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From: dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MIDI PC
Message-ID: <1163@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 88 18:43:41 GMT
References: <387@lscvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman)
Organization: AT&T Information Systems - Lincroft, NJ
Lines: 44
Keywords: MIDI PC software hardware

In article <387@lscvax.UUCP> ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes:
>... I have an IBM PC and I am looking to get some
>MIDI software and hardware. 
	If budget is the issue (or you just like to hack) there's a
	design for a MIDI board that's cheap and easy to build; see
	BYTE magazine, June '86.  Cost of parts is under $50, including
	the board.

	If compatibility with existing commercial software is the issue,
	you'll need to get something compatible with the Roland MPU-401;
	most commercial software for the PC assumes this board.  Costs in
	the $300s, I think.

>Also, I would like to hear some suggestions
>for a good sequencer to go along with it all. 
	The sequencer software on the BYTE BBS for its board isn't what
	I'd call "good", but it's workable, and there are a few of us
	improving it.

	Actually, there's a small community of hackers building or
	using the BYTE board, with a software "wish list" of things
	we'll make.  I know of 5 of us at AT&T, and two of us are
	already using the board (and the sequencer software) as we
	hack code for:
	   -	Improved sequencer software (Bill Chriss - incremental
		improvements, some already in use).
	   -	General-purpose I/O library (me - more than half done).
	   -	Patch editor/librarian (wish list, maybe my son will do it).
	   -	"Smart" performance aid (keyboard splits, MIDI reverb, etc)
		(wish list).
	   -	Visual (on-screen "sliders") real-time patch editor
		(wish list).

	If you like to hack as well as use music software, please join
	our "shop".  Actually, I'll make a separate posting (maybe next
	week) with a proposed  MIDI I/O interface that might make for
	portable MIDI applications.

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