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Theater Professor Meade Receives Honors
Adjunct assistant professor of theater Laural Meade '88 has received two national awards for the high caliber of her work – recognition that will help her write new plays.
Together with Corey Madden and Keith Mitchell, Meade is the recipient of one of 38 MAP (Multi-Arts Production Fund) grants for the development of new work for live performance. (Madden is a long-time collaborator of Meade's who was the associate artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum for 22 years. Mitchell is a set designer.) She will use the grant to develop a theater piece called "Rock, Paper, Scissors" with Childsplay Theater in Tempe, Arizona.
In addition, Meade was inducted into the Minneapolis Playwrights' Center as a "core writer." As such, she will receive production support to develop new work and test it on audiences over the next three years.
"It's great to be in the company of such distinguished writers and artists, and always gratifying to be recognized for your work," Meade said. "In a cultural climate where arts funding is increasingly scarce -- especially funding for theater -- it's also reassuring. These honors mean that my current projects will definitely have a life on stage in the next year."
Meade describes "Rock, Paper, Scissors" as an entirely non-verbal performance that follows a very young and very old character who are cut off from their technological "crutches." Faced with boredom, they begin exploring plain white paper and ultimately create their own imaginative adventure. She is currently developing the script and will rehearse the piece in residence at Childsplay in January. It will then tour throughout Arizona until June.
In Minneapolis, the Playwrights' Center staff will develop Meade's plays in workshops, introduce her work to like-minded theaters and artists, have her out for master classes, and "generally be in my corner," she says. The first project will be a residency in March of next year to work on her new play, "The Suffragist Roadshow," a semi-fictionalized account of a group of activists who took a cross-country road trip in 1915 to gather signatures on a petition for national suffrage. The play is staged entirely in and around a 1915 Chrysler touring car. It was performed in a workshop production in Occidental's Hillside Theater last semester.
"I love working with our students on new plays," Meade said. "Minneapolis will be an excellent opportunity to work on the next draft and have the play seen by other regional theaters."
The MAP program is a joint funding initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation. The core writer program at the Playwrights' Center is considered one of the nation's most competitive and rewarding opportunities for emerging writers in the field today.
Meade works as a playwright, director, and educator in her native Los Angeles. Her plays have been seen throughout Los Angeles, as well as in New York at PACE University and the Hangar Theater, in Chicago at the Bailiwick, in Seattle at On The Boards, and in London at LAMDA.


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Posted on 02/21/2012 10:35:14 AM PST by gabriellah
Okay, so Im a sucker for show tunes and glam rock.
Yes, I enjoy the amazing talent of Idina Menzel in the Broadway hit Wicked. Absolutely, I am left awestruck after hearing the wonderful scores of Claude-Michel Schönberg in Les Mis. And lets not even dispute the fact that Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, along with the rest of the folks in Fleetwood Mac are actually seraphim sent from the very throne of God to give us the eleventh commandment, which is dont stop thinking about tomorrow.
If all of that makes me less of a man, then men need to do some serious introspecting.
So when Glee, the show that perfectly captures what it is like to go to high school in the Midwest (on another planet) hit the airwaves, 12 year old girls swooned, high school Glee Club members rejoiced, and music fans like me now had to try to figure out how we could get away from our friends for an hour a week, with the doors locked and the blinds pulled, to indulge in a little show tunage without them really knowing we were watching Glee.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegeconservative.com ...
But you do have to be gay to watch "Glee."
My 22 year old daughter watches this show. I have no idea what she gets out of it as I have never seen it and never will.
I cancelled my cable 2 months ago and don't miss it at all.
A bunch of people pushing the homosexual agenda, that's why.
The blonde cheerleader on the show is H-O-T-T.
Dr. Rick Marshall: It, it's left over data from the drive. What a piece of crap!
Dr. Rick Marshall: The machine, I mean, not A Chorus Line. I love showtunes, they really tell the story of the human condition.
Holly Cantrell: It's a bit gay.
Dr. Rick Marshall: It IS great.
(And Matt Lauer can still....)
Land of the Lost
A better question is why do we call homosexuals "Gay"?
Wouldn't they be better described as "angries"?
"Gee, Wally... Wait'll Dad finds out you joined the Glee Club."
Glee = reincarnated up with people
I train a teenage boy as one of my clients. It turns out he loves watching Glee with his parents and he doesn't have a girlfriend.
Tell me he doesn't sound a bit gay. And that's how the homosexual agenda works. =( They normalize their perversion and make you expect it as if its normal.
Glee is an awful show I can't help but /SMH at every time I pass it by while channel surfing.
Ward always felt uncomfortable about Walter running around with that Haskell kid.
I took his advice and did some serious introspecting.........what are some of the indicators of homosexuality?.....like the tunes from OKLAHOMA?......not necessarily gay......let Barney Frank ride you like the plastic pony in front of the grocery store......I'd say that would definitely make you gay......just my opinion....
