[comp.music] NeXT vs. Mac

garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) (12/14/90)

In article <12958@milton.u.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:
>
>I would buy a NeXT TODAY if it had a powerful music package..
>NOT Music Prose.. but one that has the formatting power of
>FINALE and the user interface/sequencing power of NOTATOR...
>with easy ties into a DSP.  
>
>As another member of this group recently posted, i too am going
>to have to buy an overpriced mac.

This is so sad -- I have seen such a program ACTUALLY RUNNING.  In the 1990
ICMC Proceedings, Glendon Diener from Stanford describes a
program he wrote called Nutation, which does exactly this and more.  The
more? -- support for non-western music notation.  In fact, he demoed a piece
written in some Okinawan tablature system for voice and samisen, all then
synthesized on the NeXT DSP.  Relly interesting approach to representation,
too.

WHat happened to this program?  Dunno.  Hope that it hasn't gotten mired in
the licensing and distribution quagmire (yet another argument for PD
software...!)

Brad Garton
Columbia University Music Department
brad@woof.columbia.edu