========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 23:22:28 -0700 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Karl Petersen Subject: ARTIS-T Problems//AU to ZMIDI CONVERTER The series II converter I am using has not had the first-run AI, so I am still using the generic Artist/Style Characterization sets on the green CDs. Since these only have the piano artists for which reproducing rolls were made, I only can make decent conversions for pre-1940 piano artists and those who used the Bosendorfer SE. Crud. I have tried to pump through other artists by trying to match A/SC files. They come out sounding like Joe-Blatz-trying-to-sound-like-Bolcom. Very silly. Reminds me of Robin Williams doing Porky Pig doing the Boss, and you can hear each phoney emulation clear as day! This would be funny if it were not a complete waste commercially when trying to remaster AUs with technique and agogic accent that were not even thought of in 1940. Since I got this rig through a VAR who became defunct while still owing the factory for my rig, I cannot even get ftp updates. Is there anyone with the second series AI that will trade A/SC binaries for some conversion time? I just need the sections for classical piano at this time, and will not need more than three new A/SCs developed a month. Since Series III with AI has not been released past the beta versions. I have at least 400 hours of accompanied piano that needs that technology hooked in to trim the accompaniment for conversion, and haven't even been able to sieve the 'net for release date clues now that the developers have stopped corresponding to the beta sites in Korean. Has the target price been released? Like I say, I can't even get the time of day!!! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 03:06:27 -0600 Reply-To: r-rosen@UKANS.EDU Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Renee Rosen Subject: Re: PC based simulations of In-Reply-To: <199601070600.BAA127400@atlanta.american.edu> On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, i.s.o.r. magazine! wrote: > Has anyone toyed with the windows based program SimSynth? i've had it on > my computer for a long time and am just now trying to understand it but > this seems like a brillant idea that has been overlooked many times. For > those of you that don't know it is an analogue synth simulator. I'm sure > it does not exactly replicate a snyth but is it not more satiating to > 'invent' your own sound? > Where did you find this program? Is it freeware, shareware, or commercial software? Is there some place you can ftp it from or a web page that you can find it at? TIA! --'--,--{@ --'--,--{@ Renee Rosen r-rosen@ukans.edu http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~rrosen ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:14:33 +1000 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: David Rodger Subject: Major crash Comments: To: synth-l@american.edu Comments: cc: max@vm1.mcgill.ca Hello list subscribers, my university's system crashed in a major way yesterday and was down until today. I don't know what effect this had on anyone trying to send me mail. Sorry if you got lots of bounces. It was beyond my control. Looking forward to being in contact again! Regards, David musdr@lure.latrobe.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 16:42:10 -0500 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: David Crandall Subject: Windows/DOS digital sound apps I am normally a Mac platform user (Session, ProTools, Sound Designer) but I am currently working with an artist who wants to do a project on the DOS/Windows platform and purchase gear/software that will do what the Mac apps mentioned above do. I would appreciate hearing either directly or via the list from users of Samplitude, S.A.W. and other PC-platform applications concerning both general pros and cons as well as: - which packages do time-shifting, pitch change, and other functions I associate with Sound Designer. - system requirements, memory, disk resources, including which packages run under which versions of Windows or "plain DOS" and how well/poorly, undocumented conflicts with other programs, etc. - OR if anybody can direct me to an archive, Web page, or other resource where this information may be already summarized... Thanks in advance, dcrand1@umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:08:43 PDT Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Fred MoTTe Subject: Session 8 + PC + SB awe32 = kaboom I've recently purchased a Digidesign Session 8 package for Windows, mostly to record guitar and bass tracks. I also have in the PC a Soundblaster AWE32 which I use for sampling and to pilot 2 little synths. The problem is that the SCSI disk connected to the Digidesign DSP/SCSI card won't work if the awe32 is plugged in (not even initialized or whatever... Just plugged in...). I've tried to change the IRQs and DMAs in all the possible ways without any success... Any clue ? Thanks fmotte@mindscape.