EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 58, Issue 24 This issue's topics: Files (2 messages) Files and the FTP site Instrument definitions for Sound Blaster? (2 messages) more sequencer questions.. musictime passpost bundle 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, 29 Nov 1993 12:50:29 GMT From: Philip Jones Subject: Files Is there a limit to the number of files that can be downloaded in one day from LISTSERV and if so why? This is most annoying when getting packages! Philip Jones ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 13:38:08 EST From: Keith Maynard - CCC Subject: Re: Files > From att!AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU!AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU!owner-emusic-l Mon Nov 29 07:50:21 1993 > Is there a limit to the number of files that can be downloaded in > one day from LISTSERV and if so why? This is most annoying when getting > packages! > > Philip Jones > According to the PDGET HELP file, there is a limit to the number and/or size of files being requested. The limits apparently vary but the size I currently have (1991 version) are: 3 files/user/day or 100Kb/user/day 10 files/host/day or 300 Kb/host/day host in this defn is that which occurs after the '@' sign. This limitation is apparently enforced by a program called TRICKLE which handles LISTSERV requests. This is my understanding of the information in this file. Keith Maynard ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:50:16 -0500 From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Re: Files and the FTP site > > Is there a limit to the number of files that can be downloaded in > one day from LISTSERV and if so why? This is most annoying when getting > packages! Yes, there is a 256K limit to keep people from monopolizing the site. In other news, the FTP site is down temporarily until I can get the new name - I've just been switched onto Ethernet instead of Ethernet routed through AppleTalk, so I have a new nodename (which the former owner of the Ethernet card did not know). I will see if I can get the name swapped so that castrovalva points to the new address. --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 10:24:08 EST From: David Lunney Subject: Instrument definitions for Sound Blaster? Dear e-music gurus: You folks seem to work with some pretty high end gear, so my question may be going to the wrong place. I use the lowly Sound Blaster to produce audio output in a lab computer for visually impaired science students. The SB is used to give spoken values of numerical measurements (like temperature, for example) and is also used to play more complex data (like spectra) as musical patterns. One problem I have encountered is that the SB instruments mostly sound like funeral parlor organs, and it has been difficult design voices that are readily distinguishable from each other. (I have written a Pascal program that lets you change FM para- meters and audition the results. Even with that, it's difficult to make good instruments.) Now to my question: does anyone know of a public domain collection of SB FM parameters? David Lunney Department of Chemistry and Science Institute for the Disabled East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 USA CHLUNNEY@ECUVM1 (BITNET) CHLUNNEY@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU (INTERNET) VOICE: 919-757-6713 919-758-6453 FAX: 919-757-6210 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 11:12:47 GMT From: Greg Lee Subject: Re: Instrument definitions for Sound Blaster? David Lunney (CHLUNNEY@ECUVM1.BITNET) wrote: : Now to my question: does anyone know of a public domain collection : of SB FM parameters? There are several hundred I've collected from various sources in file sbpatch.tar.gz available from ftp.Hawaii.edu in /outgoing. They are collected in files each with 128 patches. (The .tar file is compressed with the FSF program gzip.) Most of them are no good. -- Greg Lee ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 21:04:10 -0600 From: Mark Swann Subject: more sequencer questions.. musictime passpost bundle the thing about shopping for a sequencer, is that, you have to buy it before you know what it can really do,, compar that to shopping for any other music related item,, you can hear a synth, pick a bass, plug in an amp, test a microphone,, but,, the sequencers come in this nice saran wrapped box with a few cereal box ingredient explanations on the side. plus a salesperson, who,, (which is not their fault) cant really keep up with *every damn software item out there,, and is usually only familliar with one or two. the one *they own. -- well its either cubase plus some printing program or passport 's musictime bundle... .... svann. ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************