knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen) (03/08/88)
I have decided to go "freeware" on the CURRENT VERSION
(later versions may go commercial) of my CoCo graphics music score
editor and MIDI player for OS9.
UltiMusE (or UME, Ultimate Music Editor -- modest eh?) lets you draw
sheet music with the mouse or joystick and play it on one or more
MIDI synthesizers. No other hardware is needed except a cheap
home-made cable from the serial RS232 Port. UME also plays thru
the Speech System's MIDI Pak if you have it.
This version requires Coco 3, OS9 Level 2, and probably will
work in 128K.
If you've heard of Lyra (see any Speech Systems Rainbow ad),
well, UME is the same idea, except UME is easier to use because it:
--supports up to 16 parts or voices
--spread over one to four staves (staffs)
--lets you mouse-edit any part's notes at any time
--initializes with a timing grid of rests, so you can write notes
anywhere, any time in the score
--uses STANDARD NOTATION for Repeats, 1st-2nd-...-Nth endings,
DC, DS al Segno, and Coda.
--has a 7-octave pitch range; over 4 octaves on each staff
--ledger lines, double-dotted notes
--Fully compatible with OS9 multi-tasking and windows;
includes "shell escape" to OS9. Uses good old 32x16 /TERM.
--$55 cheaper than Lyra
--Includes docs files to print, and several music score files
To get it, either download frm Delphi (and maybe CIS).
Or send a self-addressed stamped envelope with a blank
floppy disk (the envelope must be able to protect the disk) to:
Micheal J. Knudsen
1411 E. Wakeman Ave.
Wheaton, IL 60187
Note this is NOT public domain; redistribution is encouraged,
but not permitted for profit. For now the source code remains
my trade secret. Disassembler types are warned that this is
compiled C code, you'll never make it....
--
Mike J Knudsen ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen Bell Labs(AT&T)
Delphi: RAGTIMER CIS: <memory failure, too many digits>
"Just say NO to MS-DOS!" "OS/2 == 1/2 of an OS"