Disk Contents

ALTERTUNE
By Bill Sethares and John Bell . . . Page 91

Guitarists have always been able to slip into alternate tunings by tightening or loosening their guitar strings. For other instruments, like the saxophone, such redefinition is considerably more difficult. With AlterTune, however, any MIDI instrument can be tuned as easily as left-click-click.

GILBERT'S CHALLENGE
By Michael C. Gilbert. . . . . . . . . Page 50

STurgeon General's Warning: playing Gilbert's Challenge has caused laboratory subjects to spend countless hours in front of their monitor attempting to master the intricacies of this seemingly simple game. Symptoms include bloodshot eyes, twitching mouse-button fingers and mumbling, "Just one more marble, please."

MIDI MASTER DRUMMER AND SOURCE CODE
By Dave Snow. . . . Page 78

Drum-machine programming is an often daunting and tedious process that consists mainly of abstract pattern shuffling and button pushing. Wouldn't it be nice to have a graphic, music-friendly environment in which to create, edit and organize drum patterns? Look no further--MIDI Master Drummer is here.

MIDI PROGRAMMING TIPS
By Steve Johns. . . . . . . .Page 34

MIDI programming on the Atari ST and Mega computers may seem like an arcane art, open only to ordained techno-musicological wizards. In fact, with a few exceptions, MIDI programming is no different than any other kind of applications programming. In this month's Programming In MIDI column, those exceptions are covered, and on disk is C code to handle them.

SAMPSYN By David Snow. . .Page 70

If you've been following developments in electronic music over the past few years, you know that "sampling" (audio digitization) is one of the new buzzwords. A sampling device is basically a circuit system that converts audio signals into binary data (analog-to-digital) and back into sound (digital-to-analog). If you've always wanted to make your computer talk, sing or sneeze, Sampsyn is your conduit.

SUPER CONDUCTOR By Phillip MacKenzie and Jeffrey Sorenson. . . Page 83

Since July is our special music/MIDI issue, we're pleased to offer you a fabulous bonus, MichTron's Super Conductor. This 16-track MIDI sequencer has all the features and functions of professional studio equipment costing thousands of dollars.