EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 51, Issue 07 This issue's topics: EZVision/ EdLib Problem (3 messages) New Line of Mac's (15 messages) PC Midi Interface 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, 5 Apr 1993 13:26:30 -0400 From: "David R. Sacco" Subject: EZVision/ EdLib Problem Hi all, I have a problem running an Ed/Lib and EZVision on my mac IIsi at the same time. EZVision seems to want to hog all the midi communications, and the Ed/lib won't work. Any help, anyone? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 12:01:36 PDT From: Casey Dunn Subject: EZVision/ EdLib Problem You said (Re: EZVision/ EdLib Problem) > Hi all, > I have a problem running an Ed/Lib and EZVision on my mac IIsi at the > same time. EZVision seems to want to hog all the midi communications, > and the Ed/lib won't work. Any help, anyone? I think there is a switch with which you tell OMS to allow non-OMS application to use the serial ports. it should be in on an OMS Setup option dialog box.... unf I'm not at home with the manuals...but check out the MIDI setup dbxs... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 07:41:38 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: EZVision/ EdLib Problem >Any help, anyone? Sounds like the Ed/Lib doesn't use OMS. I could go on about this issue at length but I don't want to reiterate everything. Hopefully an up-and-coming issue of the Mac TidBITs electronic newsletter will cover all this stuff in detail. Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 14:48:05 -0400 From: Jon Crystal Subject: New Line of Mac's Does anyone out there have any insights/inside info on the next line of Macs due out in the next few months? All I've heard is that there will be DSP chips built in, which could be real exciting if Apple does it right. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 20:11:05 EDT From: Dayl Burnett Subject: Re: New Line of Mac's > > Does anyone out there have any insights/inside info on the next line of > Macs due out in the next few months? All I've heard is that there will be > DSP chips built in, which could be real exciting if Apple does it right. > Yes, these systems will be dual processors. All of the voice, video, etc. will be done on one chip while the *normal computing* will be done on the other. These will have a voice command known as Casper. They have input 15,000 samples for each word, so no training will have to be done for Casper to understand you. These commands can also be overridden. Yes, you too can have a Mac that answers your phone, acts like a TV (video in/out), programs your VCR, plays your CDs, all with voice commands, at the *low, low* starting price of just $2,400.00! Yes, that's right! Twenty-four hundred dollars! (I'm not sure if this version will have the CD or not). You can throw away the phone, the answering machine, the TV, the CD player, and the remote control! The high end machine should be about $4,800.00. Yes, it slices, it dices... we asked about a microwave.... Maybe in the future....... Anonymous (not the sender shown on reply - just in case I'm breaking any rules - but then again, they didn't have me sign anything...) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 07:37:38 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: New Line of Mac's >All I've heard is that there will be >DSP chips built in, which could be real exciting if Apple does it right. They won't. Trust me. Meanwhile, Apple is working on a totally new MIDI Manager, apparently, with audio hookup (8-bit I hear, well, great...). I can't wait to run it alongside the old MIDI Manager, Opcode's new OMS 2.0 and MOTU's FreeMIDI... Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 07:47:42 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: New Line of Mac's >Yes, >you too can have a Mac that answers your phone, acts like a TV (video >in/out), programs your VCR, plays your CDs, all with voice commands, at >the *low, low* starting price of just $2,400.00! Yes, that's right! >Twenty-four hundred dollars! Yeah, just what I need, a machine which answers my phone with a Californian accent, to which I have to talk in American, and which won't work with my VCR (which is PAL, not NTSC) and won't work properly with my phone (which is British, not US). Will I have to think in Russian to activate the thought-controlled missile system? Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 09:05:57 PDT From: metlay Subject: Re: New Line of Mac's > >Will I have to think in Russian to activate the thought-controlled missile >system? YAAAGHHH!! BAD CLINT EASTWOOD MOVIE ALERT! Bad Rothwell. No biscuit. -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I bow to the obvious superiority of a culture that coins words like "snog." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 10:05:45 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: New Line of Mac's >YAAAGHHH!! BAD CLINT EASTWOOD MOVIE ALERT! Nah. Firefox was a fun film. I liked it a lot. Apart from the Star Wars Death Star trench sequence at the end (well, if they would hire John Dijkstra for SFX, what did they expect?). The book is superb, and the sequel book (Firefox Down) is better. It could be made into a good film, but it's more likely to be made into a bad film. ObEMusicContent: Maurice Jarre's first electronic score, I think. Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 07:32:39 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: >Nick Rothwell said: >> Will I have to think in Russian to activate the thought-controlled missile >> system? >Ya lyublyu moosiku! Missed! (wugga wugga wugga) Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 08:29:53 EDT From: wbf@ALUXPO.ATT.COM Subject: Deep Thoughts... in Russian Nick Rothwell said: > Will I have to think in Russian to activate the thought-controlled missile > system? Then I said: > Ya lyublyu moosiku! Then Nick said: > Missed! (wugga wugga wugga) I understand "wugga wugga wugga" (I'm positive you didn't pick that up at Metlay's house, though I could be wrong) less than you understood "Ya lyublyu moosiku!" At least you knew it was Russian. It means "I love music!" (Or in Greek, "Agapo teen moosiki!" Or in French, "J'aime la musique!" .......) But what is a wugga? Bill Fox ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 15:47:15 GMT From: JOEL STERN Subject: DEEP THOUGHTS... IN RUSSIAN Nick Rothwell said: > Will I have to think in Russian to activate the thought-controlled missile > system? Then I said: > Ya lyublyu moosiku! Then Nick said: > Missed! (wugga wugga wugga) I understand "wugga wugga wugga" (I'm positive you didn't pick that up at Metlay's house, though I could be wrong) less than you understood "Ya lyublyu moosiku!" At least you knew it was Russian. It means "I love music!" (Or in Greek, "Agapo teen moosiki!" Or in French, "J'aime la musique!" .......) But what is a wugga? Bill Fox ------------------------------------------ THIS IS A REPLY TO THE ABOVE MESSAGE SUBJECT OF THE REPLY: REPLY ------------------------------------------ Missed. