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From: ajohnston@trillium.uwaterloo.ca (Andrew Johnston)
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Subject: Re: MIDI Manager programmers - anybody home?
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Date: 23 Nov 90 13:53:09 GMT
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 I am writing a music analysis/sythesis program as part of a course I am taking.
My program uses Markovian analysis to create a 'table' of conditional 
probabilities for the occurrences of pitches and durations, based on the
input of a piece of music. Markovian synthesis is used to generate a new piece
of music based on the probability table.

 Right now, the input/output process for the music is really messy. I am writing
the program on a Macintosh, and I have access to a Mac with a MIDI interface
and equipment. I was thinking about using MIDI as a method of input/output. It
would be much cleaner. I was hoping not to have to read/write MIDI data directly
to/from the hardware. Now I hear of the MIDI Manager. That would make my life
so much easier!!

  Please post more information about the MIDI Manager, and any advice on how I
might go about finding/using it would be most welcome.

 Thanks,

Andrew T. Johnston

ajohnston@trillium.waterloo.edu