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supported and further developed by Staccato Systems Inc. The NEXTSTEP version, including
a free license authorization code, is available from http://wuv.StaccatoSys.com or
ftp://ftp.StaccatoSys.com. Staccato Systems is also porting SynthBuilder to Windows
95. using the host CPU to do synthesis.
. RECENT UNIT GENERATORS
There are a variety of new UnitGenerator classes. For example, rock-solid real-time envelopes are
now available with AsympenvUG. which down-loads its envelope to the DSP. instead of feeding
the break-points down one at a time (as does AsympUG.)
. OTHER RECENT FEATURES
For more details on these items, as well as other new features, please si-e the Music Kit release notes,
which are available via ftp at ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/NeXT/MusicKit/Release-
Notes.rtf.
Other Music Kit News
Until recently, we were making extensive use of the "Frankenstein" cards (in various forms), homebrewed
DSP cards based on the Motorola EYMs. However, with the advent of the Turtle Beach Fiji
and Pinnacle cards, we no longer feel it is necessary (or worth the trouble) to pursue the "Frankenstein"
direction.
We have been planning to provide a combined sound/MIDI driver for SoundBlaster-compatible cards.
We negotiated with NeXT to do this (because we needed permission to use their sound driver code) and
everything was ready to happen, but then there were some legal complications that held things up. so
we weren't able to get this done for the 4.2 release.
Music Kit Background
The Music Kit is an object-oriented software system for building music, sound, signal processing, and
MIDI applications in the NEXTSTEP programming environment. It has been used in such diverse
commercial applications as music sequencers, computer games, and document processors. Professors and
students 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. Since the NEXTSTEP 3.0 release, the Music Kit has been distributed
by CCRMA. Questions regarding the Music Kit can be sent to musickitOccrma.stanford.edu.
The CCRMA Music Kit and DSP Tools Distribution (or "Music Kit" for short) is a comprehensive
package that includes on-line documentation, programming examples, utilities, applications and sample
score documents. It also comes with Bug56 (black hardware only), a full featured, window-oriented,
symbolic debugger by Ariel Corp. for the Motorola DSP5600x signal processing chip family.
6.1.2 Samply Great
Christian Herbst
Samply Great, a standalone Windows application with a user-friendly graphic interface, is a track-based
Sampling/Mixing programme with DSP features. Basic concepts of computer music, such as additive,
subtractive and granular synthesis can be explored in a WYSIW r YG manner.
The programme uses sound samples, envelopes for additive synthesis (which can be derived from the
analysis of an existing sound), and noise as sound sources. Several effects, for instance volume changes,
waveshaping or transposition can be applied to the whole score or each track, and also to each note of a
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