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From: hafer@tubsibr.uucp (Udo Hafermann)
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Subject: Re: Help needed on MIDI programming!
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Date: 26 Sep 89 13:41:31 GMT
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wcc@omaha1.UUCP (William C Carey) writes:


>Is anyone out there familiar with a book called "CYBERNETIC MUSIC"
>[...] ?  Doesn't the Atari ST offer some sort of APL interpreter?
>Could it (the APL interpreter) possibly communicate directly with the
>MIDI port?

There is APL.68000 from MicroAPL in London (distibuted in the US by
Spencer, I believe), which is a good "first-generation" interpreter.
You can read and write data using the MIDI ports quite simply.
Unfortunately, APL.68000 isn't fast enough for real-time music
applications.  You'd have to write machine-language or C code for
that.

>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.

I'd be interested in that book.  Any details how to get it?