[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Sound-Letter #4

komatsu@alcor.usc.edu (Sound-List4) (03/04/91)

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            The 
              Sound
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                  Newsletter

Volume 1  #4  March 3, 1991                   (P)
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Note from the Editor
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Sorry for the delay in this fourth edition.  Our mailing list has grown
to over 500 people and we also had problems losing one of our primary
sites.  I hope to keep this newsletter monthly.  This one is particularly
long.  I have also made some formatting changes that should make it
easier to read.  I hope you enjoy the changes and feel free to comment.

For those of you who subscribed prior to March 1 and did not receive this
by e-mail it means that the address you send us bounced.  Please send
an alternate address.

-----> Dave

In this issue
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o Do you want to announce a new product?
o Sound Bits: A look at 3 new products 
o Midi Information
o An interactive session featuring ROGUE
o Anonymous FTP sound Sites
o How to join the sound list
o List of MIDI Bulletin boards 

 
Do you want to announce a new product?
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   If you have written a sound releated program that is SHAREWARE,
   FREEWARE, or PUBLIC DOMAIN and would like to announce your program
   to the world contact us.  In addition to an announcement on the
   sound-letter we will also see that your program is uploaded to
   ROGUE for international access!  And best of all its F-R-E-E.

   If you are a commerical company want to advertise your product in the
   Sound Newsletter, please contact Playmac Technologies for further
   information. 

   If you wish for us to describe or evaluate your product, please
   contact us for further information.

   Why?

   o Our readers are interested in the latest developments in the
     sound field and by allows announcements of this sort we help
     these people find the programs
   o The sound-list is mailed via e-mail to over 500 individuals
     around the world who have personally requested this info.
   o We are also posted on USENET that has a potential audience
     of several hundred thousand.


Sound Bits
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*****

Playmac Technologies annouces an upgrade of Playmac v2.00 to Playmac
v2.10. In this version, longer data files are supported. 

If you are running out of memory with your data files, Playmac
Technologies advises you to upgrade. If you are not encountering
problems with your data files, upgrading is not necessary.

Playmac v2.10 supports the following:
    o Organization of sound files (SND Files)
    o Floppy and Hard Disk support
    o DOS 3.2, 3.3 and DOS 4.0 support
    o Ability to process longer Playmac data files

*****

FMSOUND.ZIP (Found on Rogue)

This is the Windows 3.0 sound program that supports 35 instruments but
only supports ROL (Roland) files on a computer with a Sound Blaster.
It plays in the background and requires very little overhead. Very
friendly to use and comes with an instrument editor.

*****

JMPLAYER (Found on Rogue)

This plays trakblaster and Amiga modules. It requires a little
programming to make the program files, but from the samples included,
it doesn't require any complicated programming. Contains a real time
spectrum analyzer and allows files of over 440K. It also has a digital
track and module display. Playback quality is not perfect, but of very
good quality. A few instruments are not supported, but are really not
that necessary. Leeched Holland I believe.

*****

 
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MIDI BBS's 
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In the past we have received numerous requests for MIDI information and
locating of MIDI programs and support.  Thanks to Eddie Anthony
(aa588@cleveland.freenet.edu) we now have a list of nationwide BBS
numbers you can call.  This list is provided for you benefit at the
end of this newsletter.


An Interactive session with ROGUE
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Please note that ROGUE is an independent site run by Michael Minakami
and is not a part of Playmac Technologies.  All administrative information
should be send to Mike.  
****

Many of you have questioned how to log into Rogue.  This site is 
different from many sites and by far has the largest sound file
and program collections.  Below is a sample session on how to connect
with rogue.  If your machine does not take the kfps-roble6-dynamic line
then simply 'finger minakami@neon.stanford.edu' This account will have
the current IP#.  The IP# floats within a range depending on outside
variables and we have not been able to stabalize it as of yet.

