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- This is the MIDI Cycluphonics (mcf) package, by Jim Vaccaro and Rick
- Hohensee. In a word, it's a new twist on the old color organ. Since it's
- not mine, I don't feel comfortable saying more than that. I am merely the
- distributor of the package. For further information contact Rick, at the
- address mentioned in the document files.
-
- This archive should contain the following files:
-
- read.me 972 What you're reading now.
- mcf3.doc 2997 Ideas on how the program is/should be built.
- midi.library 6372 An older version of the midi.library.
- abstract 338 Brief explaination of the concept.
- cycluphonics"explained" 3351 Detailed explaination of the concept.
- mcf2 18220 The actual working program.
-
- Kevin Cole
- Gallaudet University
- July 17, 1992
-
- Here's the mcf3.doc for further explaination:
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-
- Abstract
-
- What is MCF3? It is a program written by Jim Vacarro Ph.D. to implement a
- concept developed initially by yours truly, Rick Hohensee. The concept in
- question I have tentatively dubbed cycluphonics. Basically cycluphonics is a
- new color-organ algorithm based on a color wheel and a musical cycle of fifths.
- In other words, cycluphonics is a system to convert sounds to colors or vice
- versa which, in my biased opinion, makes the music correlate with the visuals
- better than has been the case with similar systems. Rather than attempt to
- explain further, MCF3 lets someone with MIDI capability and an Amiga experience
- an implementation of cycluphonics first-hand. This a working, but kludgey,
- alpha version. Binary only.
-
-
- MCF requirements as of June 13, 1992
-
- Any Amiga, the enclosed version of the Pregnant Badger MIDI library, (v2.0
- enclosed, the only one that seems to work), a 32-color image screen, a viewer
- that doesn't cycle the colors, and a source of MIDI events at the serial port.
-
-
- Description
-
- MCF accepts MIDI-in, converts note events to color values, blends the colors
- if the notes are simultaneous, and changes a 32-color color palette to the
- resulting colors of the last 32 sound events. When you run MCF you will get a
- window with some gadgets in it. The one you must click first is 'grab screen'.
- This requires that your topmost screen be a 32 color image with no color
- cycling or the like. This means you must have an image screen over the screen
- MCF occupies when you click 'grab screen', which further means that you will
- have to drag the image screen down a ways to get at the MCF window. The grab
- screen mechanism violates ADOS protocols, so turn everything off before exiting
- or meditate. Actually only 30 colors are cycled. The first 2 are usually black
- and white, and aren't cycled.
-
- Your state now is that you are looking at the MCF window with an image
- screen visible at the bottom of your physical screen, and you have clicked the
- grab screen gadget. Click on 'cycling on', and if there are MIDI notes at the
- serial port, the colors of the image screen will be changed in accordance with
- the settings of the 'cycle on event' gadgets, cycluphonically.
-
-
- If you don't have any external MIDI hardware...
-
- I don't either. Jim told me how to do a cheap compromise, though. Get a
- DB-25 male connector at Radio Shack. Connect pins 2 and 3. Viola. MIDI out
- to in. Then Deluxe Music and similar programs can drive MCF.
-
-
- Acknowledgement and final words
-
- I'd like to thank Jim Vacarro for shining his unbounded expertise on my
- idea. My only access point to the world at large for comments, questions and
- so on is the P.O. box listed below. Jim can be addressed through me. Enjoy.
- If you use this publicly please give credit where credit is due.
-
-
- Rick Hohensee
- P.O. Box 11340
- Washington, DC 20008
-