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heritier@delta4.frec.bull.fr (Franck HERITIER) writes:
|> I have some (difficult for me) questions about music in general :
|>
|> -1- One of the first modular synthetizer is named MOOG. Where does its
|> name come from ?

Robert Moog. He works for Kurzweil now I believe.

|> -2- Quantization is a functionnality of a sequensor. Could you describe
|> this function ?

Imagine a grid with regular divisions in time. Sequencer events, typically note on
and note off events, are *pulled* to the nearest grid division, thereby moving them
in time. The coarser the grid, the more dramatic the shift. Use it sparingly to
tighten up your playing if your timing is not as *perfect* as you would like. Use it
liberally if you want your music to sound computer-generated :^)

|> -3- Time Code SMPTE : What does it mean ?

SMPTE stands for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and is a standard
developed by the society for encoding timing information. As they were primarily
interested in pictures, the data fields are broken into hours:minutes:seconds:frames,
where a frame is a single raster in television terms (1/30 sec in USA, 1/25 sec
in UK) or a single celluloid image in motion picture terms (1/24 sec).

If you have two or more audio (or video) machines on which a timecode has been
recorded, you can *lock* them together by using one as the master timekeeper and
slaving the others to it.

|> -4- Was MPU-401 standard created by Roland ?

Yes. Er, it sounds like there ought to be a follow-up question to this, but I don't
know what it is, so I can't answer it.

|> -5- Do you know M-ROS for Atari ST ? What is the name of the editor ?

Sorry, I can't answer this one :-(

-Paul

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