mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309) (02/17/90)
This is a summary of responses to some questions I posted recently: I asked for a DX-7 (or other synth) midi sequence to (amiga) Deluxe Music Construction Set (DMCS) file format converter. I also asked how to access the MACFUN forum where some very good DMCS scores are apparently available. Finally, I asked where to get the amiga version of the CMU Midi Toolkit. Date: Sun, 11 Feb 90 02:02:35 PST From: cimshop!cimshop3!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David Masterson suggests: How hard would it be to get Soundscape (probably with some of the extra modules) and play the MIDI files through the DX-7, capture the MIDI information using Soundscape and save it in DMCS format? Not quite the scenario I'm looking for. I haven't got an rs232/midi converter yet (soon) and what I really wanted to do was have some of my more talented friends sequence something with their synths and give me the disk, allowing us to print it, play it back, edit it, etc. with amiga/DMCS. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:01:43 PST From: atkins@manta.nosc.mil (Hugh T. Atkins) The "MACFUN" forum referred to is available on CompuServe. I don't think it can be accessed via internet. However, it is Macintosh forum so the programs there would likely do you little good on an Amiga. CompuServe does have Amiga forums from which you might get the help you need. We're on the right track for question #2. My hope is that EA used the same file format for all DMCS products and that a binary image of the Mac files could be ftp'ed and imported into amiga DMCS. ...But is this stuff archived somewhere on the internet? From: dandb@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Dean Rubine) Date: 12 Feb 90 18:39:06 GMT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI >Does anyone know if Roger Dannenberg's CMU Midi Toolkit has been >ported over to the PC's? Someone else writes: >Now where can I find the amiga version??? I just talked to Roger, and here's the scoop. The original version was developed for PC's, and is still the only "official version", where official means, I gather, that the code does what the documentation says it does. Also, there are several (unofficial) versions avaliable, here's the complete list: Machine Compiler Person who did port IBM PC Lattice C Roger Dannenberg (official version) IBM PC Microsoft C 5.0 Hal Mukaino Mac Light Speed John Maloney Amiga Manx Jean-Christophe Dhellemmes Sorry, no Atari ST version. There are significant differences between each version. I know there's a multi-tasking Amiga version; I THINK that's the one being distributed. To order, make out a check out to "Carnegie-Mellon University" for $20, and send it to CMU-Midi Toolkit Studio for Creative Inquiry Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Specify which version (machine and compiler) you want. The $20 is just to cover CMU's cost for disks, copying documentation, mailing, etc. The stuff is public domain, so feel free to distribute it freely. Dean Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 19:46:11 EST From: Steven Abrams <abrams@division.cs.columbia.edu> According to Roger Dannenberg, the amiga version is available from g.gp.cs.cmu.edu for ftp -- look in the /usr/rdb/cmt/README first... Sounds good, but anonymous ftp users are not granted read permission on /usr/rdb/cmt/README at g.gp.cs.cmu.edu. Perhaps there's another host, or someone who will make this available??? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 15:55:52 -0500 From: cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) > Also, I've seen a lot of DMCS scores from ucsd.edu which are said to > have been converted to midi file format from DMCS. The reference says > they can from the "MACFUN" forum. Does anyone know where to find the > original DMCS files? Is "MACFUN" accessible via internet? These > scores look very good! I recently bought DMCS and would be interested in knowing more precisely where to find the scores you mention. For that matter, I'm interested in pointers to any sources of DMCS scores & instruments -----------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ available on the Internet. Me Toooo!!! The scores that I have are ftp'able from ucsd.edu (login: anonymous, password: your_login_name). I think its in the midi/scores or midi/dmcs subdirectory, but their all "*.mid" files, a format that I cannot seem to read with any tools that I have. Pointers, anyone? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 22:42:47 -0500 From: carl radens <cradens@uceng.UC.EDU> >From larry@pyr1.acs.udel.EDU Wed Nov 9 14:14:10 1988 Subject: YAMMO! - a DX7IIFD disk file manipulator (graciously submitted, uuencoded binary deleted - thanks Carl) Here's a uuencoded, arc'd copy of YAMMO!, the utility that lets you manipulate Yamaha DX7IIFD disk files on your MS-DOS computer that has 3.5", 720 K disk drives. The author firmly states that the utilities are in the public domain, and people who sell software or patches are NOT to include any of this package with their stuff. Here's a short description of the utilities: Three utilities to help manipulate DX7II files on MS-DOS computers. yammo! converts a DX7II formatted disk to be MS-DOS compatible. Writes a new BPB block on logical sector 0 and then makes all directory entries upper case and DOS digestable (no '*', '?', etc. in file names). yd shows all performances and voices within a CRT or INT file. all voices include a hex checksum to identify dupes. ys sorts a group of filenames (wildcards accepted) to be DX7II compatible - filename.i01, filename.i02, etc. Utilities are placed in the public domain, and are not to be used for commercial gain. Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 22:43:25 -0500 From: carl radens <cradens@uceng.UC.EDU> (yet another uuencoded binary deleted :- ) This uuencoded file below contains source and executable to take a blank initialized dx7ii patch bank (21k file) and splice-in two 4k binary 32 voice dx7 patch banks. Nice utilities for IBM compatibles. They may provide a circuitous route to where I want to be, but only after involving several different computers. Do such packages exist for the amiga? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ M. Scott Wills internet: mwills@rhino.ess.harris.com Mail Stop 102-4858 uucp: uunet!x102a!mwills Harris Corporation phone: 407-729-3283 Government Aerospace Systems Div. Bldg: 102 Room: 3426 P.O. Box 94000 Melbourne, FL 32902 ------------------------------------------------------------------------