3 of the central characters are gay and one of the central characters has gay parents.
It's ridiculous.
Steven Speilberg's SMASH is another alternative for a music show.
"If all of that makes me less of a man, then men need to do some serious introspecting."
Isn't that point, of articles like this, perception management? In other words, my revulsion to an aberration such as this is not normative behaviour? Will the hilarity never stop?
Pretty much describes it in Reality.. self-identification issues: being overweight, single parent, pregnancy issues, physically challenged, the geek..etc.. Not so much about the football player and the cheerleader anymore "the popular kids". But they were out partying, having sex, overdosing on socially accepted stimulants. The Glee kids were always there; but no one really talked about as having worth in society. Some of them might be described as misfits that didnt get invited to those popular parties; but were gifted with musical talent. All kids just want to get through high school school, college and/or on to a career.
Ah, so that's why Ellen DeGeneres was praising the show... Lol.
"Defining Deviancy Down"
That's another thing that bugs me, how every show HAS to have a gay character now, even if it doesn't really fit the premise of the show. I'm 38 years old, through my college years, my job and personal life, I can only think of three openly gay individuals I have known (although there are a handful more I suspect may have been "in the closet" or at least did feel the need to scream their sexuality from the rafters). But, still that's only 1% or 2% of the friends, coworkers, relatives and acquaintances I have had over the years. Yet, If you just arrived here from another planet and turned on the TV, you would think that gays make up at least 30% of the population.
The word "queer" -- in all its meanings -- seems applicable.
But they seem to welcome that word now.
I could go with "derangedconfusednarcissisticmiserableselfloathingsinners" but it's a little unwieldy...
One might postulate that "seraphim sent from the very throne of God" would actually be able to sing. Which Stevie Nicks can't.
As a young boy, I wondered for years if Raymond Burr could walk after watching him on "Ironside". Seeing him reprise Perry Mason was therefore a real surprise for me.
Recruiting for the 2% who don't have enough victims.
Was that a male of female cheerleader...... ( just saying.)
"You don't have to be gay to enjoy show tunes."
I wouldn't watch glee even if the homosexualist content was 0%—I mean what man is thinking "Gee, I would really be into this great teen show about musical dance numbers if it only had less gayness..."
"Ward always felt uncomfortable about Walter running around with that Haskell kid."
'WARD!!! There's something wrong with the Beaver." /sorry, had to do it.
It's an homage to "Dr. Strangelove."
Yup, that, and "Big Bang Theory". GAG.
That many gays find it attractive is more of a commentary on the shallowness that exists in that world, IMO.
In the dark confines of the 3 AM fits of sleeplessness he now found familiar, Ward wondered if he had been a bit hard on the Beaver earlier that day.
I agree with your sentiment. I love musicals and wish they would make a comeback.
But I am hetero...let's put it this way "Mickey D's is not the only one with the motto 'Billions Served'"
I love theater and musicals and did a lot of it in my early years and I still miss it. Ocasionally I get the chance to do a production at church and I always jump on it. Last one was an opera based on Revelation. Outstanding.
'friends' started it... with the acceptance of lesbian characters etc.
Actually, "Wally" came from Wallace.
"Good morning Mrs. Cleaver. Is Wallace at home?"
Okay,I passed the test.
Something else I've noticed that has been dropped-in with many of the good dramas (on cable): incest. Seems to be showing in more and more shows.
Speaking of gay - supposedly ol' Raymond was about as light in the loafers as you can get.
Whoa.......I may have to check this show out.
Now some clown's gonna post a pic of Helen Thomas just to put a damper on good clean All-American Boy fun. LOL
And oh, by the way, yeah THAT cheerleader's definitely female ;0)
Because only queers refer to themselves as "gleeful" and "gay".
Ever felt "festive", Ern?
Sure. But when I feel festive, I describe myself as feeling "festive".
Damn queers ruined to very old, historic and descriptive words from the English language. Am really hoping they don't try to monopolize the words "college" and "football" in my lifetime.
to = two. Do'h!
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After 47 years, the forgotten warriors of one of the first Marine units to make an amphibious landing in the Vietnam War were remembered Monday with the welcome home party they never got when they came home from war.
For 70-year-old Mario Gambacorta, a private first class "ammo humper" in the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, it was a chance to hug 69-year-old machine gunner Antonio Cervantes, whom he hadn't seen since 1965.
"I'm so happy to see everybody," Cervantes, of El Paso, Texas, said with a wide smile, surrounded by about 70 brothers-in-arms who had gathered for their first reunion, in a ballroom at the Plaza in downtown Las Vegas.
With his wife, Olimpia, by his side, Gambacorta, of White Plains, N.Y., said he "got chills thinking about it" after he was first contacted by the organizer, former Cpl. Paul Salas.
Salas, of Albuquerque, N.M., managed to locate 173 of 204 Marines from the company, only to find out that 41 percent of them - 71 - had died over the years, many from combat injuries and exposure to Agent Orange, a dioxin-laden defoliant used to deny cover to the enemy.
