From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #22 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, January 26 1998 Volume 03 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Yet another web article [Paul Baily ] Alloy: Re: Site in need of Beatnik? [RThurF ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 98 16:33:22 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: Yet another web article >I've seen it here before, but it's especially interesting in >that there are links not only to Headspace, but to FES, KSpace, >Mr. Milliner's pictorial, two discographies I haven't seen yet, >and Paul's Alloy page! Argh! I feel so... so... /used/! :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 16:57:43 EST From: RThurF Subject: Alloy: Re: Site in need of Beatnik? I received a private e-mail on Beatnik's abilities, which I though some of us might find illuminating (I did!) Here is an exerpt from the letter and my reply: << A studio quality piano sample can be 16 MB or more, though your typical sound card fits all of its instruments (typically 128) into 2 to 4 MB of compressed ROM. I would assume Beatnik comes with a few meg of samples to cover the standard "General MIDI" instrument set.) Based on that, Beatnik ought to be able to reproduce any "strange" instrument to the same extent that it can reproduce a common piano or guitar. The only challenge is obtaining the samples of the antiquated instruments, which if none are available could pose a problem. You'd either have to build one or synthesize from scratch, and these days that would be done using "physical modeling" on a high speed computer. >> I didn't know instruments could be synthesized on the computer in this manner. Is this physical modelling thing in popular use now, for those who can afford it at least? I assume this is designed to take into account such details as the type and age of various woods used, string type and tension etc of each instrument? I'm FASCINATED! Not the same as having the real thing of course, but I'm impressed that someone would have taken the time to make this sort of program. Thankfully there are copies to be found of gambas, viols, and other popular Early Music instruments from which one might take samples; but certain other instruments might have to be synthesized if it isn't cost-efficient to build a replica (I'm not sure how many English Serpent players there are out there...) This gives me some very useful information for the e-mail I'm working on for Shrine to Music's webmaster. If I state my case well enough, perhaps Headspace will be getting a call from the museum soon requesting urgent help with their strangely silent page. Thanks Tom! Robin >> PS to Alloy, the 'Tom' here is NOT Thomas! :) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #22 **************************