rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (05/23/84)
With the advent of MIDI, expect more and more independent software to be written with just that purpose in mind---composing and editing music. The companies who are supporting MIDI (including, I think, New England Digital) fully expect many "build-it-from-scratch" types to create such software themselves for MIDI compatible systems. Roland has even published the specs on their MIDI interface controller, so that this can take place without having people break open their boxes. (I believe the Synclavier is or will be MIDI-compatible, and the Kurzweil will definitely be. <--what a piano sound!) [PLEASE POST FURTHER ARTICLES ON THIS AND OTHER GENERAL MUSIC TOPICS TO NET.MUSIC IN ADDITION TO/INSTEAD OF NET.MUSIC.CLASSICAL, SO THAT ALL MUSIC LOVERS MAY BENEFIT.] (Do you realize that the original intended purpose of the original newsgroup net.music [in some charter or other] was for discussion of computer applications in music?) -- "You are not scream. You are not I-scream!!!" Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (05/23/84)
Yep, the good dr. Rosen is once again dead on target. I got a copy of the MIDI specs, and they look really wonderful with the exception of the last page of the document I received: the dreaded "reserved system" listing of little prefacing codes for individual manufacturers: Only problem is, "WHAT ARE THEY??????" So far I've determined that the Yamaha DX series keyboards (which I'm looking into getting so I don't have to lean on the Synclavier at someone else's studio) don't understand the "unison" mode in the same way as everyone else (in digital you usually get a signal which is merely louder rather than thicker when you've got stuff in unison). It's not at all clear how the individual manufacturers will use the stuff for voice assignment, other keyboard tunings (it looks like you could do it by either begging Yamaha to burn you a prom or two or by hosing around with the microtonal possibilities provided that the sys allows you to individually do different bends on different notes in the "record" mode. g(angel trumpets, devil trombones...)taylor