"He used to think about it (the war) a lot and wondered what happened to these guys," Olimpia Gambacorta said about her husband.
The reunion brought together many who last saw one another in the jungle near Phu Bai before they were dispersed throughout the 3rd Marine Division for extended tours, then returned to the United States individually.
Such was the case for Sgt. Frank Lemos. He had signed a $20 South Vietnamese currency note for his buddy, Cpl. Paul Marquardt, on a promise that Marquardt would return it the next time they saw each other.
Marquardt, of New Ulm, Minn., had lost contact with Lemos but found the note in mint condition after 47 years while packing to come to the reunion.
"I signed it and gave it back to him last night," Marquardt said.
"Civilians cannot and will not understand us because they are not one of us," reads the card that Lemos, of Orange, Calif., handed out as he rolled away from the speaker's microphone in his motorized chair.
"The Corps - we love it, live it and shall die for it. If you have never been in it, you shall never understand it."
The 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines landed on Red Beach in Da Nang Bay, South Vietnam, on April 10, 1965. The sea was calm. A light wind blew from the south, but it was hot and muggy, recalled Gambacorta.
"It was a bitch of a landing," he said. "You left the boat, and you ran to this perimeter at the top of the hill. It was hot as hell," said Gambacorta, who was 21 at the time.
Cervantes, the Weapons Platoon machine gunner, remembered the strange feeling of his first combat encounter of many to follow after the landing.
"They started firing at us," he said. "It was an unknown feeling at first. But after we got used to it, it was like a regular job for us," said Cervantes, who served two tours in Vietnam.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman gave the men an official welcome home, reciting from a letter that retired Maj. Clarence D. Williams had written to introduce her to men he described as the "Forgotten Warriors." At least 13 from five companies in the battalion were killed in action in the first 30 days after the landing.
And when the survivors came home one by one, "there were no parades, no celebrations, no flag waving, and no patriotic speeches by government officials or politicians," Williams wrote. "They were cautioned not to wear their uniforms while traveling home or off the military base. Some were spit on, cussed at, and called 'baby killers,' but they were never 'welcomed home.' "
Former Sgt. Ted Riccubuono of Las Vegas, who helped organize the reunion, said that when he and his buddies returned to the United States, they were disenchanted with the war but "more disillusioned by the American public," which for the most part shunned them with attitudes of hostility, coldness and indifference.
Helping Salas contact the former Marines for the reunion "tugged at me," Riccubuono said.
"This past 10 months has been the greatest journey I've been on in the past 47 years," he said.
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Why our national parks have become dinosaurs
Posted Monday, August 23 2010 at 00:00
The present-day park and reserve system is in fact a dinosaur that faces imminent extinction driven largely by the destabilising change in landscapes and ecosystems as a result of the complex, uncertain and nonlinear dynamics of human population growth around parks and reserves, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation and climate change.
To preserve wildness as much as possible has become Mission Impossible.
What is worrying is that despite the evidence of their inefficacy, conservation authorities in East Africa still believe parks and reserves, as conceived a century ago, to be the only tools for biodiversity conservation.
Ecological understanding and management policies of the 1900s are no longer tenable in the context of 21st century socio-ecological imperatives.
Cutting-edge ecological understanding has moved on but park-centric conservation practice seems immutable.
I know few ecologists who still believe that in the absence of human disturbance, natural ecological processes will lead inevitably to ecological balance.
Diversity of resources
Today, parks and reserves in East Africa, large or small, are islands in a sea of humanity.
They are isolated and wildlife is trapped in habitats that lack the requisite diversity of resources.
Historical migration corridors that predate parks and reserves and that hitherto enabled spatial and temporal distribution of resource utilisation are either threatened or no longer accessible.
Spatial connectivity among currently isolated parks and reserves has the best chance to preserve ecological memory, optimum diversity, and adaptive self-renewal, a key component of ecological resilience.
Resilience in this context is the capacity of parks or reserves to absorb disturbances — drought, floods, habitat degradation, disease epidemics — and reorganise while undergoing change, so as to retain essentially the same function and structure — savannah, forest, wetland).
Designing spatial connectivity among parks and reserves must take a holistic ecosystems approach.
This means that the location and connectivity of parks and reserves must be based on a dynamic understanding of how wildlife uses landscape components, especially pasture and water.
We have much to learn from the centuries old migration corridors of wildebeest to inform the design principles for spatial connectivity between and among parks and reserves, both at national and regional levels.


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Sysex and Live 9 – is it now possible?
This is a question that despite my best efforts I can't get answered, put simply:
Can an M4L device send SYSEX out through Ableton's Midi ports? I was previously of the understanding that Ableton filtered SYSEX on the way out, is this still the case with V9?