Script started on Wed Feb 13 23:37:53 1991
alcor.usc.edu(1): ftp kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu
ftp: connect to address 36.80.0.138: Connection refused
Trying 36.80.0.139...
ftp: connect to address 36.80.0.139: Connection refused
Trying 36.80.0.140...
ftp: connect to address 36.80.0.140: Connection refused
Trying 36.80.0.141...
Connected to kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu.
220 rogue.stanford.edu FTP version 900418 (LocalTalk.01) ready at Fri Feb 08 11:36:15 1991
Name (kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu:komatsu): anonymous
331 Enter PASS command
Password:   [enter your e-mail address as password]
230 Logged in
ftp> dir
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for LIST /pub
anim/                    0:31 12/09/90   foreign/                11:25  2/01/91
images/                 23:35 11/08/90   msdos/                   0:06 11/09/90
rogue-in.fo       2,832  0:21  2/03/91   sound/                  23:37 11/08/90
sounds/                  0:02 12/11/90   speech/                 16:10 11/23/90
upload/                  1:07 11/09/90   
9 files. 154,370,048 bytes free. Disk size 354,746,368 bytes.
226 File sent OK
431 bytes received in 0.4 seconds (1.1 Kbytes/s)
ftp> cd sound
257 "/pub/sound" is current directory
ftp> dir
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for LIST /pub/sound
cmf/                    17:48 11/23/90   noistrkr/               23:37 11/08/90
rol/                    17:32 11/23/90   scrmtrkr/               16:57 11/23/90
snd/                    23:38 11/08/90   
5 files. 154,370,048 bytes free. Disk size 354,746,368 bytes.
226 File sent OK
ftp> cd scrmtrkr
257 "/pub/sound/scrmtrkr" is current directory
ftp> dir
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for LIST /pub/sound/scrmtrkr
acidlamb.zip    133,861 17:08 11/23/90   aface.zip        75,135 17:08 11/23/90
blackh.zip       44,588 17:08 11/23/90   brain.zip        45,264 17:07 11/23/90
cappower.zip    100,390 17:07 11/23/90   chrush.zip      113,847 17:08 11/23/90
cool.zip         65,505 17:03 11/23/90   cream.zip        96,017 17:03 11/23/90
digital.zip      65,106 17:03 11/23/90   discopre.zip     30,181 17:03 11/23/90
dream.zip        84,185 17:03 11/23/90   dream1.zip      106,319 17:03 11/23/90
dstar-bo.zip     50,684 20:55  1/09/91   ecc21.zip        49,848 17:03 11/23/90
electro.zip      93,377 17:04 11/23/90   flphouse.zip    195,420 20:56  1/09/91
funkdina.zip    160,399 20:56  1/09/91   getup.zip        97,705 17:04 11/23/90
hlrunner.zip     75,511 20:56  1/09/91   ice-t.zip        22,798 13:18 11/25/90
ivfallen.zip    165,616 20:57  1/09/91   justice.zip      48,978 17:04 11/23/90
kefrens.zip      70,751 17:04 11/23/90   labyrint.zip     93,662 17:04 11/23/90
lambada.zip      51,552 17:04 11/23/90   lngslide.zip    108,233 20:56  1/09/91
mickey.zip       53,253 17:05 11/23/90   peats.zip        78,940 17:05 11/23/90
polar.zip        81,310 17:05 11/23/90   poseidon.zip     94,712 17:05 11/23/90
preludi.zip      19,757 17:05 11/23/90   punchsma.zip     64,296 17:05 11/23/90
raa.zip          56,590 20:55  1/09/91   razor.zip        56,731 17:06 11/23/90
rmixbyst.zip     62,969 17:06 11/23/90   rocknrol.zip     33,193 17:06 11/23/90
rotate.zip       42,462 17:06 11/23/90   rungtlet.zip     87,542 20:57  1/09/91
softsynt.zip     81,291 20:57  1/09/91   syksav.zip       53,064 17:06 11/23/90
tarzan.zip       53,206 17:06 11/23/90   themodel.zip     53,248 17:06 11/23/90
travmnd3.zip     57,867 20:57  1/09/91   trial.zip        73,317 17:06 11/23/90
wastelan.zip     80,948 17:07 11/23/90   watch.zip        82,116 17:07 11/23/90
whoknows.zip     75,926 17:07 11/23/90   
47 files. 139,927,552 bytes free. Disk size 354,746,368 bytes.
226 File sent OK
1971 bytes received in 0.86 seconds (2.2 Kbytes/s)
ftp> tenex  [this is for a binary transfer]
200 Type 8 OK
ftp> get preludi.zip
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for RETR /pub/sound/scrmtrkr/preludi.zip
226 File sent OK
local: preludi.zip remote: preludi.zip
19757 bytes received in 3.8 seconds (5.1 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye!
alcor.usc.edu(3):exit
alcor.usc.edu(4):
script done on Thu Feb  7 23:39:11 1991

 
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Anonymous Sound FTP SITES
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To connect to an anonymous FTP site do the following (we are using the
sound-site as an example)

ftp ccb.ucsf.edu     or    ftp 128.218.1.13
name: anonymous
password: <email-address>


If you know of any other Sound ftp sites please forward the information
this way.  If you know the administrators of the below sound sites or
you are in charge of one of the below sound sites please e-mail me so
we can join efforts.  Your input to this sound-list would be greatly
appreciated.
 
