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From: gtaylor@cornell.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: edit music
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 10:45:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 10:45:27 1984
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The music editor described in the BYTE article might wellllllll
be the Mockingbird, which was originally developed on a Xerox
DOrado (which we can ALLLLLL afford). It was interfaced with a
cheesy Yamaha e-piano, and wrote an approximate time-corrected
version of the score, which was then checked over (for staves, 
spacing, beaming, etc.

It will be interesting to watch this work, as many of the same
basic concepts about software design found on the Dorado appear
in some form on the Macintosh. I have already heard lovely rumours
from friends here and abroad that some music editors may be in
development soon for the Mac. It would certainly be cost effective,
to say the least. Probably we'd have to wait for more memory.

The Synclavier printer and editor is all it's cracked up to be
(I only wish we had it on the "no-heater, no whitewalls"
Synclavier I work on!). But SCRIPT per se as I remember it is
a more old-fashioned computer music language, consisting of 
instructions grouped like regular structured programming
instructions. To its credit, John Appleton and Co. have made
a decent, flexible, and useful version of that way of working
available.

gtaylor