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From: brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MIDI advice sought.
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Date: 20 Oct 89 21:49:59 GMT
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My desire is to get into music composition, not having any formal training.
I have looked at a few keyboards, and have found the Roland D-5 to be
sufficient for my needs (8 voices plus drums).  Now, the hard part.

Realizing the rivalry between Amiga and Atari exists, I ask those of you
with some experience with both machines to help someone to decide the 
"best path for my particular needs."

I am aware, also, that both Commodore and Atari will have new machines out
soon.  This may be under the category of sci-fi, though.

In any case, I shy away from small systems, like the A500, for future support
reasons, and the fact I will necessarily need large memory (~1 MB RAM to
begin with).

I am afraid, however, that local support of both machines is spotty here
in Portland, Oregon.  Sure, there's PC's (dull, number-crunching-intensive
machines), and there's MAC's (too overpriced).  Is there an optimum solution?
Money is, of course, an issue.  A few grand is ok for a music system, CPU,
a word processor, and a couple games.  But for amounts over that, I think I
will simply crawl back into my shell and wait for cheaper times ahead.

Thank you so much.



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Brandon G. Lovested          |	"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped,
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brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM  |	 My life is my own."  
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