mark@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Jansen) (10/06/90)
I am aware that there is a lot of public ftp software available to do computer music on the NeXT machine. I would appreciate someone that has had the experience of doing this to tell us where they got the software, and any major difficulties in installation and use. If people only have pieces of the puzzle thats OK too. Lets see whats available. Thanks -- Mark Jansen, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277 mark@cis.ohio-state.edu
cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose) (10/06/90)
In article <84456@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mark@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Jansen) writes: > > I am aware that there is a lot of public ftp software available to >do computer music on the NeXT machine. I would appreciate someone that has >had the experience of doing this to tell us where they got the software, >and any major difficulties in installation and use. If people only have >pieces of the puzzle thats OK too. Lets see whats available. I would appreciate any other information about computer music software for the NeXT also! Here is what I know: CARL software distribution cmusic, pvoc, pv (phase vocoders) no ftp access cost $250 :( CME (Center for Music Experiment) UC San Diego frm@plexus.ucsd.edu sfl@carl.ucsd.edu This is not free. You even have to provide your own optical disk. I paid my $250 grudgingly considering the fact that I installed much of this software myself at UCSD. They can be vultures. csound software (mit) ftp access! free! ems.ai.mit.edu (anonymous) This is the standard UNIX distribution of csound. I actually prefer this version as Pete's requires elaborate work directories that I find difficult to manage. Csound is extremely useful and quick to code with a little experience. And it is free. NeXT (C)sound, LPC ftp access! free! uvaarpa.acc.virginia.edu (anonymous) pmy@uvaarpa.acc.virginia.edu Pete has written some NeXTstep interfaces to csound and princeton's LPC routines. I prefer the standard shell interface to csound; however, you may like the NeXTstep interface instead. Also, Pete is a cool guy and I'm glad he is writing music applications. I use his LPC interface. You might find some other useful stuff there too. princeton's cmix! ftp access! free! princeton.princeton.edu (anonymous) princeton.edu paul@winnie.princeton.edu This software is very useful! I haven't made a major computer music piece without it. You can grab both a BSD UNIX version and the NeXT version here. Paul Lansky is also super cool, and he might be able to help you with snags. Don't abuse his help though, we wouldn't want people like him to disappear. Lisp Kernel ftp access! free! akbar.acs.washington.edu (???) My mind is fuzzy about this one. I haven't installed it yet, because I am waiting to install Common Music first. I think I found it on akbar but you can try blake.acs.washington.edu also. The Lisp Kernel (I believe) is a music kit interface and composition tool within Franz Lisp. Common Music ftp access soon free! hkt@ccrma.stanford.edu This is another lisp interface with some potentially interesting data abstraction functions. Henrich Taube is a very very busy guy, and he is really generous for his efforts to make this code available. It may be available next week on some stanford machine (they think that they really need ftp access, too bad UCSD doesn't consider this). neato-kludgy signal processors no ftp access :( free! cpenrose@ucsd.edu esosun!jesus!penrose@seismo.css.gov I write alot of audio DSP code for my pieces. I have some particularly interesting filter programs: FFT based window filter processor, Phase vocoder based interpolators and dynamic (time-varying) filters. I haven't done it yet, but I am planning upon a compressor. All this code is available, just send me mail. I don't like to use the 56001 for signal processing, in most of my cases floating point DSP takes longer on the 56001. Also, I can't play soundfiles while the 56001 is at work. Christopher Penrose