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:43:00 BST Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Paul Hallett Subject: SB AWE 32 Sound Fonts - Help please. Forgive me if this is a daft question, but I'm a beginner with all things MIDI: I have a Soundblaster AWE 32 sound card which I use to play midi files that I've composed. It says on the box and briefly in the manual that you can use Sound Fonts to replace an existing instrument (such as Bright Acoustic Piano) with a sound sample of your own, and i'd like to try this but the "manual" is woefully inadequate on how to do it. Can any one give me any help on this please. Thanks, Paul Hallett ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:14:17 +0100 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Kai Schwirzke Subject: Re: Session 8 + PC + SB awe32 = kaboom > I've recently purchased a Digidesign Session 8 package for Windows, mostly > to record guitar and bass tracks. I also have in the PC a Soundblaster > AWE32 which I use for sampling and to pilot 2 little synths. The problem is > that the SCSI disk connected to the Digidesign DSP/SCSI card won't work if > the awe32 is plugged in (not even initialized or whatever... Just plugged > in...). I've tried to change the IRQs and DMAs in all the possible ways > without any success... Any clue ? > > Thanks > > fmotte@mindscape.com I had a similar problem with Session 8, Soundblaster 16 and a Motu Timepiece II. Whenever I tried to start Session 8, Cubase Audio or the TP II setup, Windows95 crashed. The final solution was to disable the FM synth on the Soundblaster. Pretty strange, but it worked! Hope this helps a bit, Kai ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:41:26 PST Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List Comments: Environmental Systems Research Institute From: "Tapas Das [ESRI-Redlands]" Subject: New Lexicon PCM-90/CES highlights Lexicon has come up with a brand new reverb unit. The PCM-90. This will compliment the PCM-80, which was primarily an effects units which happened to have a very good reverb. The PCM-90 does studio quality reverb alone. I will definitely stop by the Lexicon booth at next weeks NAMM show to check this out. The PCM-90 issue came up as I was discussing Lexicons new AC-3 processor, the DC-1 which supercedes the CP-3 Plus. Digital Virtual Discs (DVD) were everywhere and took centerstage at the CES. They are capable of 700 lines of progressive scanning and easily blew away the laserdisc quality we are all used to. Yamaha showed off their DSP-A3090 7 channel processor that adds cinema DSP to regular AC-3 for a spectacular soundfield. Yes, it felt better than straight AC-3. At a list price of $2499, this is set to become a hit. The best sound of the show was demonstrated by Wilson Audio. This could be termed as the ultimate Audio/Video experience. They had a pair of Wilson X-1 Grand Slamms ($67,500) for the front left and right, a Watt/Puppy V ($15,000) for the center and a pair of Witts ($9000) for the rear plus a pair of their new X-S subs ($20,000). All amplification was by Krell Audio Standard pure class A amps and KAV-500i integrated amps. The video was displayed on a giant Stewart screen from dual Runco 980 projectors fed by a Runco Laserjet II laserdics player with AC-3 and enhanced by a Faroudja line quadrupler. When they showed the Apollo 13 launch sequence, I felt as if I was actually there. The system displayed excellent dynamics with delicacy. As a point of comparison, this was so good that it made the JBL demo next room sound like an ordinary boombox. And I must add this was JBLs top of the line $40,000 Synthesis One system. The future looks better and better! Tapas Das tdas@esri.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 18:44:18 EST Reply-To: STERN@MAIL.LOC.GOV Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List Comments: PC SYNTHESIZER EMULATION, ETC. From: JOEL STERN Subject: PC SYNTHESIZER EMULATION, ETC. Said the person from i.s.o.r. magazine (sorry--didn't get the name):---------- Has anyone toyed with the windows based program SimSynth? i've ha my computer for a long time and am just now trying to understand this seems like a brillant idea that has been overlooked many tim those of you that don't know it is an analogue synth simulator. I it does not exactly replicate a snyth but is it not more satiatin 'invent' your own sound? ----------- I haven't seen SimSynth, but I sure would like to. I've been toying with the "lite" version (freeware) of WaveCraft, the full shareware version of which is probably similar to SimSynth: it let's you define oscillators, filters, envelopes, VCAs, mixers, etc., on a matrix and outputs the result as a .WAV file. One nice thing about WaveCraft is that it allows use of .WAV files as the input sound source. One not so nice thing about it is that I haven't been able to get the distributor, Last Unicorn