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From: wcc@omaha1.UUCP (William C Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Help needed on MIDI programming!
Summary: JAXITRON
	 APL for ATARI ST
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Date: 23 Sep 89 02:24:22 GMT
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Is anyone out there familiar with a book called "CYBERNETIC MUSIC" by
someone calling him/her self Jaxitron (pronounced jazzy-tron perhaps?)?
It contains a wide ranging study of music producing algorithms written in
APL.

Doesn't the Atari ST offer some sort of APL interpreter?

Could it (the APL interpreter) possibly communicate directly with the MIDI port?

All of the examples in the book ( 300+ pages) were designed to print out
a type of music notation on a line printer which someone then converted to
conventional sheet music notation.  The copyright is 1979 I believe, well in
advance of Postscript, MIDI, and so forth.