info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (07/06/84)
From: imagen!cpr@su-shasta.arpa -- Has anyone heard any rumors about hardware and software to compose and edit digital music on the Mac, along the lines of the Alpha Syntauri and Passport Designs systems? How about an AppleBus<->MIDI gateway? --Chris Ryland
info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (07/06/84)
From: chavez@harvard.ARPA (Tania Mirales) From the July/August issue of \\Macworld//, p. 28: "Imagine composing on a musical keyboard and minutes later printing the score of your latest work. Performer, a program currently under development by Mark of the Unicorn of Cambridge, Massachusetts, translates music created on keyboards into sheet music... "With Performer, musicians can enter musical notation directly from the keyboard. Mark of the Unicorn will release Performer when musical keyboards such as Korg, Casio, and Poly 800, equipped with MIDI (musical instrument digital interface), become available for the Mac. Using such a musical keyboard, a Mac, and Mark of the Unicorn's software, musicians will have for a cost of about $5000 the capability of systems that are ten times as expensive...." There we go again with Macworld's breathless praise. I'm interested in the subject myself and haven't been able to find any more specific details. Are any keyboard manufacturers listening?