Xref: utzoo comp.music:121 rec.music.synth:9190 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!infbs!tubsibr!hafer From: hafer@tubsibr.uucp (Udo Hafermann) Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.synth Subject: Re: Help needed on MIDI programming! Message-ID: <1989Sep26.134131.15302@tubsibr.uucp> Date: 26 Sep 89 13:41:31 GMT References: <15724@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <164@omaha1.UUCP> Sender: hafer@tubsibr.uucp (Udo Hafermann) Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 22 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?