ANNOUNCEMENT: New release of Common Music

[Rick Taube]

A new version of Common Music is available via anonymous ftp  from

        ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:/pub/Lisp/cm/cm.*
        ftp.zkm.de:/pub/cm/cm.*

This release contains several  new machine ports and some major new
functionality:

New machine ports:

o   Mac: PPC-native MCL 3.9. Includes a new shared library MIDI interface
by Tobias Kunze.
o   SGI: Allegro Common Lisp 4. 3.
o   Intel: ACL 3.0 for Windows.  (No direct MIDI connection but the glue
code (C and Lisp)
    is there for someone with a C compiler and enough interest.)

Major new features:

o  Non-consing scheduler and two clock modes to support real-time algorithmic
    composition.  A new tutorial chapter explains this basic new functionality:
    http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/cm/tutorials/stella/s14.html
o   32 logical channels MIDI I/O (Mac, NeXT, SGI)
o   IO processing now handled asynchronously wherever possible
o   See doc/changes.text for a complete listing of new features and changes.

To learn about Common Music, visit the home page at:

        http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/cm/cm.html

Source code is available free of charge at:

        http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/cm/install.html

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Rick Taube
taube@uiuc.edu