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The Sound Site Newsletter Issue 04
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The
Sound
Site
Newsletter
Volume 1 #4 March 3, 1991 (P)
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Note from the Editor
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Sorry for the delay in this fourth edition. Our mailing list has grown
to over 500 people and we also had problems losing one of our primary
sites. I hope to keep this newsletter monthly. This one is particularly
long. I have also made some formatting changes that should make it
easier to read. I hope you enjoy the changes and feel free to comment.
For those of you who subscribed prior to March 1 and did not receive this
by e-mail it means that the address you send us bounced. Please send
an alternate address.
-----> Dave
In this issue
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o Do you want to announce a new product?
o Sound Bits: A look at 3 new products
o Midi Information
o An interactive session featuring ROGUE
o Anonymous FTP sound Sites
o How to join the sound list
o List of MIDI Bulletin boards
Do you want to announce a new product?
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If you have written a sound releated program that is SHAREWARE,
FREEWARE, or PUBLIC DOMAIN and would like to announce your program
to the world contact us. In addition to an announcement on the
sound-letter we will also see that your program is uploaded to
ROGUE for international access! And best of all its F-R-E-E.
If you are a commerical company want to advertise your product in the
Sound Newsletter, please contact Playmac Technologies for further
information.
If you wish for us to describe or evaluate your product, please
contact us for further information.
Why?
o Our readers are interested in the latest developments in the
sound field and by allows announcements of this sort we help
these people find the programs
o The sound-list is mailed via e-mail to over 500 individuals
around the world who have personally requested this info.
o We are also posted on USENET that has a potential audience
of several hundred thousand.
Sound Bits
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*****
Playmac Technologies annouces an upgrade of Playmac v2.00 to Playmac
v2.10. In this version, longer data files are supported.
If you are running out of memory with your data files, Playmac
Technologies advises you to upgrade. If you are not encountering
problems with your data files, upgrading is not necessary.
Playmac v2.10 supports the following:
o Organization of sound files (SND Files)
o Floppy and Hard Disk support
o DOS 3.2, 3.3 and DOS 4.0 support
o Ability to process longer Playmac data files
*****
FMSOUND.ZIP (Found on Rogue)
This is the Windows 3.0 sound program that supports 35 instruments but
only supports ROL (Roland) files on a computer with a Sound Blaster.
It plays in the background and requires very little overhead. Very
friendly to use and comes with an instrument editor.
*****
JMPLAYER (Found on Rogue)
This plays trakblaster and Amiga modules. It requires a little
programming to make the program files, but from the samples included,
it doesn't require any complicated programming. Contains a real time
spectrum analyzer and allows files of over 440K. It also has a digital
track and module display. Playback quality is not perfect, but of very
good quality. A few instruments are not supported, but are really not
that necessary. Leeched Holland I believe.
*****
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MIDI BBS's
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In the past we have received numerous requests for MIDI information and
locating of MIDI programs and support. Thanks to Eddie Anthony
(aa588@cleveland.freenet.edu) we now have a list of nationwide BBS
numbers you can call. This list is provided for you benefit at the
end of this newsletter.
An Interactive session with ROGUE
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[Editors note. As of July 1 Rogue is no longer up but this has been
left in as it is a good example of how to FTP from any site]
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Please note that ROGUE is an independent site run by Michael Minakami
and is not a part of Playmac Technologies. All administrative information
should be send to Mike.
****
Many of you have questioned how to log into Rogue. This site is
different from many sites and by far has the largest sound file
and program collections. Below is a sample session on how to connect
with rogue. If your machine does not take the kfps-roble6-dynamic line
then simply 'finger minakami@neon.stanford.edu' This account will have
the current IP#. The IP# floats within a range depending on outside
variables and we have not been able to stabalize it as of yet.
Script started on Wed Feb 13 23:37:53 1991
alcor.usc.edu(1): ftp kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu
ftp: connect to address 36.80.0.138: Connection refused
Trying 36.80.0.139...
ftp: connect to address 36.80.0.139: Connection refused
Trying 36.80.0.140...
ftp: connect to address 36.80.0.140: Connection refused
Trying 36.80.0.141...
Connected to kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu.
