Re: MIDI keyboard

[Colin Campbell]

On 13-08-13 02:00 PM, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Was it NoteWriter?
> > http://debussy.music.ubc.ca/NoteWriter/index.html
> >From reading the reference manual: no.
>
> "All notes, except the whole note and double whole note (breve), require
> two mouse clicks. The first mouse click places the head of the note, and
> the second draws the stem (or flag) to the height of the second cursor
> position."
>
> That's definitely not how it worked. The program I used was much simpler
> (and older).


Just for the sake of preserving antiquity, I had the opportunity to play 
around with a music writing program being developed at the National 
Research Centre in IIRC '65 or '66. Pitch entry was controlled by a 
thumbwheel*, moving a glyph up and down on the CRT. Duration was (hazy 
here) by function keys. Even more fun: one could use the controls to 
alter the waveform of the generated sounds. Regrettably, my mental attic 
doesn't have the name of the program, although from the shapes of the 
glyphs it may have been written in APL, nor the name of the researcher.

Cheers,
Colin

* Mouse!? We don't need no . . .

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