EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 57, Issue 16 This issue's topics: UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE (4 messages) voyager; zippers 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: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 14:17:14 GMT From: JOEL STERN Subject: UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE When is someone going to come out with an IBM version of something like MAX: is the IBM platform incapable of supporting that level of sophistication? Joel Stern Library Of Congress stern@mail.loc.gov tel:301-588-8061 fax:301-585-7642 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 13:34:58 -0500 From: "Dr. Kirk Corey" Subject: Re: UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE It's my understanding that MAX will soon run under NeXTStep Intel, which is $227 here in Iowa City. Anyone? On Fri, 1 Oct 1993, JOEL STERN wrote: > When is someone going to come out with an IBM version of > something like MAX: is the IBM platform incapable of supporting > that level of sophistication? > > Joel Stern > Library Of Congress > stern@mail.loc.gov > tel:301-588-8061 fax:301-585-7642 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dr. Kirk Corey [insert Electronic Systems Administrator kirk-corey@uiowa.edu disclaimer School of Music here] The University of Iowa "Msdos? MSDOS? I've seen CALCULATORS with a better operating system!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 15:23:00 EDT From: John Rossi III Subject: Re: UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE The problem with IBM ports of anything done by the big Mac MIDI guys remains more a religious problem rather than anything which would be expected in the marketplace. Clearly, there isn't enough interest in a program such as Max to warrant a development effort by a company which can make bigger bucks tooling up for what the 99.5% of IBM users want (as opposed to high-end MIDI applications), and whose primary maerket isn't already MIDI applications. The fact that neither Performer or Vision were ported to the IBM more than five years ago demonstrates the lack of business competence of either MOTU or Opcode. Personally, I wouldn't purchase stock in either company. John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 13:36:08 PDT From: Casey Dunn Subject: Re: UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE You said (Re: Re: UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE) > The fact that neither Performer or Vision were ported to the IBM more than > five years ago demonstrates the lack of business competence of either > MOTU or Opcode. Personally, I wouldn't purchase stock in either company. > > John even if they were public, eh? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 09:34:34 EDT From: ronin Subject: voyager; zippers 1) as i understand the liner notes, the voyager sounds disk is just the telemetry data from six different sensors modulated into an audio range. what they don't say, but must be true from the sound of it, is that a hell of a lot of reverb is applied, as well. of which i heartily approve, of course. 2) the zipper noise that has been described here is a different (albeit real) effect from that which i have come to associate with the term. what you're talking about are variations of interference. what i call zipper noise is the result of a rapid parameter change on a digital instrument that does not interpolate at all between the quantized values... such as a quick volume pedal move on the roland d50, which audibly ratchets through its 127 steps. (maybe it's not a full 127... that would be a cause. i'll have to check it out.) -----------< 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 >------------------- ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************