Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!swatsun!swatsun!gessel From: gessel@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: MusicProse Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 91 16:15:01 GMT References: <156b02Bb05xw01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1029@eplunix.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.swarthmore.edu Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pa. Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: mrn@eplunix.UUCP's message of 6 Feb 91 21:12:35 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ilium In article <1029@eplunix.UUCP> mrn@eplunix.UUCP (Mark R. Nilsen) writes: [stuff deleted] >I agree with you completly that the NeXT has a great package at a >great price. To do what I want I need midi so add development time >for that. This means rewritting the harddisk recorder (the >companies that have written them won't sell source), then add midi >to that and 6 months later, if you really good, you can make music. >Also getting a Mac IIci still alows for future expantion. [stuff deleted] > --Mark. I'm just beginning to learn the MusicKit, and there is a Midi instrument. It's supposed to be able to play to the serial port and send midi signals. If you have the right conversion box (I heard a Mac one will work, but with the new serial port (RS423 instead of RS422), this may be true no longer), you can plug into a midi keyboard. I'm not sure, but I think it can also take input signals from the port, which you could send to a ScoreFile writer, and record the midi input that way. Some one who actually knows the MusicKit can jump in any time now . . . I think that the music capabilities of the NeXT are underutilized and underadvertised, and I hope it's remedied soon. (Music is one reason the OD's shouldn't be dropped IMHO, since they can record a substantial amount of high quality digital sound.) Dan -- Daniel Mark Gessel Independent NeXT Developer Internet: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu I do not speak (nor type) representing Swarthmore College.