in San Francisco, to call me back so that I can order the full version. If anyone knows where SimSynth is available I'd love to know so I can give that a try. I'm getting more and more interested in any form of electronic sound production that allows one to get away from the diatonic, hard wired paradigm that reigns supreme in the market-place, i.e., the keyboard MIDI controller that is passed off as a "synthesizer." I'm also pretty much out of patience with computer sequencer programs that collude with "synthsizers" to keep one in a measure based, metric, white-keys-and-black-keys compositional framework. I currently find myself trying to get my synths to do things that they weren't really designed to do and work around the heavy pop/traditional composition bias built into my software. From where I am now, it looks like real-time software-based synthesis is the only hope on the horizon. For now, lacking the funds to purchase the stuff, and for want of access to a fully equipped sound lab, I'm pasting bits and pieces from programs like WaveCraft ("lite") and noises from my overextended synths into my hard disk recording software (Samplitude) to achieve my (not very well defined) ends. I'd also like to find an algorithnic composition program that really lets me play around with the algorithms without requiring any great skill in programming, just in case anyone knows of such a thing. Joel Stern stern@email.loc.gov j.stern11.genie.geis.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:25:23 EST Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Kevin Miller <71760.476@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Turtle Beach and Win95? Comments: To: Synth-L Mail List , IBM Sound Card Mail List Has anyone got any tips or hints on how well the Turtle Beach products work after upgrading your operating system from Win 3.1 to Win 95? For hardware, I have a Multisound Classic and a Maui. I also have an original Roland MPU-401 MIDI interface. For software, I use TBS's Wave II SE, WavePatch, and 12-Tone's Cakewalk for Windows. Also, how is the built-in MPU-401 driver in Win 95? Can it take input from more than one program at a time? If anyone is using these with Win 95, I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks, Kevin ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:32:37 +1000 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: David Rodger Subject: Re: New Lexicon PCM-90/CES highlights Hi Tapas... > They had a pair of Wilson X-1 Grand Slamms ($67,500) for the > front left and right, a Watt/Puppy V ($15,000) for the center > and a pair of Witts ($9000) for the rear plus a pair of their > new X-S subs ($20,000). > > All amplification was by Krell Audio Standard pure class A amps and [...] > The future looks better and better! And sounds better. Unfortunately, it just looks and sounds more expensive. Regards, David musdr@lure.latrobe.edu.au P.S. Unlike certain music products and lower-priced recording gear, Wilsons _don't_ drop in price! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:14:56 PDT Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Fred MoTTe Subject: Re: PC SYNTHESIZER EMULATION Another _very_ powerful software to create sound, modify sounds, analyze sounds and so on, is Virtual Waves, by Fretless International. Unfortunately for you all english only speaking people, it is only available in french right now. I really hope they will soon do an english version, because it deserves to be known worldwide. I've bought it, it costs 1000 French Francs, which is about USD 200. It comes with hundreds of examples, a big inline help, and a paper book explaining the basics of sound synthesis. fmotte@mindscape.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:22:51 PDT Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Fred MoTTe Subject: Re[2]: Session 8 + PC + SB awe32 = kaboom >> I've recently purchased a Digidesign Session 8 package for Windows, mostly >> to record guitar and bass tracks. I also have in the PC a Soundblaster >> AWE32 which I use for sampling and to pilot 2 little synths. The problem is >> that the SCSI disk connected to the Digidesign DSP/SCSI card won't work if >> the awe32 is plugged in (not even initialized or whatever... Just plugged >> in...). I've tried to change the IRQs and DMAs in all the possible ways >> without any success... Any clue ? >> >> Thanks >> >> fmotte@mindscape.com > >I had a similar problem with Session 8, Soundblaster 16 and a Motu Timepiece >II. Whenever I tried to start Session 8, Cubase Audio or the TP II setup, >Windows95 crashed. The final solution was to disable the FM synth on the >Soundblaster. Pretty strange, but it worked! > >Hope this helps a bit, > >Kai > Actually, my machine doesn't crash. What seems to happen is that all access to the SCSI disk are slowed down. While using Session8 or Cubase Audio, when I push the RECORD button, the record only starts 2 or 3 minutes later. The same problem occurs with DOS when using a simple DIR command, and with Win95 and Win3.1, regardless the machine it's ran on. Argh... Fred. