midi-music-micro-IBM

[Chengodan A]

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This is to people WHO are 'interested in' OR 'working on':
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	MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface),
	MUSIC,
	COMPUTER (of any kind and application),
	COMPUTER Music,
	Aplication
	and anything related.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thu Jan  4 18:38:21 GMT 1990

Hello everybody,

	I have a small help to ask from all of you. Before that,
let me inroduse myself. I`m a B.Eng. student from University of
Essex. Currentlly I`m involved in a project based on MIDI and 
IBM-AT. The aim is to 'anotate keyboard generated music'.

	This is rather new (for me and to some of you) and
rather different for IBM-AT's daily application.

	I'd like to see peoples view on this topic. I have a 
small questionnaire with this article for which you can give 
some comments. I`d certainly welcome any useful views.
The main aim for this survey is to understand peoples view
on this topic. This are for educational aim only.

	You can reply to me by E-mail to the following 
address.
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	E-mail:
		form JANET:  chena1 at uk.ac.essex.ese
		form BITNET: chena1%uk.ac.essex.ese at ac.uk
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	I do appreciate any contribution and thank you for 
your time.

Yous,
A.Chengodan, 
Electronic Systems Engineering Dept,
University of Essex,
Wivenhoe Park,
Colchester,
Essex, UK.


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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The questionnaire (V.II) is: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A).	Hardware/Software availability for the IBM-AT`s 
	interfacing the keyboard via MIDI.

	1. How many Hardware and Software are available in
		the market and Public Domain?

	2. Are they good or bad?
		In term of:
			- speed
			- interactive
			- compatible
			- easy to setup 
			- easy to learn and use
			- readily available

	3. How good or bad are they?
		In term of:
			- speed
			- interactive
			- compatible
			- easy to setup 
			- easy to learn and use

	4. What are the constrains that put to you as 
		a user(eg. basic hardware required-memory,
		hard disc, monitor, mouse ...)?

	5. Can you accept the constrains ?

	6. What are the constrains?

	7. Which one of the  Hardware and Software 
		do you prefer to have?

	8. Are they suit your needs?

	9. How much money have you spent on it?

	10. Are you developing your own hardware/software?

	11. What do you think you need to have (hardware and
		software quality and capability)?

	12. What are missing from those software and hardware
		which are already in the market?

	13. Is there any special standards available in MIDI
		file format (or any thing relevent) ?

	14. Do you think you need one of it to assure 
		compatibility?

	15. Is there any other comments?

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That`s all for now. Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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My E-mail address:
                form JANET:  chena1 at uk.ac.essex.ese
                form BITNET: chena1%uk.ac.essex.ese at ac.uk
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BYE.