Basically all I want to do is build devices to edit parameters on pre-CC synths. I have built devices for more modern machines like the Roland Gaia but would like to do the same with things like D50's etc etc.
it's my understanding that you can use objects such as thesE:
to get access to sysex data "around" Live, instead of through it.
Thanks Wetterberg, that's sounds just like what I need. Thankyou very much for the heads-up
any chance you could share your Roland Gaia patch? Would love to integrate my keyboard more closely. Thanks, Gen
Sadly I've had some issues getting Leigh's objects to working in 64 bit, the alternative I've come up with is to manage the sysex in/out in Max and build the control surface in M4L, syncing between these OSC. I actually find I prefer this system now for managing patch storage etc.
I've got controllers for the D-50, Alpha Juno 2, ESQ-1, DW8000 and a few others I use, I'll post them when I get the chance.
I have no idea about M4L, I'm uses only Max. not sure this will help you.
when I work with SysEx I need to create patch like below
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hei brooke –
it'd be amazing (!) if you could post an exemplary patch of yours.
and: do you run your max-part of the sysex-code from within the max application or did you create a standalone device?
any clue which of the two is more performant?
Hi Brooke,
How much work does the standalone app do? Are you prepping the sysex in MaxForLive and sending it as a message via OSC, or are you sending the app controller values and then converting that to sysex?
I only have MaxForLive. I wanted to put together a MaxForLive device for the Matrix 6/6R/1000. I believe I could make the device send the sysex pre-formatted over OSC. With that said, I cannot build a standalone device that receives sysex over OSC and sends it off as midi.
Any chance you can share this? I will be most happy to share my Matrix 6 device with the entire audio community if I can make this happen :)
PS – this is a serious limitation in Ableton Live. I understand not implementing a way for Live to parse sysex, but to completely truncate it even when originating from a MaxForLive device is excessive and frustrating to say the least…
I found this – http://cycling74.com/toolbox/midi-and-osc-mapper/ which lead to this http://lamplightforestboutique.com/control-core-midi-osc.html but I am on PC … /sigh
- This reply was modified 2 years by Matias. Reason: added new info
Woops sorry hadn't noticed updates in the thread.
Benzzzz – Either, packaging it into a max application is just a convenience for people that dont have Max, they are both very fast since we're just dealing with messages.
Basically I'm working on a way to send OSC messages from Live to be converted into Sysex messages by an app (built in Max, packaged as an executable/app), that has a library of OSC<>MIDI sysex conversions availa. That way you can build a M4L device that has all your gui details and save the device state as a live preset that sends its state as a dump message when it's loaded.
Previously I'd been building a OSC<>MIDI conversion app for each device I wanted to control, but now I realise building an app that lets you simply select a sysex format to use from a list and tells you what OSC messages to send there would be much easier. Once you get used to writing sysex editors doing a bunch of them is a breeeze, older devices have occasional quirks though.
I'll work on things later this week then post the patch to github. It'd be great to have some collaborators so we can design nice editors for all those midi devices.
Live not having sysex is a serious limitation, almost as bad as being restriced to midi channel 1 in M4L. But I think designing a OSC to sysex conversion app is actually a superior way to deal with managing sysex.
+1 for the silliness of the midi limitations in live. filtering of duplicate CC messages, no sysex, midi channel limitations. Would love to see this all go away!
i've got a stack of external gear here (dsi, moog, korg, kawai, hohner…). i was planning to beginn a librarian-patch asap, but would very much more like to help out / collaborate. if desired also with the annoying part of interfacing / gui (i recently did m4l's 'polyrhythmus' as a visual reference if wished for).
thanks brooke! we need a decent tool for preset management!
- This reply was modified 2 years by benniy.
Thank you very much for your reply Brooke.
I maybe misunderstood what you said, so apologies if the following is already what you were describing.
Would it not be easier to have the standalone simply receive a sysex message in the form of a list over OSC, and then send the individual values of the list off to MIDI? My understanding is that any device will automatically know something is sysex if it receives F0h. So if the standalone receives /sysex "F0 xx xx xx xx xx .. F7" then it can forward that off as raw midi data, symbol by symbol (or int by int, if we do "240 xx xx xx .. 247") to the corresponding MIDI channel to get the sysex message through. Of course the symbols would need to be converted to bytes.
This would allow the standalone to simply be responsible for MIDI routing and all the heavy work to be done inside MaxForLive. The standalone becomes just a wrapper to overcome the lack of sysex in Live. We can go further and choose different network ports for different MaxForLive "sysex controllers," with each port corresponding to a different midi port or channel, and then it becomes a sort of wrapper/router. Please let me know your thoughts. I'm about to patch this together in MaxForLive. I would just be unable to compile it, but I'll share what I come up with shortly.
PS – once the wrapper implementation is established, I call dibs for the matrix 6,6r,1k for the MaxForLive "sysex controller" design :) I tried to call dibs on the alpha juno, but as I reread the thread, I see you've already got one made for yourself!
going off my thoughts from earlier regarding the type of list to send, I think a list of ints is ideal. if you monitor sxformat with a print, you'll see it spits out the bytes (ints) sequentially as I suggested the standalone should. patcher incoming tomorrow (I hope) .. I became quite busy today, so I apologize for not having something ready by now.