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:45:17 -0500 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: James Snipes Subject: Can I Hard disk record ? I Would like to know if I can do harddisk Recording with my setup and what do you recomend. I have a 386SX 33mz, 1.2 Gig HD, Roland Scc-1 sound Card, SB-16 sound card! I would like to use Cakewalk Pro Audio or Turtle Beach Quad! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:43:15 EST Reply-To: STERN@MAIL.LOC.GOV Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List Comments: VIRTUAL WAVES? From: JOEL STERN Subject: VIRTUAL WAVES? Fred said: >Another _very_ powerful software to create sound, modify sounds, >sounds and so on, is Virtual Waves, by Fretless International. Could you say a bit more about this: what platform it runs on, what it is good at, where can I get it, etc... Thanks. Joel Stern stern@email.loc.gov j.stern11@genie.geis.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:57:52 GMT Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: "Eric Harnden (Ronin)" Subject: midi->audio excuse me if i've missed something, or if the technology has passed me by in a may that i am utterly ignorant of, but i believe that holly is laboring under an all-too-common misapprehension. midi is not audio. midi is control information. think of a player piano. the piano roll is the midi file, the holes punched in it the actual data. the only way to convert this information to another audio format (such as record it on tape) is to have the piano play it, then record the output of the piano... because the piano roll is not actually an audio format at all. similarly, to "convert" midi to audio, wave, aiff, or other file types means to have an instrument play under the control of the midi file and record its output. now, it also true that several modern digital audio editing systems blur this distinction pretty badly, allowing you to either edit midi data in the context of an audio editing system (treat the control information with the same editing tools you use on the actual waveform data), or conversely allow you to edit the audio information in the context of a midi sequencer (treat the sound bites like blocks of midi data). but midi is not audio, nor vice versa. any conversion requires an intermediate synthesis engine of some kind... something to *play* the midi data. savvy? <--- Entropy Always Wins, And I Like To Be On The Winning Side ---> Eric Harnden (Ronin) harnden@physics.american.edu (202)885-2746 http://physics.american.edu:8001/dka400/www/enh/enh-home.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:46:07 -0700 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: George Allaman Subject: Re: Can I Hard disk record ? In-Reply-To: <960111144516_113388912@emout05.mail.aol.com> On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, James Snipes wrote: > I Would like to know if I can do harddisk Recording with my setup and what > do you recomend. I have a 386SX 33mz, 1.2 Gig HD, Roland Scc-1 sound Card, > SB-16 sound card! I would like to use Cakewalk Pro Audio or Turtle Beach > Quad! I would like to know the same thing for a Pentium 75 with a 8MB RAM, 540 MB hard disk space, and a 16 bit Packard Bell Sound card, I think it's a 144. I am trying to decide whether or not to upgrade my Cakewalk Home Studio to Pro Audio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |George Allaman | | |Tech Writer | | |Alternate: georgea@csn.net | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:38:35 -0800 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Ron Hillman Subject: Re: Can I Hard disk record ? >I Would like to know if I can do harddisk Recording with my setup and what do >you recomend. >I have a 386SX 33mz, 1.2 Gig HD, Roland Scc-1 sound Card, SB-16 sound card! >I would like to use Cakewalk Pro Audio or Turtle Beach Quad! > >I think the Quad requires a 486dx40 you can check out Turtle Beach at the midifarm. www.midifarm.com RON HILLMAN ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 18:00:30 -0500 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Philip Reed Subject: ANUBIS Pro utility, Mac? Does anyone have this driver utility from Charismac Engineering for Mac? