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From: patrick@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Patrick Hawke)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: MIDI,LIGHTS,DISCO and COMPUTERS.
Message-ID: <1430003@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
Date: 1 Sep 89 15:01:56 GMT
References: <314@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
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Regarding MIDI to Light Conversion/Control:

  Look in the Aug. '87 issue of Keyboard Magazine.  Page 34 Contains an 
article on a MIDI Input Adapter for the Casio SK1.  This can be used success-
fully to control Lights via MIDI.  Granted, that it can only supply note
on - note off capability, but it's cheap.  For the homebrew hack this is
a nice periphial to build on.  Datastream the company that built the 
adapter has changed the design shortly after the article was published.
They have changed from the 8751 microcontroller to an 8031 and 2732A eprom
configuration, for reduced cost.  

 AS OF 1-6-88: Letter from Datastream
                           2555 Cumberland Parkway
                           Suite 280
                           Atlanta, Gerogia 30339
                           (404) 432-2002

 .... The MIDI modification kit for the Casio Sk-1 is priced at $59.95 plus
$3.00 shipping and handling.  At this time this kit is our only product ..

-End of Letter-

Another Idea: This could be used in combination with this or any other
MIDI to Light Controller.  In the August '89 issue of STart magazine, there
was a review of an interesting product called MIDI MAGIC.  "MIDI MAGICtm will
turn virtually any tape recorder into a device that will save, load, and play
MIDI Sequenes in real time."  I called the company and requested a catalog  
and found out that they also had several other products and MIDI "music" that
can be played on several computers or the MIDI MAGIC interface.  This was 
kind of like a Player Piano Scroll.  I don't have this product so I can't 
give any feedback on it's performance. 

Info: Micro-W Distributing Inc.
      1342B Route #23             MIDI MAGIC Cat. No. 97000  $149.95
      Butler, NJ 07405
      (201) 838-9027
                       

I hope there is some valuable information here for some of you.  If anybody
else has some Wild & Crazy Ideas for the DJ world I'd like to here from YOU.

-PjH
patrick@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com