OK! Patcher time. This is a very simple example of what I feel may be the most light-weight and effective way to get sysex out of Live and into our synths.
I originally planned to use OSC messages like so "/sysex 240 xx xx xx xx 247" and then send that off to a port on the computer, where the standalone application "OSC-routes" /sysex to get to the actual list of ints for the midi. Then, I remembered that CNMAT updates their externals versions at different rates for different objects and OSes. Furthermore, there is no need for the tree/branch/twig address arrangement with this implementation. So I wondered why I needed OSC at all. I thought maybe it was necessary to properly use the network functions, but Max sends data just fine without OSC.
Please note the two different ways I thought about transmitting the midi data. I personally feel that it's more robust to send each sysex message as a list, even if it requires the use of an extra object in the standalone, but you may disagree with these semantics (I just think that we may stall the receiving midi device in the rare chance that the sysex end byte doesn't get through between udpsend and udpreceive).
If anyone (willing to compile this thing up) likes this idea, I will develop it further with a UI to allow the user to enter midi port and channel. If at that point, things are still running smoothly and the application proves useful, we can work on adding multiple network ports for different sysex receiving midi devices.
(btw this is the first time I post a patcher up like this .. so if something is screwy, I'll give it another try)
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- This reply was modified 2 years by Matias.
Nice thinking Matias, since (all?) sysex lists have the manufacturer and model in the list that makes routing messages easier as well.
It should be fine to manage all this with udpsend/receive, since its just a simpler osc subset.
I'll post up an example for the D-50 at the end of the week, sorry things are a bit crazy right now. Feel free to come up with a alpha juno editor, mine is just a bunch of number boxes atm.
OK .. here are the beta products.
Max_Midi_oIP_Thru should be run from Max or compiled as a standalone device. It's a very simple and lightweight device. The user chooses the network port the device should "listen on," the user selects the midi port the data will be forwarded to, and the device repeats whatever comes through the network port as midi bytes to the midi port.
I removed the "iter" object as upon closer investigation of the midiout object, I learned that it can take a list and parse that as individual bytes on its own. I was unable to figure out how to specify what channel it should midi-thru stuff on, and since I don't have an actual copy of Max, I can't know exactly how the midi port drop down populates. In theory though, I think the logic is sound; the midi channel may just be defaulting to 1 or something.
Alpha_Juno_SysEx_oIP is the MaxForLive device that transmits the SysEx to the standalone device. It takes user input for every control on the Alpha Juno and transmits it as a packaged sysex message, a list of ints, to whatever port the user chooses within the local machine. I took inspiration from the original Alpha Juno controller, the PG 300… not a potentiometer in sight :)
So for those that have Max, MaxForLive, and an Alpha Juno, I hope this thing works correctly! I shall wait patiently for a kind soul to compile Max_Midi_oIP_Thru into a standalone executable to be able test it out as well :) From here the challenge is figuring out how to select midi channel when using the midiout object, updating the standalone to allow multiple devices to be used concurrently, and creating more templates for other midi-sysex devices. I am open to any and all critique/feedback of both devices, so I look forward to hearing from interested parties!
EDIT – I made a small correction (I forgot to change the key for the VCA envelope type to "Gate"). I updated this and re-uploaded the file thinking it would overwrite what was already uploaded. It didn't, so now there are two files, the newest one is Alpha_Juno_SysEx_oIP1. Functionally, both files are the same.
throwing a little bump out there :)
Ok here's a quick (naive) implementation of how this would work. With the alpha Juno. Just checked and all the editing controls seem to work.
Unfortunately after looking at the midi spec the alpha juno doesn't have a device id, at lease one that follows the manufacturer id, which somewhat spoils the idea of having the sysex message identify what kind of device is sending sysex easily I was hoping for.
I've made a few changes to your m4L interface on this basis, and am instead sending the message /sysex/[manufacturer]/[device].
I'm leaning more to handling all the logic in max when it comes to handling preset dumps and updating on patch changes etc. I'm thinking about something like having m4L send and receive /sysex/[manufacturer]/[device/param [control] [value] and /sysex/[manufacturer]/[device/dump [list…] for presets.
But if people want to handle all the midi messaging in m4L, well that's very easy. I've included 'simple' versions of the patches for that.
Thank you for checking out the work and offering your insight. I'll be checking out the edited patch tonight or maybe tomorrow night depending on the time I have available.
I like your idea of using OSC to break up the sysex code. I considered leaving OSC out of the picture due to the extra memory, cpu cycle requirements, and compatibility issues across different OSes. While there is a benefit to using OSC for preset dumps, it is important to note that for real time patch editing, a parameter will start out as a control change, then it will get packaged to an OSC message, and then it will get parsed to sysex. I felt going straight from CC to sysex would be less bloat, but maybe I'm being overly paranoid about overall performance.
I am still concerned though that after the first two sysex bytes ("sysex start" and manufacturer id), it's essentially an anything goes situation between different hardware, as you've found. Never-the-less, we can work around that. If you look at the differences in sysex between the 106 and alphas (http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/sysex.php), you'll see that the third byte is still different between the two synth engines. We can utilize it to id our devices, even if the manufacturer didn't intend that third byte to denote the device id. While I was reviewing the sysex implementation in the alpha juno for the device id being missing, I also figured out where the midi channel is specified, so this can be properly implemented now :)
I'll check out what you've put together and recap again soon. Cheers and, again, thank you very much for your time and efforts.
- This reply was modified 2 years by Matias.
Cool, yeah I see the merits of both approaches. I was just looking ahead to maybe automatically identifying the sysex message format and translating it. But simplicity has some definite strengths.
Check out the simple versions, it's just an osc to to midi converter than has no expectations for messages (other than maybe 240 … 255 to be added). It's closer to your vision I think. I'll look into update management and presets for that when I get a chance
I finally got some time to go over this, and I gave the non-simple version some thought. Attached are the results.
I implemented midi channel selection to the alpha juno template. Then, since you added the osc address to the maxforlive device, and you mentioned you wanted to keep the logic in the midi manager, I took out the "global" sysex out of the messages being sent out of the maxforlive device (ie the alphajuno template).
I edited the midimanager to make it "intelligent" so that it would re-add the correct sysex based on the osc address. I left everything un-abstracted for the sake of visibility / simplicity, but eventually there would be an abstraction for every sysex midi device that the manager supports.
I still only have MaxForLive, so I still cannot test out the work that has been done :( By the size of the patcher windows, I take it you're on a mac… is there any way for you to compile the midimanager into an executable for windows?
Please vote for Ableton to support sysex on Centercode – this is where Ableton support directed me to. You need to create an account to access it but the developers do monitor requests here and the number of votes they get so it is definitely worth it if you want this feature :)
I joined centercode just to upvote this – the SysEx issue has been bothering me for over five years, and here it is bothering me yet again on a new project.
Unfortunately, even now I've created an account and signed in, I can't find any such pages on the site. Could it be that they got deleted? :-(
Hi everyone,
I am not a frequent M4L user but used it occasionally for some stuff that Ableton alone cannot do.
I have noticed that you Brooke have managed to create something I need and would gladly pay for. Is it possible to have your ESQ-1 patch as I recently started using my ESQ again and would love to control it from Ableton.
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OBJECTIVES * Position our business to capture growth opportunities in the asset finance market and further improve profitability. * Provide an operationally excellent platform to our customers and business partners, such as automotive dealers and finance brokers. * Attract and retain talented people to our business. GROUP TREASURY Rick Sawers The banker to all ANZ businesses. Charged with providing cash flow support, ensuring liquidity, managing interest rate risk and providing capital to the businesses FULL FULL MOVT YEAR YEAR SEP 02 SEP 02 SEP 01 V. SEP 01 $M $M % Net interest income 200 124 61% Other external operating income (1) 8 n/a Net inter business unit fees - (1) -100% OPERATING INCOME 199 131 52% External operating expenses (15) (14) 7% Net inter business unit expenses (6) (6) - OPERATING EXPENSES (21) (20) 5% PROFIT BEFORE DEBT PROVISION 178 111 60% Provision for doubtful debts - - n/a PROFIT BEFORE INCOME TAX 178 111 60% Income tax expense and outside equity interests (54) (36) 50% NET PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY 124 75 65% Total employees 46 45 2% 2002 RESULTS * Net profit was cyclically strong in 2002, rising to $124 million (65% increase on the previous year). This was due to an increase in the investment term of assets and favourable funding conditions during the uncertain global economic environment. * In Australia, conditions were mixed with different parts of the business being impacted by Global events. Funding conditions for ANZ were excellent given its strong credit rating which is attractive to wholesale international investors. The strong demand for secure investments in wholesale markets was mirrored in domestic markets, consequently our retail depositor base also grew strongly leading to a stronger overall funding base. * The RBA changed the direction of the interest rate cycle by increasing interest rates by 0.25% twice in mid-2002. Further tightening was expected and built into market interest rates, however, such tightening has now been deferred due to the deteriorating global environment. The interest rate mismatch during this period of interest rate volatility was managed well with risk being contained. FEATURES OF THE SECOND HALF * As expected, earnings growth plateaued in line with the apparent bottoming of the global economic cycle as funding costs began to face upward pressure. In response to this development, the duration of assets has been reduced for the time being given that their attraction is diminishing due to the flatness of the yield curve. * Looking ahead to 2003, it is expected that this period will provide reasonable funding and earnings opportunities in treasury products, however, there is a possibility that the uncertain conditions of 2002 will continue. Group Treasury's priority is to ensure that the balance sheet is optimally structured for all economic scenarios so as to ensure stability of earnings is achieved as much as is practical. WHOLESALE FUNDING * ANZ's AUD $19 billion of term wholesale funding has grown from $A3.0 billion in 1998. * $A5.3 billion debt issued in 2002 via 81 transactions. * Portfolio is diversified by both type and currency with a weighted average term to maturity of 2.6 years. * New term debt issuance for 2002/03 is planned at between AUD $6 - $7 billion with an average term of 4 years. LIQUIDITY PORTFOLIO * ANZ maintains an $8.0 billion portfolio of high quality, diversified, highly liquid securities to support payment obligations and contingent funding in the event of a market disruption. * The portfolio is managed on a global basis through the Group's major funding centres, ie: Melbourne, New York, London, Wellington and Singapore. CAPITAL MANAGEMENT * The Group's central capital management target is formulated around Adjusted Common Equity with a benchmark of ACE/RWA in the range of 5.25% to 5.75%. * Capital management at ANZ seeks to optimise return to shareholders, ensure growth in the business and maintain low cost of capital through prudent risk management. * NZD$300 million subordinated debt was issued in the domestic New Zealand market. * AUD $500 million subordinated debt was issued in the domestic Australian market. ACHIEVEMENTS * Effectively managed response to September 11, 2001 by maintaining unrestricted access to world capital markets and increasing liquidity portfolio while increasing earnings 65% over 2001. * Reviewed and restructured Tier 2 capital in Australia and New Zealand incorporating the $NZD300 million subordinated debt issued in New Zealand, $AUD500 million subordinated debt issued in Australia and exercised early redemption option of $USD125 million subordinated debt issued in New Zealand. * Investigated balance sheet efficiency through portfolio optimisation by researching world's best practice of leading practitioners. OBJECTIVES * Continuing to improve the quality of our core funding and maintaining a minimum level of Customer to Wholesale funding in excess of 60%. * Enhancing the liquidity management framework. * Developing the portfolio management initiative in order to ensure increased access to the growing wholesale market for credit risk and facilitate improved liquidity of bank assets. * Stabilising income as we move into a higher interest rate environment. * Preparing ANZ for regulatory changes associated with Basel II and APRA. CORPORATE CENTRE David Boyles Shane Freeman Peter Hawkins Mark Lawrence Peter Marriott ANZ's Corporate Centre is a diverse range of Group functions largely represented by Operations, Technology and Support Services with the balance comprising Group Strategy; People Capital; Risk Management and Chief Financial Officers Units FULL FULL MOVT YEAR YEAR SEP 02 SEP 02 SEP 01 V. SEP 01 $M $M % Net interest income 87 108 -19% Other external operating income 94 2 large Net inter business unit fees 91 94 -3% OPERATING INCOME 272 204 33% External operating expenses (801) (792) 1% Net inter business unit expenses 586 581 1% OPERATING EXPENSES (215) (211) 2% PROFIT BEFORE DEBT PROVISION 57 (7) n/a Provision for doubtful debts (86) (4) large PROFIT BEFORE INCOME TAX (29) (11) large Income tax expense and outside equity interests 8 (31) n/a NET PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY (21) (42) -50% Total employees 5,500 5,362 3% 2002 RESULTS The result for Corporate Centre was a loss of $21 million, compared with a loss of $42 million in 2001. Operating income was $68 million higher, mainly reflecting three factors. Firstly, 2001 included $30 million losses from discontinued businesses. Secondly, the appreciation of the Australian dollar against the US dollar and a reduction in the level of hedging improved the impact of USD revenue hedges by $32 million. Finally, reductions in US interest rates resulted in higher hedge income from an interest rate swap which covers the USD payments to holders of preference shares (TrUEPrs). This was offset by reduced net interest income earned on the floating rate asset pool which is part funded by the TrUEPrs proceeds. Provision for doubtful debts was $82 million higher, including central charges of $72 million that recognise the continued uncertainty in the international economic outlook. FEATURES OF THE SECOND HALF * The loss for the second half reduced from $12 million to $9 million. Higher net interest income from earnings on capital repatriated from Tokyo was offset by an increased central provision for doubtful debts. This increased central provision is based on moving the credit profile of our offshore structured finance portfolio down one grade on our internal rating scale. Our policy is to recognise such portfolio adjustments centrally. GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT * ANZ's largest corporate exposures were materially reduced in 2002. * Industry leading operational risk measurement framework further embedded within business units. * Global recognition was received for ANZ's risk management framework in 2002. * Going forward, Group Risk Management will continue to provide specialist risk leadership and oversight in a dynamically evolving business environment. Our commitment is to further improve the Group's core risk management processes to ensure that ANZ remains at the forefront of risk management capability within the financial services sector. OPERATIONS, TECHNOLOGY AND SHARED SERVICES (OTSS) * Implemented a Group-wide Common Administration System providing access to financial