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From: walkerb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Brian Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MIDI software for Atari ST
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Date: 15 Sep 89 08:10:31 GMT
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In article <34269@grapevine.uucp> sgrimm@sun.com (Steven Grimm) writes:
>I bought a Yamaha PSR-47 keyboard yesterday, just to play around with some
>basic musicmaking.  I'd really like to drive the thing from my Atari ST,
>too; can anyone recommend good software?  If there's a public domain program,
>please submit it to comp.binaries.atari.st so I can take a look.  (I'm sort
>of surprised there isn't something in the archive already -- with built-in
>MIDI ports, the Atari seems a natural candidate for good PD music software...)
>I'm willing to pay for a good program, too, so don't be shy about recommending
>your favorite commercial software.  So far the only thing I've found to drive
>the synth is "Marble Madness," so I guess I've found that program's single
>redeeming feature ( :-) -- I wish they'd spent half the time on the ST version
>as they did on the Amiga one, but that's another article...)
>
I dink around with Music Studio and a Casio MT-240 keyboard.  It's a nice
program and uses musical notation to represent the notes.  You can put music
in relatively painlessly, as many have done already.  The program works
well and there are quite a few song files available out there.  It's
kind of fun to watch the notes drift across the screen as they are
played on the synth.  Music Studio also offers a rudimentary MIDI input
feature that approximates the length of the notes played.  Altogether, it's
not bad for something in the $50 range.  Audio Light, the makers of Music
Studio, also make a PD player version but you really need the official
version or something to edit the song files because most of the songs are
written for the Casio CZ-101 synths.

There are a few PD MIDI programs available in Public Domain and
Internet.  They are not much and I wish there were more available.  The
local user's group has some programs in it's archives plus a large
array of Music Studio song files.  I guess I could dump some of these
files to an archive or comp.binaries while people with GENIE or
Compu$erve access could perhaps round up a few choice programs as well
(hint, hint).

Brian Walker, University of Colorado at Boulder
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