EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 61, Issue 22 This issue's topics: MIDIFILE-L (4 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, 1 Feb 1994 18:12:46 EST From: JOHN ALBERT PINION Subject: MIDIFILE-L >For what it's worth, I like Arne Claasen's idea of a MIDI-L >listserve. Gee, I thought that was my idea; well, no matter... What I was thinking was similar to EAT-L on which recipes and related information is shared. You can go to any cookbook and find a recipe for baked chicken or pasta salad, but EAT-L provides that unique discussion format that allows the sharing of little tips, shortcuts, and the like; and to me, that was the best of it - not full-scale wedding day menu's (although that was done also). True, voicings and timbres can be hidious to translate and match onto different machines, but so can exactly matching the ingredients in say a Tai dish when shopping at Pigley Wigley in the heart of Tennessee. The fun, of course is in the spirit of the idea--and you get a wonderful meal thrown in to boot. The main thing being that you learn as you go along. It was really just a thought; I have no idea how it would actually work in practice. >As an aside, how can you get midi over email...? > >Phil In the Mac environment, the easiest way I know is to BinHex the midi file with most any compression program (thus converting it to ascii). (Upon unBinHexing, the file type may need to be changed back to 'MIDI'.) Then, it can simply attach to the text portion of a message describing or commenting on the file, letting others know if they want to 'clip and save' it. For example, this binhexed midi file contains just three chords: True, it is rather long for 2 measures. I don't personally feel it's a 'big deal' to do the necessary translations, and would probably set up a macro for the purpose if I needed to do it on a regular basis. In any case, I'm sure few midi files could approach the volumous proportions of that Health Care Reform list from the Clinton White House, mailings of which I don't think I've ever reached the end of before typing 'n'! Cheers! John Pinion ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 20:10:08 -0500 From: DEMOLITION MAN Subject: Re: MIDIFILE-L So then, what we would need is a compression (translation?) standard for the list so that all recipients would be able to translate the files. The ENCODE and UNENCODE commands seem to be the best bet, ast they seem to be ubiquitous to the majority of servers. If not, we need something that can be used by Mac, PC and anything else out ther e. ANy suggestions? IS there some sort of protocol that can be used by a wide variety of machines? Another question on an entirely different subject. What kind of software is out there to do hard disk recording? For example, I can sample at 16 bit 44.1 khz. However, in any long recording, I get errors that resemble a record skipping. I understand thsi is a flaw of DOS. I am working in ms-windows, and I assume that it would run faster outside of that environment. However, by leaving windows, I lose my mixing capabilities. Is there some software that will facilitate better recording in windows. Do i need to pick up another hard disk, format it differently somehow, and use it exclusively for hard disk recording. Is multitrack pc hard disk recording possible? Phil SPS5251@SIENA.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 09:03:03 EST From: David Lunney Subject: Re: MIDIFILE-L I believe the problem with ticks in a direct-to-disk recording on a DOS machine is caused by the DOS interrupts. The sampler on the Sound Blaster gets around this by double buffering. Surely other samplers can do the same thing. David Lunney Department of Chemistry and Science Institute for the Disabled East Carolina University Greenvlle, NC 27858 USA VOICE: 919-757-6713 919-758-6453 FAX: 919-757-6210 CHLUNNEY@ECUVM1.BITNET CHLUNNEY@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 22:34:19 EST From: JOHN ALBERT PINION Subject: MIDIFILE-L >For what it's worth, I like Arne Claasen's idea of a MIDI-L >listserve. Gee, I thought that was my idea; well, no matter... What I was thinking was similar to EAT-L on which recipes and related information is shared. You can go to any cookbook and find a recipe for baked chicken or pasta salad, but EAT-L provides that unique discussion format that allows the sharing of little tips, shortcuts, and the like; and to me, that was the best of it - not full-scale wedding day menu's (although that was done also). True, voicings and timbres can be hidious to translate and match onto different machines, but so can exactly matching the ingredients in say a Tai dish when shopping at Pigley Wigley in the heart of Tennessee. The fun, of course is in the spirit of the idea--and you get a wonderful meal thrown in to boot. The main thing being that you learn as you go along. It was really just a thought; I have no idea how it would actually work in practice. >As an aside, how can you get midi over email...? > >Phil In the Mac environment, the easiest way I know is to BinHex the midi file with most any compression program (thus converting it to ascii). (Upon unBinHexing, the file type may need to be changed back to 'MIDI'.) Then, it can simply attach to the text portion of a message describing or commenting on the file, letting others know if they want to 'clip and save' it. For example, this binhexed midi file contains just three chords: True, it is rather long for 2 measures. I don't personally feel it's a 'big deal' to do the necessary translations, and would probably set up a macro for the purpose if I needed to do it on a regular basis. In any case, I'm sure few midi files could approach the volumous proportions of that Health Care Reform list from the Clinton White House, mailings of which I don't think I've ever reached the end of before typing 'n'! Cheers! John Pinion ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************