Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!eos!phil
From: phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sequencers
Summary: Check out HMSL
Keywords: Music-X, Dr.Ts, SoundScape, HMSL
Message-ID: <2576@eos.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 20:38:11 GMT
References: <90@ssibbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <90@ssibbs.UUCP> afraser@ssibbs.UUCP (Alex Fraser) writes:
      <asks about real-time controllable MIDI sequencers>
>Perhaps I should look in the direction of HMSL (which I have heard has been
>ported to the amiga)?

You would do well to check out HMSL, if you don't mind putting in some
effort to learn it - it's a very powerful, and therefore complex, music
specification language (not just a sequencer by any means).  You should
know something about FORTH, since it is written in an object-oriented
flavor of JFORTH.

It was written on the Amiga *originally* and ported to the Mac.  Not to
pick nits, but much of its power comes from the programmer's (Phil Burk)
virtuosity on the Amiga.

Contact Frog Peak Music for details.  I don't have the address, but a call
to the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, CA, should
net you the address.  Phone:  (415) 430-2191.

Disclaimer:  I'm an alumnus and former employee of Mills College, but my palms
won't get greased if you buy HMSL.  Check it out and decide for yourself.

		Phil Stone	 (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov  OR  phil@eos.UUCP)