Electronic and Computer Music FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about Electronic and Computer Music.
This FAQ about Electronic and Computer Music
was compiled and written by Craig Latta Craig.Latta@NetJam.ORG
with numerous contributions by others.
- 0.1) How can I browse ftp sites and their data without using my own disk space (unless I want to keep data), and locate files on ftp sites, given pathname fragments?
- There is a set of Emacs-Lisp (elisp) code, ...
- 0.2) What other FAQs might be of interest? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 0.3) How do I ask for advice on a topic of interest from others on the Net?
- 0.4) What are the future plans for your FAQs? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 1.1) What keyboard should I buy? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 1.2) Where can I get patches for my keyboard? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 1.3) What is MIDI?
- 1.4) What are definitions for the following things? - aftertouch, envelope, FM, LFO, module, multitimbral, polyphony, pressure, sampler, sequencer, synthesizer, velocity
- 1.5) Where can I get price lists? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 1.6) Where can I get a USA music store list? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 2.1.1) What is Netjam?
- 2.1.2) How do I subscribe to EMUSIC-D and EMUSIC-L, and what other BITNET lists are of interest?
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- 2.1.3) What are some other emailing lists relating to electronic and computer music?
- 2.1.4) How do I contact the editorial staff of Electronic Musician magazine?
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- 2.1.5) Is there a group for Roland U20 and U220 synthesizer users?
- 2.1.6) What Yamaha synthesizer groups are there?
- 2.2.1) What are some other midi-file/software archives on the Internet?
- 2.2.2) Is there a archive for the K2000 synthesizer?
- 2.3.1) What constitutes a CD master? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- From: kls30@cd.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.music, rec.audio.pro, rec.music....
- 2.3.2) Who and how much? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 2.4) How do I transfer patches, data files, MFF files from a Mac to a PC and back? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.1.1) What is Smallmusic? What is the MODE? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.1.3.2) Which glove interfaces with the Max 'glove' object? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.1.4) What is DMIX and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.2.3) What is MusicTeX, and how can I get it?
- 3.1.2.4) What is Finale? How can I get a demo? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.2.5) What is Lime and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.2.6) What is cmn and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
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- 3.1.2.7) What is Nutation and... well, you know. (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.3.1.1) What is CSound? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.3.1.2) What are the requirements of CSound? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.3.1.3) Is there a tutorial on CSound? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.3.2) What is Deluxe Music Construction Set (DMCS)? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.4.1) Where can I get recordings of electronic music?
- 3.1.5.1) Are there programs to convert back and forth between human/filter-readable text and MIDI files? How do I get them?
- 3.1.5.2) What is Midi2TeX, and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.5.3) What is Hyperupic, and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.5.4) What is SoundHack and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.5.5) What is the Copyist Companion, and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.6.1) What are tclm and xdrum, and how can I get them? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.6.2) What is MixView, and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.6.3) What is DU", and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.6.4) What is RT, and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.6.5) What is RTLisp, and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.1.6.6) What is Cmix and how can I get it? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- Cmix is a loosely connected group of utilities for ...
- 3.1.7.1) What are Patchmix and StochGran and how can I get them? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 3.2.3.1) What are some currently available sound editors for the NeXT?
- 3.2.3.3) Where can I find information about the NeXT MIDI driver?
- 3.2.3.4) What is the status of the Music Kit on NeXT machines?
- 3.2.3.5) What ear-training software is there for the NeXT?
- 3.2.4.2) What are some public-domain (or nearly so) sample-editing programs for IBM-PC compatibles? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 4.1.1) What are some good things with which to whack MIDI drum triggers?
- 4.1.2) How do I get MIDI working with my analog synth?
- From: Shiv (S.) Naimpally ...
- 4.2.1) What are some MIDI interfaces for 386 UNIX boxes?
- 4.4.1) How do I do MIDI with my laptop PC? What is the Key Electronics Midiator?
- 4.4.2) I'm just starting on MIDI and want to know how to send MIDI from my SCO UNIX box (and who do I buy a card from? Are there device drivers available?)
- 4.4.3) How can I adapt my IBM-PC parallel port to be a MIDI interface?
- 4.5.1) What's all this about problems with Macintosh Powerbooks and MIDI?
- 4.5.2) How can I build my own MIDI interface for the Macintosh?
- 5.1) Is an overview of "General MIDI" available?
- 5.2) What are the names and address of various gear manufacturers? (Electronic and Computer Music)
- 5.3) Where may I find an electronic music bibliography?
- 5.4) Where can I find out all about MIDI?
- 5.5) What are the details behind current sound formats?