Name                    IP#             What
abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov   128.155.23.64   amiga sounds
ccb.ucsf.edu            128.218.1.13    (.snd), players.   Pub/Sound_list
chyde.uwasa.fi                          Scream Tracker files
ems.media.mit.edu       18.99.99.99     csound
neon.stanford.edu       36.80.0.138     sounds for soundblaster
ROGUE (See below)
rtag.ee.lbl.gov         128.3.254.68    sounds          sounds/*.au
sciences.sdsu.edu       130.191.224.2   sounds
sumex-aim.stanford.edu                  (.snd) files
terminator.cc.umich.edu 141.211.164.8   sounds and misc archive site
ucsd.edu                128.54.16.1     sounds for sparc
xanth.cs.odu.edu        128.82.8.1      startrek sounds pub/star-trek/stsounds.
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil                  Sound players
XXX                     131.123.2.50    sounds for sound blaster


kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu       gifs, sounds, various ms



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Appendix 1: List of MIDI BBS's 

BBS Name			City			     Number
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AV-Sync 		     Atlanta, GA	       404-320-6202
Alert Data OPUS 	     Greensboro, NC	       919-274-7000
Atlanta's IEMUG              Atlanta, GA               404-942-3387
Condor Electronics BBS	     Mansfield, MA	       508-261-9808
Dr. T's                      Boston, MA                617-739-2366
Dwight School BBS	     New York City, NY	       212-879-2625
East Coast MIDI 	     New York		       516-928-4986
Eniac-MIDI		     Rockville, MD	       301-460-9134
House of Minus		     Denton, TX 	       817-565-1500
Iconnex MIDI BBS	     Chicago, IL	       815-452-2773
Illusion BBS		     Ocala, FL		       904-867-8411
IEMUG BBS		     NYC, NY		       212-879-2625
Joel Sampson's Engineering   Dallas, TX                214-328-6909
Larry's Shareware            Massachusetts             413-783-3199
Mackintosh Users at Berklee  Boston, MA 	       617-739-2366
MIDI & ST Exchange	     Columbus, OH	       614-848-5947
MIDI 'n Music                Irvine, CA                714-552-3036
MIDI-Thru		     Baltimore, MD	       301-384-0351
MIDIline		     Baltimore, MD	       301-882-7734
MIDImaze BBS		     Chattanooga, TN	       615-877-5528
Midwest ADLIB User's BBS     Ohio                      513-746-5863
MidWest MIDI BBS	     Oklahoma City, OK	       405-733-3102
MIDI World Network	     Los Angeles, CA	       213-841-0347
MIDIum BBS		     Los Angeles, CA	       818-764-4538
Music Quest BBS 	     Dallas, TX 	       214-881-7311
Musicians Den		     Phoenix, AZ	       602-864-0244
Musicnet		     Washington, DC	       301-946-6796
Photostar BBS		     Richmond, VA	       703-774-4667
Power Station BBS	     Vallejo, CA	       707-642-0824
San Francisco MIDI Users     San Francisco, CA	       415-771-1788
Snarfs Music Studio	     Chicago, IL	       708-351-0288
Sound Management Music	     Chicago, IL	       708-949-6434
Southern New England & MIDI  Bridgeport, CT	       203-377-6758
Sysport MIDI BBS	     San Diego, CA	       619-698-7155
Taste BBS		     Brooklyn, NY	       718-252-4529
Telecommuter's Express BBS   Huntington Bch, CA        213-863-3742
The Art's Rap                Rochester, NY             716-223-7874
The Attic		     Herndon, VA	       703-742-4056
The Doctor's Office BBS      New York, NY              212-662-8597
The Dungeon		     New Orleans, LA	       504-282-5753
Video-Pro		     Virginia		       703-455-1873
Washington MIDI Users Group  Washington, DC	       703-532-7860
Yamaha C1 BBS		     Los Angeles, CA	       714-522-9464



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