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From: mike@sdcrdcf.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Summary of musical instrument techno - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 08:32:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 20 08:32:46 1983
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Reply-To: mike@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Michael Williams)
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	For my money, the best computer music system
	is still MIT's Music 11 running on the biggest
	machine with the most disk you can get.  This
	is not at all real time (on a 34, it took me
	11 hours to compute 60 seconds of string orchestra
	like sounds) but it's tremendously powerful
	and flexible (single, double, triple etc FM, 
	fixed waveform tables, comb, LP, resonating
	filters, reverberation, etc).  I also liked
	UCSD's C music, but haven't had much of a chance to 
	work with it.

	I have a friend who writes the software for the
	new Roland line of uP linked synthesizers and
	signal processors.  He's promised to give me
	some info to post soon.  The interface is call 
	"MIDI", and allows all devices with such an interface
	to be plugged in together, so for example they
	could all be controlled from one keyboard or
	synced to the same clock.  Apparently, there was
	a `summit' of synthesizer makers, at which this
	was agreed to be the standard interface for all
	manufacturers.

	I have also heard that the Synclavier 3 is a really
	hot box, but the last I heard, only about three
	people had one (Paul McCartney (sp?), Stevie Wonder,
	and a big producer for NBC commercials who does his
	the music himself).

	
	Mike Williams
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