information, General Ledger, HR functions, Procurement, Accounts payable and Fixed Asset processes in Australia and New Zealand. * Introduced the use of cheque image archives for faster response to customer enquiries and internal efficiency. * Delivered major new projects for cards processing, retail sales and service, customer transaction processing, high value payments, customer relationship management, corporate banking, risk management and new capabilities for mortgage originators. * OTSS is ensuring its technology infrastructure is robust, flexible and cost effective. Costs are being reduced and productivity improved. GROUP STRATEGY * Group Strategy has continued its work on strengthening the Pacific franchise through the Bank of Hawaii operations acquisition as well as repositioning ANZ's Funds/Wealth Management business through the development and commencement of the INGA joint venture. * Group Strategy continues its focus on achieving organic out-performance across all of the Group's businesses. PEOPLE CAPITAL * People Capital has continued its wide scale roll out of ANZ's Breakout cultural change program. To date, 5,000 Managers have attended Breakout sessions and 100 internal ANZ Breakout Champions have been developed. * ANZ continues to create a work environment that recognises the need to balance work and family. Family friendly policies including paid paternal leave for co-partners, telecommuting and job sharing have been implemented. * Future strength is being built by developing organisational capability through attracting, developing and retaining ANZ's best people. * ANZ is one of the largest recruiters of graduates in the private sector recruiting approximately 200 new graduates in Australia and 30 in New Zealand. CFO UNITS * CFO Units has implemented a new General Ledger for Australia and New Zealand (in conjunction with Operations, Technology and Shared Services). * ANZ has received several awards that recognise the quality of ANZ's financial disclosure. ANZ is committed to providing full and timely information to all stakeholders. * Refinements continue to be made to Group-wide strategy planning. MORE TO FOLLOW


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For the fourth year in a row, the Boone Dawdle, our summer excursion and fundraiser, was a rollicking good time. We want to send a hearty thank you to everyone that made August 17, 2013 a day to remember. Thank you to the dawdlers of all kinds: riders, party-goers, sponsors, musicians, filmmakers, guests, volunteers and staff.
A legion of volunteers once again pitched in with their time and talents. Among them were our photo team, Stephen Bybee, Kevin Dingman and Ryan Henriksen. We'll be looking back through the images they captured. If you want to see even more pics of the Dawdle, check out their Facebook photo albums here, here and here.
Things got underway on Saturday afternoon with some important assistance from our friends at Walt's Bicycle, Fitness and Wilderness. They offered all of the riders a tune-up before our departure.
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Other pleasant interruptions in our journey through the woods included games, a trivia contest, an advice machine, a lunar explorer photo cut-out and snacks and drinks courtesy of our culinary contributors.
We also got our first chance to meet our special guest Christopher Carson, the star of the evening's film, Lunarcy! Christopher intends to be the first human being to live his life on the moon. He shared his bold vision for lunar colonization with characteristic gusto and wit.
At the end of the long, fun-filled trip, we faced the final daunting hill. A little encouragement was definitely in order, and cheerleaders from Rock Bridge, Hickman and Battle High Schools were kind enough to oblige.
Waiting for us in Rocheport was a sumptuous spread prepared by our friends Chelsea, Josh and Curtis and the rest of the amazing people at Les Bourgeois Winery. After grabbing some food and drink, we found seats, relaxed and hung-out on the beautiful limestone bluff overlooking the Missouri River.
Next, we were treated to a concert by Yes, Ma'am. The group joined us all the way from the streets of the Big Easy to share their authentic blend of gritty country, pounding blues and old fashioned rock-in-roll.
And before the film began, the T/F production crew treated us to a magnificent fireworks display.
The 2013 Boone Dawdle film was Lunarcy! Simon Ennis's hilarious and inspiring documentary debut introduces us to a series of passionate dreamers who have built lives around the moon and its place in human destiny. After we watched the film out under the heavens, Simon and the subject Christopher Carson brought our evening to fitting conclusion with a charming and earnest Q and A.
Thank you again to everyone mentioned above. As inspiring as what happened in these photographs was, we assure you what went on behind the scenes was even more remarkable. Our tech team was up working late the night before, transforming the bluffs into an outdoor cinema. Volunteers hauled water and gear into the middle of nowhere, loaded countless bikes into trucks for the trip back to CoMo and stayed up past 2 am cleaning up the party. Our sherpa team stepped up in a big way, hauling bikes up the hill for hours. First Student provided bus transportation to get everyone back home for the night. And our dedicated staff put in the long hours at the Lab, making all of the details shine.
And, of course, our crazy schemes wouldn't amount to anything without our sponsors. This year's Dawdle was made possible by generous support of Delta Systems, Walt's Bicycle, Fitness and Wilderness, Mountain Valley Spring Water, Les Bourgeois Vineyards, 102.3 BXR, The Columbia Daily Tribune and the Courtyard Marriott Columbia.
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