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 05:32:23 EDT From: Doug Walker Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts... in Russian > >On Wed, 28 Apr 1993 08:29:53 EDT said: >>Nick Rothwell said: >>> Will I have to think in Russian to activate the thought-controlled missile >>> system? >> >>Then I said: >>> Ya lyublyu moosiku! >> >>Then Nick said: >>> Missed! (wugga wugga wugga) >> >>I understand "wugga wugga wugga" (I'm positive you didn't pick that up >>at Metlay's house, though I could be wrong) less than you understood "Ya >>lyublyu moosiku!" At least you knew it was Russian. It means "I love >>music!" (Or in Greek, "Agapo teen moosiki!" Or in French, "J'aime la >>musique!" .......) But what is a wugga? >> >>Bill Fox > > Speakin' of languages, > in Polish - "Kocham muzyke." > in Deutsch - "Ich liebe musik." > in MIDI - "9C 54 23 7F 4R 19 51 8D" >(the last one I'm not sure of...) > >Jack L. > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Jack Latanowicz tel/fax Pl-(0-61) 798-202 >ul.Porzeczkowa 27 jack%plpuam11.bitnet@searn.sunet.se >61-306 Poznan > P O L A N D "all these words, thrown against the wall..." >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > THIS IS GETTING MORE THAN A LITTLE TEDIOUS! Doug Walker ncf.sigs.new.music ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 10:45:13 CET From: Jack Latanowicz Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts... in Russian On Wed, 28 Apr 1993 08:29:53 EDT said: >Nick Rothwell said: >> Will I have to think in Russian to activate the thought-controlled missile >> system? > >Then I said: >> Ya lyublyu moosiku! > >Then Nick said: >> Missed! (wugga wugga wugga) > >I understand "wugga wugga wugga" (I'm positive you didn't pick that up >at Metlay's house, though I could be wrong) less than you understood "Ya >lyublyu moosiku!" At least you knew it was Russian. It means "I love >music!" (Or in Greek, "Agapo teen moosiki!" Or in French, "J'aime la >musique!" .......) But what is a wugga? > >Bill Fox Speakin' of languages, in Polish - "Kocham muzyke." in Deutsch - "Ich liebe musik." in MIDI - "9C 54 23 7F 4R 19 51 8D" (the last one I'm not sure of...) Jack L. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Latanowicz tel/fax Pl-(0-61) 798-202 ul.Porzeczkowa 27 jack%plpuam11.bitnet@searn.sunet.se 61-306 Poznan P O L A N D "all these words, thrown against the wall..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 06:52:56 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts... in Russian >At least you knew it was Russian. Nope. That was a guess. Seeing ASCII rather than cyrillic threw me a bit. (But then, seeing cyrillic in my mail reader would have thrown me even more...) >But what is a wugga? No idea. I just picked it up as an expression years ago from some X-Men comic or something: thumbs in ears, fingers flapping, tongue sticking out, "wugga wugga wugga!" Suppose I'd better put in some obligEMusic content. (i) I've read the OMS developer specs. and the new manual. Rather nice. I'm impressed. (ii) I have Wavestation effects journalising and playback running in MAX now. Next project is chunk sequencers: it's half-working, with MIDI clock/SPP parsing and message broadcast working. (You can sync two PowerBooks together through a 2-MTP network. It seems to work rather well... I must try it as PB170->PB100 to see if I can duplicate metlay's problems.) Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 10:18:31 EDT From: ronin Subject: wugga wugga warning: no emusic content. the 'wugga wugga' image comes from a comc-book rendition of ellison's "repent harlequin, said the tick tock man", released some years ago. i forget the name of the book series, but the artist was either nino or the guy that also did "more than human". -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 (with Voice Mail) ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 09:45:09 PDT From: metlay Subject: Re: Deep Thoughts... in Russian >(You can sync two PowerBooks together >through a 2-MTP network. It seems to work rather well... I must try it as >PB170->PB100 to see if I can duplicate metlay's problems.) That would be nice. I'm beginning to think I'm hallucinating. -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gimme some juice and watch me blow, tell that joker where to go (buggles) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 09:42:29 EDT From: wbf@ALUXPO.ATT.COM Subject: Nick Rothwell said: > Will I have to think in Russian to activate the thought-controlled missile > system? Ya lyublyu moosiku! Bill Fox ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 11:12:26 -0500 From: Geoff Knight Subject: PC Midi Interface Can someone give me advice about what I might be able to do with my obsolete computer and midi equipment? I know this stuff is old and outdated but it still works and I can afford it! :-) I have an IBM XT with a 40 meg hard drive, 2 5.25 inch floppies and 640K. I also have a Yamaha FB01 sound module, a Yamaha keyboard with midi, a casio midi horn, and Yamaha midi drum pads. Is there a card which will allow these things to interface with my computer? Is there software which will allow me more flexibility over the control of the FB01 than I currently have via the front panel? Is there sequencer software that will work with this setup? Is it inexpensive enough to make it worthwhile to invest in for old stuff like this? I know this is not interesting to most of you with state of the art stuff but if someone could help I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Geoff GKnight%PSTCC.dnet@net.vanderbilt.edu ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************