and the rest of her "back catalogue") on compact disc. > > I don't have an E-Mail address for TELARC, or for Wendy Carlos...so... > > Contact "Telarc" at (snail-mail): > > Telarc International Corporation > Corporate Office > 23307 Commerce Park Road > Cleveland, OH 44122 U.S.A. > Ph. (216) 464-2313 > Business Fax (216) 360-9663 > Sales Fax (216) 464-4108 > > Thanks Very Much. > David A. Lewis > david_a._lewis@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca,Internet ***************************** EdgeWays! InfoLink ***************************** name@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca GUI BBS: (604) 984-2777 * Voice: (604) 984-6860 *The views expressed here are of the individual author only. * [From FirstClass(tm) by PostalUnion Lite(tm) from North Vancouver, BC Canada] ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------