daver@boa.gatech.edu (David Rosenbaum) (08/29/90)
I'm working on a survey of computer music systems. I'm especially interested in a) those that have been parallelized or are good candidates for parallelization; b) those having real-time capabilities; and c) those that are interesting in some way from an operating system point of view (e.g. FORMULA, which incorporates some interesting concepts in process scheduling). Any references would be greatly appreciated; I'll summarize and post the results. Thanks in advance, David Rosenbaum daver@cc.gatech.edu
alfordr@musicbox.EBay.Sun.COM (Ronald Alford) (08/29/90)
I'm very much interested in your results. I've attempted to find a
single system that would handle the Csound library, including phase-
vocodor, fm, and sample editing (or resynthesis, etc.) such that I
could manipulate everything for live performance. Since it seems
that your request might dig such possibilities out of the woodwork,
or that you may find someone who has something cooking in that direction,
I am anxious to hear of the results you receive.
NeXT has many of the possibilities, with a DSP built in, and an after-
market digitizer that gets to the 16-bit input. But, its tools to
handle other aspects of such a system as I want are not yet available.
A lot of other systems on the market are becoming available to
digitally record several tracks, and manipulate that data for
purposes of sync with SMPTE, etc. Several of these are designed
around the IBM/PC 286 or 386 architecture. They've been advertised
in Computer Music Journal also.
I believe Atari ST's use the ADAP I and II systems from Hybrid Arts
for much the same purposes. I have heard only rumors that someone
may do other software for that system.
Then there's the DigiDesign system for the Mac II. I know about it
only what I read in magazines. It was't demonstrated at MacWorld
in San Francisco, meaning they thought it unlikely that a potential
customer would attend that show. I don't know where I could see a
demonstration aside from arriving at their door in Menlo Park and
demanding a personal view.
Let me know if you find anything exciting.
ron
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