source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:40:17 +0100 Subject: RE: PMA From: "Loffink, John" >Roland's PMA-5 has been out for more than a year. It supports Roland"s GS >specification, an extension of General MIDI. My understanding is that all >Roland GS instruments have one octave based microtuning per part, or MIDI >channel, but that they may only be accessible through MIDI System Exclusive >codes. If the sequencer in the PMA-5 allows the user to define and embed >Sysex, then the unit would be capable of self-contained microtonal music, >otherwise an external sequencer would be needed to generate the microtonal >parts. Worst case, it ought to be possible to generate the Sysex microtuning >file on your computer, record it on the PMA-5, then use that setup file as >the basis for any compositions. > >The PMA-5 is listed at my Microtonal Synthesis web site, located at: >http://freeweb.pdq.net/jloffink/ > >John Loffink >john.loffink@compaq.com > > > > I just heard that Roland recently released what they call a "Personal >Music Assistant". It is, essentially, a music-oriented PDA (Personal >Digital Assistant, like the Newton). Apparently it lets you do some pretty >typical (ooo, that might be a problem right there!) compositional tasks >with a pen-based interface, and play the results over MIDI, presumably >General MIDI. I hear it sells for a few hundred US$. > > Anybody know if this beastie has any microtonal capability, or any other >info or thoughts on it? I suppose microtonal capability would be too much >to ask. > > SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Prent Rodgers Subject: Our instruments PostedDate: 06-01-98 18:02:23 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 06-01-98 18:01:59-06-01-98 18:02:00,06-01-98 18:01:55-06-01-98 18:01:56 DeliveredDate: 06-01-98 18:01:56 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256584.005D8EA1; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:01:53 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA07413; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:02:23 +0100 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:02:23 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05075 Received: (qmail 17083 invoked from network); 6 Jan 1998 09:02:19 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jan 1998 09:02:19 -0800 Message-Id: <5030050002606435000002L552*@MHS> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu