source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:49:15 -0700 Subject: pitch bending From: William Sethares John wrote: >Bill Sethares has written a great program for the Atari that does just >what's been described. It's called Microtun and it's great. With old STs >availble for around $100 or less, it's worth having a second computer for >this. > >Perhaps he could be convinced to port it to Mac? I agree that its a cool program and does the pitch bend thing about as well as possible. There are problems with porting it, however. First, it is written in BASIC (please don't laugh) which means it ought to be fairly easy, but (a) it need to be compiled - on the ST the interpreted version is not fast enough to use real time, while the compiled version is (just barely) fast enough. I suspect the Mac will be similar. (b) the BASIC needs to have some kind of MIDI input/output commands. I haven't looked extensively, but I don't know of any BASIC's with both these features. Alternatively, if someone is enterprising, I would be happy to supply the source code for translation into some other language. Finally, if anyone with an ST wants a copy of Microtun, let me know. It's distributed as "songware". You can have a copy for free, but agree to send me copies of any interesing things you record with it. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:15 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01495; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:17:19 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01491 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA21594; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:17:16 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:17:16 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu