nivek@cmu-ri-rover.ARPA (Kevin Dowling) (08/05/85)
The latest issue of the IMA (International MIDI Association) has an article on MIDI for the Macintosh. I've condensed and organized the article here into a more easily read form by companies, product descripion, availability, addresses and numbers. No prices listed. The first software for this has unveiled at the New Orleans NAMM (National Assocation of Music Merchants) Show. Passport Designs They are working on adding MIDI to the Concertware program from Great Wave software. Software will run on Digidesign/ Assimilation interface (Discussed in a past issue of IMA Bulletin) No release date announced at press time. Passport Designs 625 Miramontes St. Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 (415) 726-0280 Mimetics Planning on releasing Macromind's MIDI version of Hayden's MusicWorks. Program has MIDI-out function using either the Assimulation or the Opcode interface. Pieces created with Musicworks can then be played on various instruments. PO Box 60238, Sta. A Palo Alto, CA 94306 (408) 741-0117 Mark of the Unicorn MIDI version of Professional Composer called Professional Performer. No release date announced. Though at the beginning of the summer they said late summer or early fall when I talked to someone from the company. 222 Third St. Cambridge, MA 02142 (617) 576-2760 Opcode Systems MIDIMac interface box. Sequencer can record up to 26 sequences of ten tracks each. Includes loop, transpose and track mute, multinote transposition, chaining sequences, split keyboard transposition, ... internal or external sync, and a random note generator. Offering patch librarians for Oberheim OB-8, Yamaha DX-7, Casio-101,CZ-1000, Roland Juno-106/JX-8P. Available now. 1040 Ramona Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 (415) 321-8977 Southworth Music Systems Actually demonstrating their Total Music package. Capable of recording in real-time, step time, or entering notes via the Mac. With the Mac you can put notes on a standard Grand Staff or by using bar-graph notation. Pitch being vertical axis and duration is the horizontal axis. Runs on Southworth's own interface that has 4 MIDI-out ports and two independent MIDI-in ports. 99 tracks available each with 16 MIDI channels. Tracks can be chained. Editing with resolution of 1.25ms, cut/paste/merge, ...., internal metronome, and external sync (MIDI and tape). Also has music transcription capabilities. August 1 release date. Box 275, R.D. 1 Harvard, MA 01451 (617) 497-7522 Musicworks DX/TX Librarian: patch librarian for DX7/9 and TX modules. MegaTrack: Sequencer. Note capacities of up to 72K notes in addition to access to 32 MIDI channels (via 2 16-channel MIDI-outs). Doesn't support transcription but MIDIWorks does. MIDIWorks: conversion program that enables sequences created on one program to be converted to another program's file format. Conversion for Hayden's Musciworks, Great Waves Concertware, Mark of the Unicorn's Professional Composer into the MegaTrack file format. Pretty neat. MacMIDI Star: MIDI interface with star-network configuration of MIDI output ports. MacMIDI 32: A-B configuration using 2 separate MIDI buses to acheive 32 MIDI channels. MacMIDI Sync: upgrade of MacMIDI 32 with Drum, FSK, and Kodak Slide projector sync. MacMIDI SMPTE: upgrade to MacMIDI sync that includes a SMPTE interface. Librarians were running at the show, but no release date on the rest of the stuff. 18 Haviland Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-2886 Assimulation: MIDI Conductor Macintosh: release July 15 $89 list price. Assimulation (800) MAC-5464 in CA (800) 421-0243 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The IMA will be distributing the MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification Document created by the Japan MIDI Standards Committee and the MMA (MIDI Manfacturers Association) Includes: -MIDI 1.0 Specification (same as you get when you join the IMA) -Detailed Explanation of the Spec. -Instructions for creating a standard MIDI implementation chart. Available mid August. $30 + (P&H) IMA members $35 + (P&H) non-members IMA offices: 11857 Hartsook St. North Hollywood, CA 91607 (818) 505-8964 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ nivek Aka : Kevin Dowling Bell: (412) 578-8830 Arpa: nivek@cmu-ri-rover Mail: Robotics Institute Schenley Park Pgh, PA 15213