220 rogue.stanford.edu FTP version 900418 (LocalTalk.01) ready at Fri Feb 08 11:36:15 1991
Name (kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu:komatsu): anonymous
331 Enter PASS command
Password: [enter your e-mail address as password]
230 Logged in
ftp> dir
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for LIST /pub
anim/ 0:31 12/09/90 foreign/ 11:25 2/01/91
images/ 23:35 11/08/90 msdos/ 0:06 11/09/90
rogue-in.fo 2,832 0:21 2/03/91 sound/ 23:37 11/08/90
sounds/ 0:02 12/11/90 speech/ 16:10 11/23/90
upload/ 1:07 11/09/90
9 files. 154,370,048 bytes free. Disk size 354,746,368 bytes.
226 File sent OK
431 bytes received in 0.4 seconds (1.1 Kbytes/s)
ftp> cd sound
257 "/pub/sound" is current directory
ftp> dir
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for LIST /pub/sound
cmf/ 17:48 11/23/90 noistrkr/ 23:37 11/08/90
rol/ 17:32 11/23/90 scrmtrkr/ 16:57 11/23/90
snd/ 23:38 11/08/90
5 files. 154,370,048 bytes free. Disk size 354,746,368 bytes.
226 File sent OK
ftp> cd scrmtrkr
257 "/pub/sound/scrmtrkr" is current directory
ftp> dir
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for LIST /pub/sound/scrmtrkr
acidlamb.zip 133,861 17:08 11/23/90 aface.zip 75,135 17:08 11/23/90
blackh.zip 44,588 17:08 11/23/90 brain.zip 45,264 17:07 11/23/90
cappower.zip 100,390 17:07 11/23/90 chrush.zip 113,847 17:08 11/23/90
cool.zip 65,505 17:03 11/23/90 cream.zip 96,017 17:03 11/23/90
digital.zip 65,106 17:03 11/23/90 discopre.zip 30,181 17:03 11/23/90
dream.zip 84,185 17:03 11/23/90 dream1.zip 106,319 17:03 11/23/90
dstar-bo.zip 50,684 20:55 1/09/91 ecc21.zip 49,848 17:03 11/23/90
electro.zip 93,377 17:04 11/23/90 flphouse.zip 195,420 20:56 1/09/91
funkdina.zip 160,399 20:56 1/09/91 getup.zip 97,705 17:04 11/23/90
hlrunner.zip 75,511 20:56 1/09/91 ice-t.zip 22,798 13:18 11/25/90
ivfallen.zip 165,616 20:57 1/09/91 justice.zip 48,978 17:04 11/23/90
kefrens.zip 70,751 17:04 11/23/90 labyrint.zip 93,662 17:04 11/23/90
lambada.zip 51,552 17:04 11/23/90 lngslide.zip 108,233 20:56 1/09/91
mickey.zip 53,253 17:05 11/23/90 peats.zip 78,940 17:05 11/23/90
polar.zip 81,310 17:05 11/23/90 poseidon.zip 94,712 17:05 11/23/90
preludi.zip 19,757 17:05 11/23/90 punchsma.zip 64,296 17:05 11/23/90
raa.zip 56,590 20:55 1/09/91 razor.zip 56,731 17:06 11/23/90
rmixbyst.zip 62,969 17:06 11/23/90 rocknrol.zip 33,193 17:06 11/23/90
rotate.zip 42,462 17:06 11/23/90 rungtlet.zip 87,542 20:57 1/09/91
softsynt.zip 81,291 20:57 1/09/91 syksav.zip 53,064 17:06 11/23/90
tarzan.zip 53,206 17:06 11/23/90 themodel.zip 53,248 17:06 11/23/90
travmnd3.zip 57,867 20:57 1/09/91 trial.zip 73,317 17:06 11/23/90
wastelan.zip 80,948 17:07 11/23/90 watch.zip 82,116 17:07 11/23/90
whoknows.zip 75,926 17:07 11/23/90
47 files. 139,927,552 bytes free. Disk size 354,746,368 bytes.
226 File sent OK
1971 bytes received in 0.86 seconds (2.2 Kbytes/s)
ftp> tenex [this is for a binary transfer]
200 Type 8 OK
ftp> get preludi.zip
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for RETR /pub/sound/scrmtrkr/preludi.zip
226 File sent OK
local: preludi.zip remote: preludi.zip
19757 bytes received in 3.8 seconds (5.1 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye!
alcor.usc.edu(3):exit
alcor.usc.edu(4):
script done on Thu Feb 7 23:39:11 1991
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Anonymous Sound FTP SITES
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To connect to an anonymous FTP site do the following (we are using the
sound-site as an example)
ftp ccb.ucsf.edu or ftp 128.218.1.13
name: anonymous
password: <email-address>
If you know of any other Sound ftp sites please forward the information
this way. If you know the administrators of the below sound sites or
you are in charge of one of the below sound sites please e-mail me so
we can join efforts. Your input to this sound-list would be greatly
appreciated.
