COMPUTERS and MUSIC at M.S.U.
FACILITIES:
COMPUTER MUSIC LAB
This is a general purpose computer music lab, established by the Office of Computing and Technology, the College of Arts and Letters, and the School of Music in 1988. It is open to all university students, staff and faculty. It can accommodate twelve people working simultaneously on various hardware platforms: Macintosh, Windows, NeXT, and SGI. It is used by students in various classes in music theory and music education, by composition students working on printing scores, creating compositions, or programming, and by various other students working on music projects that require the use of a computer.
Hardware
Computers and Peripherals
- 4 MacIntosh PowerPC G4/450 computers with Automedia III cards
- 1 MacIntosh PowerPC G4/400 computer
- 2 MacIntosh PowerPC G3/400 computers
- 1 Dell Optiplex GX1 600 Mhz Pentium III computers running Win98b with Automedia III card
- 2 Dell Optiplex GX1p 450 Mhz Pentium II computers running Win98b (1 Automedia III card)
- 1 Silicon Graphics O2 computer
- 1 NeXT computer
- 2 Phillips Omniwriter ReWritable CD drives
- 5 APS Tech USB CD Writable drives
- 1 Iomega external Jaz drives
- 10 Zip drives
- 2 Epson Expression Flatbed Scanners (836 XL and 1600)
- 1 GCC Elite XL 808 laser printer
- 1 Sony SVO 1520 video cassette recorders
- 2 VST Firewire External Hard Drives
- 10 21 inch Monitors
Synthesizers and Keyboards
- 7 Kurzweil PC88mx Performance Controller keyboards
- 1 Kurzweil K2000s Sampler keyboard
- 2 Alesis QS8 Controller/Synthesizers
- 1 Casio CZ-1 synthesizer/keyboard
- 2 Kurzweil K2500RS sampling/synthesis modules
- 2 Roland JV-1080 synthesis modules
- 2 Yamaha TX802 FM synthesis modules
- 2 Yamaha MJC8 MIDI patchbays
Audio Equipment
- 5 Panasonic SV3700/3800 DAT Recorders
- 2 Tascam 112 cassette recorders
- 3 Mackie 12 channel mixers
- 2 Gaines Audio 8 channel mixers
- 4 Alesis Microverbs
Software
Digital and MIDI Sequencing and Mixing
- Pro Tools
- Digital Performer
- Soundiver
- Cakewalk Pro Suite
Digital Sound Editing and CD Writing
- Peak
- SoundEdit 16
- SoundForge
- Cool Edit Pro
- AudioSculpt
- SoundHack
- AC Toolbox
- Toast
- Jam
Sound Synthesis/Analysis and Editor/Librarians
- Galaxy
- Csound
- Modalys
- Diphone
- Cecelia
- GrainMaker
- StochGran
- Wigout
- Lemur
- Ceres
- Cmask
Notation
- Finale
- Sibelus
- NoteWriter
Multimedia and Graphics
- Premiere
- Photoshop
- HyperCard
- Director
- Illustrator
- Extreme 3D
- GraphicConvertor
- Textbridge Pro
- QuarkXPress
Programming and Web Development
- CodeWarrior
- Symantec C++
- Mathematica
- Go Live
- Flash
- Fireworks
- Real Producer Plus