🚀 go-pugleaf

	Announcing the CCRMA Music Kit and DSP Tools Distribution

		*** Now available on CD ROM and via FTP ***

The Music Kit is an object-oriented software system for building
music, sound, signal processing, and MIDI applications on the NeXT
computer.  It has been used in such diverse commercial applications as
music sequencers, computer games, and document processors.  Professors
and students in academia have used the Music Kit in a host of areas,
including music performance, scientific experiments, computer-aided
instruction, and physical modeling.  The Music Kit is the first to
unify the MIDI and Music V paradigms, thus combining interaction with
generality.  (Music V, written by Max Mathews and others at Bell Labs
three decades ago, was the first widely available "computer music
compiler".)

The NeXT Music Kit was first demonstrated at the 1988 NeXT product
introduction and was bundled in NeXT software releases 1.0 and 2.0.
Beginning with NeXT's 3.0 release, the Music Kit is no longer part of
the standard NeXT software release.  Instead, it is being distributed
and supported by the Center for Computer Research in Music and
Acoustics (CCRMA) of Stanford University.

To launch the CCRMA Music Kit, CCRMA has hired David A. Jaffe,
principal designer of the Music Kit at NeXT Computer Inc., to work
closely with Prof. Julius O. Smith, designer of the Music Kit DSP
software at NeXT and Associate Professor (Research) at CCRMA.

The first release of the CCRMA Music Kit is now available for NeXT
computers running NeXTSTEP 3.0.  It is a comprehensive package that
includes on-line documentation, programming examples, utilities,
applications and sample score documents.  The package also comes with
the DSP Array Processing Library, and Bug56, a window-oriented,
symbolic debugger for the DSP5600x by Ariel Corporation.

For the first time, source code (!) is available for everything except
Bug56 and the low-level sound, DSP, and MIDI drivers.  This means
researchers and developers may study the source or even customize the
Music Kit and DSP Tools to suit their needs.  Enhancements can be sent
to musickit@ccrma.stanford.edu to have them considered for future
CCRMA releases. Commercial NeXT software developers may freely
incorporate and adapt the software to accelerate development of
NeXTSTEP software products.  (Free commercial use of files copyrighted
by NeXT Inc. are understandably restricted to NeXTSTEP platforms.)

Among the significant enhancements since the NeXT 2.0 version is a new
version of Ensemble, the composition and performance application by
Michael McNabb.  Ensemble can now mix multiple sound files with DSP
sound synthesis, send MIDI to external synthesizers, and generate
complex responses to perfomers' actions, all under MIDI control.
Other enhancements include a new version of ScorePlayer and
improvements to the DSP and Music Kit libraries.


Please send all bug reports, comments, etc. to
musickit@ccrma.stanford.edu

======================== CD ROM INFO ==============================

The CD ROM release of the Music Kit and DSP Tools INSTALLATION PACKAGE
comes free with a year membership to the Bay Area Next Users Group
(BANG).  To join BANG and obtain the CD ROM, send a check for US $35
to the following address:

	BANG
	P.O. Box  1731
	Palo Alto, CA 94302
	phone: (415) 327-BANG
	e-mail: info@BANG.org

The CD ROM also contains a wide variety of other NeXT software.


Note that the SOURCE PACKAGE is not available on CD ROM.

======================== FTP INFO ==================================

1. To obtain the Music Kit and DSP Tools INSTALLATION PACKAGE via FTP:

>From a shell, type "ftp ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu".  Then login with the
name "anonymous" and your email address as a password.  Type "cd pub",
then "bin" to choose binary transfer mode.  Say "get
MusicKit_3.0.pkg.tar" to start the transfer.  You should also "get
MusicKit.README", as it contains useful information about the
installation process. Once it is complete, say "bye" to exit ftp, and
unpack the file by typing "tar xvf MusicKit_3.0.pgk.tar" followed by
"open MusicKit_3.0.pkg" (or open the package directly from the program
/NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer).

The Installer program will let you choose a directory in which to
place the installation tree.  If you are on a stand-alone machine, you
should be logged in (or running Installer) as root and choose "/" for
the installation directory (the default).  This will cause files to be
placed in the directories /LocalApps, /LocalLibrary, /LocalDeveloper,
and /usr/local.  If you are the system administrator for a network of
NeXT Computers, you probably want to choose a local directory which
can be exported and create symbolic links into that directory on the
networked machines.  Alternatively, if you have a single server that
exports /Local* and /usr/local, simply install the package there and
you're done.

The size of the uninstalled package is about 9.6 mb.
The size of the installed package is about 24.8 mb.

2. FTP directions for obtaining SOURCE CODE PACKAGE:

As above, but the filename is instead "MusicKitSource_3.0.pkg.tar".
The Installer program will let you choose a directory in which to
place the source tree, which can be anywhere.  Please read the README
file to get started.


The size of the uninstalled package is about 7 mb.
The size of the installed package is about 21 mb.



Send submissions for comp.sys.next.announce to announce@cubetech.com