tholome@portia.Stanford.EDU (Eric THOLOME) (01/30/91)
First of all, many thanks again to all of you who have replied to my request
about a possible translation in English of my French book about MIDI.
If you haven't replied yet but feel like doing it, you're very welcome to do so.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to next page to have a look at my
original posting...
I've tried to answer to everybody, but I haven't been able to reach everyone
by E-mail though. Therefore, I'm posting now more detailed information
some of you requested:
Title: "MIDI a votre portee"
Author: Eric THOLOME
Publisher: Editions RADIO
11, rue Gossin
92543 MONTROUGE
FRANCE
Tel: 33 1 46 56 52 66
Fax: 33 1 40 92 65 97
ISBN number: 2 7091 1114 4
Price (France): 165 FF
Next page: original posting...
Every week, I see a posting looking like this: "Hi I'm new in MIDI stuff. Can
someone help me ?". Boy, what can we do for this poor guy ??? Well, I've tried
to help those guys. How ? I've written a book about MIDI. DON'T STOP READING,
THIS IS NO ADVERTISEMENT... This book is in French, my native language. Well,
if you can read French, you can buy it ! But I (and my publisher) would be very
interested in knowing whether you all would be interested in an English (or Spanish, or ...) tranlation of this book. This is what it's all about:
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T R A N S L A T I O N F R O M F R E N C H
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MIDI for everybody!
FIRST PART: Understanding MIDI
Ch 1: Electronic music and the different ways of synthetising a sound
Ch 2: How does an interface operate
Ch 3: MIDI interface
Ch 4: MIDI history
Ch 5: MIDI protocol
SECOND PART: Using MIDI
Ch 6: MIDI instruments
Ch 7: MIDI computers (ATARI, APPLE, IBM, COMMODORE, ...)
Ch 8: MIDI software
Ch 9: MIDI tools (hardware)
Ch 10: MIDI programming
Ch 11: MIDI market and its evolutions
Ch 12: MIDI future ?
APPENDIXES:
1 - Institutes dealing with MIDI
2 - Note/Frequency look up table
3 - Binary/decimal/hexadecimal/MIDI look up table
4 - Manufacturers MIDI ID
5 - Computer science unit system
6 - MIDI Shows around the world
7 - Addresses you must know...
8 - Bibliography
INDEX - 192 pages
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If you think you would buy such a book (for a reasonnable price of course),
provided that it's in your language, please write to:
Editions RADIO
"MIDI a votre portee"
11, rue Gossin
92543 MONTROUGE
FRANCE
and indicate your language, your main interests, ...
If you don't feel like writing, you can always E-mail to me.
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Eric THOLOME tholome@isl.stanford.edu
Stanford University
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