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:04:03 -0800 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Timothy Kelly Subject: Re: Can I Hard disk record ? You wrote: > >I Would like to know if I can do harddisk Recording with my setup and what do >you recomend. >I have a 386SX 33mz, 1.2 Gig HD, Roland Scc-1 sound Card, SB-16 sound card! >I would like to use Cakewalk Pro Audio or Turtle Beach Quad! > Hi, You dont have the hardware to use Cakewalk Audio or Quad. Cake Audio reguires a 486 and Quad requires a Turtle Beach board. If you upgrade your cpu with one of the 386 to 486 upgrade chips from Texas Instruments or Evergreen for about $80-$100 dollars, you may be able to use Musicator GS. But I would get a new computer instead or at least get a 486 motherboard. Your best bet is to get a used or new 486 Dx2 66, which can be found for $500 to $1000. Then you will have the hardware to use any daw software you want. Best you can do with what you have is a mono track with creative wave studio, maybe small stero samples if you have the sb16 asp chip. Happy Recording Timothy Kelly MidiVox ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:26:37 +0100 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Kai Schwirzke Subject: Re: Can I Hard disk record ? >I Would like to know if I can do harddisk Recording with my setup and what do >you recomend. >I have a 386SX 33mz, 1.2 Gig HD, Roland Scc-1 sound Card, SB-16 sound card! >I would like to use Cakewalk Pro Audio or Turtle Beach Quad! Sorry, but it seems you're not too well equipped for hd-recording :-(. First of all a 386SX processor won' t match the needs of modern audio-sequencing packages. If you should be lucky enough to get things (i.e. Cakewalk Pro Audio) started, you'll be pretty disappointed by your system's overall performance, to say the least. To make things worse, Turtle Beach's QUAD requires a Turtle Beach soundcard featuring their "Hurricane"-architecture (TB "Tahiti" for example). These boards "employ" their own DSP-chip (Motorola 56xxx) so they're fast enough to handle the huge amount of audio data without using too much power of the mainboard's cpu. Kai ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:00:39 -0500 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Alex Kharlamov Subject: Re: PC based simulations of >ps- anyone know of a program that allows the user to draw via mouse or >co-ordinates a wave-form for sampling? Oh yes -- Sound Forge. I've seen many editors/processors for both Mac and PC, and I think that Sound Forge (Win 3.1, 95 or NT) would probably be your best option for audio processing (incl. waveform graphic drawing) combined with transfering your waveforms to your sampler (it supports most common samplers except for ASR). Actually, I really recommend that you get a K2500S and a PC software for it, and you'll be all set for power sampling as we know it. Alex Kharlamov Planet House Music Corp. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:16:56 -0700 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Karl Petersen Subject: Re: midi->audio Comments: To: "Eric Harnden (Ronin)" In-Reply-To: <199601112056.PAA87295@atlanta.american.edu> On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Eric Harnden (Ronin) wrote: > midi is not audio. midi is control information. think of a player > piano. the piano roll is the midi file, the holes punched in it True enough, but don't tell the post office whose fourth-class rates on audio recordings still accomodates piano rolls and midi files. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:58:48 GMT Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: "J. Rossi" Subject: Guitar tabs and PC ? Hi, Is there for PC a shareware or freeware that print guitar tabs ? Any pointer appreciated. Francois Rossi jr10@le.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:40:07 -0300 Reply-To: srezende@eclac.cl Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Sidney Rezende Subject: from AIFF and/or WAV to MIDI Does anyone know whether there is an application that converts AIFF and/or WAV Files into MIDI??? If so, is it freeware, shareware or otherwise? Where could I get a hold of it??? Thanks in advance for any help. Sidney ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:31:18 -0500 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: ANUBIS Pro utility, Mac? Comments: To: synth-l@american.edu >Does anyone have this driver utility from Charismac Engineering for Mac? I believe you can buy this from a number of mail-order outlets. It is proprietary software. --- Joe M. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:32:22 -0800 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Tony Cappellini Subject: Music Quest PC Midi Card and Windows 95 Comments: To: synth-l@american.edu Does the Music Quest PC Midi card require a new driver for Windows 95 ? Thanks Tony ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 01:06:34 +0800 Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List From: Chong Poh Ng Subject: Re: Music Quest PC Midi Card and Windows 95 In-Reply-To: <199601130638.WAA14211@blob.best.net> It should be. If yours is not compatible with Win95, you can download from Opcode's Web site - www.opcode.com On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Tony Cappellini wrote: >Does the Music Quest PC Midi card require a new driver for Windows 95 ? > > >Thanks > > >Tony > Ng Chong Poh Para-DI(S) Pte. Ltd. paradi@singnet.com.sg Country Code (65), no area code. Tel : 538-6261 Mobile : 9-722-1801 Fax : 538-5009