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This article is from the Electronic and Computer Music FAQ, by Craig Latta Craig.Latta@NetJam.ORG with numerous contributions by others.

3.1.2.7) What is Nutation and... well, you know. (Electronic and Computer Music)

From: grd@cmn2.stanford.edu (glen diener) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Date: 24 Feb 1993 18:57:52 -0600

Version 3.0 of Nutation, a music notation program for
the NeXT machine, is available via anonymous ftp from
machine ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu as pub/Nu.pkg.tar.

Nutation is freeware.

Resource requirements

. A NeXT machine
. NextStep release 3.0 or higher
. At least 3.8 megabytes of disk space
. Adobe Sonata font installed (not provided;
available commercially, ~ $100 US).
. MusicKit 3.0 or higher installed (free, available
via anonymous ftp from ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu)
Features

. Immediate playback of your inventions on the DSP
. Highly interactive graphic user interface
. (Fairly) extensive on-line NeXTStep-style help
. Completely "customizable"...Nutation is
actually a "visual programming environment" for
music notation, built on top of ObjC. Programming
features include rich text source code, class browsers,
inspectors...in short, a complete incrementally-loading
run-time development system loosely modelled after
Smalltalk-80.

To install Nutation:

Installing Nutation takes 5-10 minutes.

Obtain the file Nu.pkg.tar. This file can be retrieved
via anonymous ftp from the /pub directory of ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu.
Be sure to specify binary transfer mode.

Unpack the contents of this file (it is a tar archive) using any convenient facility. My preference is to execute

tar xf Nu.pkg.tar

in a Terminal window.

This will create a NeXT-style called Nu.pkg, together with
installation instructions in Nu.Install.Readme.rtfd. Open
Nu.Install.Readme.rtfd by clicking on its icon...it contains detailed
instructions on installing and running Nutation.

-glen diener
grd@ccrma.stanford.edu

Cody Coggins <acoggins@phoenix.princeton.edu> says, "I've used
Nutation a bit myself, and I could answer some basic questions about
it or provide pointers to further documentation."

 

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