Name IP# What
abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov 128.155.23.64 amiga sounds
ccb.ucsf.edu 128.218.1.13 (.snd), players. Pub/Sound_list
garbo.uwasa.fi 128.214.12.37 Scream Tracker files (formerly CHYDE)
ems.media.mit.edu 18.99.99.99 csound
neon.stanford.edu 36.80.0.138 sounds for soundblaster
rtag.ee.lbl.gov 128.3.254.68 sounds sounds/*.au
sciences.sdsu.edu 130.191.224.2 sounds
sumex-aim.stanford.edu (.snd) files
terminator.cc.umich.edu 141.211.164.8 sounds and misc archive site
ucsd.edu 128.54.16.1 sounds for sparc
xanth.cs.odu.edu 128.82.8.1 startrek sounds pub/star-trek/stsounds.
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Sound players
XXX 131.123.2.50 sounds for sound blaster
If you are reading this on a USENET 'rn' newsgroup and DID NOT RECEIVE
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In your message body, include the following command:
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Appendix 1: List of MIDI BBS's
BBS Name City Number
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AV-Sync Atlanta, GA 404-320-6202
Alert Data OPUS Greensboro, NC 919-274-7000
Atlanta's IEMUG Atlanta, GA 404-942-3387
Condor Electronics BBS Mansfield, MA 508-261-9808
Dr. T's Boston, MA 617-739-2366
Dwight School BBS New York City, NY 212-879-2625
East Coast MIDI New York 516-928-4986
Eniac-MIDI Rockville, MD 301-460-9134
House of Minus Denton, TX 817-565-1500
Iconnex MIDI BBS Chicago, IL 815-452-2773
Illusion BBS Ocala, FL 904-867-8411
IEMUG BBS NYC, NY 212-879-2625
Joel Sampson's Engineering Dallas, TX 214-328-6909
Larry's Shareware Massachusetts 413-783-3199
Mackintosh Users at Berklee Boston, MA 617-739-2366
MIDI & ST Exchange Columbus, OH 614-848-5947
MIDI 'n Music Irvine, CA 714-552-3036
MIDI-Thru Baltimore, MD 301-384-0351
MIDIline Baltimore, MD 301-882-7734
MIDImaze BBS Chattanooga, TN 615-877-5528
Midwest ADLIB User's BBS Ohio 513-746-5863
MidWest MIDI BBS Oklahoma City, OK 405-733-3102
MIDI World Network Los Angeles, CA 213-841-0347
MIDIum BBS Los Angeles, CA 818-764-4538
Music Quest BBS Dallas, TX 214-881-7311
Musicians Den Phoenix, AZ 602-864-0244
Musicnet Washington, DC 301-946-6796
Photostar BBS Richmond, VA 703-774-4667
Power Station BBS Vallejo, CA 707-642-0824
San Francisco MIDI Users San Francisco, CA 415-771-1788
Snarfs Music Studio Chicago, IL 708-351-0288
Sound Management Music Chicago, IL 708-949-6434
Southern New England & MIDI Bridgeport, CT 203-377-6758
Sysport MIDI BBS San Diego, CA 619-698-7155
Taste BBS Brooklyn, NY 718-252-4529
Telecommuter's Express BBS Huntington Bch, CA 213-863-3742
The Art's Rap Rochester, NY 716-223-7874
The Attic Herndon, VA 703-742-4056
The Doctor's Office BBS New York, NY 212-662-8597
The Dungeon New Orleans, LA 504-282-5753
Video-Pro Virginia 703-455-1873
Washington MIDI Users Group Washington, DC 703-532-7860
Yamaha C1 BBS Los Angeles, CA 714-522-9464
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| Note: ccb.ucsf.edu contains 15 megs of sound files for REmac & Playmac |
| Mail: sound@ccb.ucsf.edu (with ADD-ME: name@site to be added to the |
| sound list providing information on PC sound programs |
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| sound@ccb.ucsf.edu | Playmac Technologies |
| komatsu@aludra.usc.edue | Co-author / Public Relations |
| -----> Dave | Playmac 2.00, SIMP, TP, QL etc |
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