source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:55:30 -0700 Subject: MIDIBASIC From: John Chalmers Re Bill Sethares's post: I have sometimes used BASIC to control my FB01 from my MAC via a BASIC Mac library called MIDIBASIC, published by a company called Altech in Shreveport LA. Carter Scholz wrote some BASIC code using calls to MIDIBASIC routines for Arturo Salinas and me back in '88 to control our FB01's via fractional note-ons. I'm not sure if Altech Systems are still around or supporting it, but it works fine on the old 68K Macs upto and including System 6.0X (I've run my noodling programs on an SE30 under System 6.07 with no problems). MIDIBASIC came in MSQuickBasic and ZBASIC flavors, but a PC version was also listed in their cataloque. Likewise, a MIDIPASCAL was available as well. I'm not sure even MSQuickBASIC runs on System 7, however, so I don't know if MIDIBASIC can be used with later MACS or with the PPC chip. --John Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 07:24 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01918; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 07:25:41 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01984 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA02404; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:25:38 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:25:38 -0700 Message-Id: <961018052059_71670.2576_HHB38-1@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu