Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!unmvax!ariel!xochitl!bonzo
From: bonzo@xochitl.UUCP (Matt L. Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: music typesetting & text notation..
Message-ID: <221@xochitl.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:45:28 GMT
References: <1403@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1842@cs.yale.edu> <1989Oct22.165016.23978@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: bonzo@xochitl.UUCP (Matt L. Armstrong)
Organization: Ed's Research Emporium
Lines: 29

In article <1989Oct22.165016.23978@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.UManitoba.CA (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
>I'm using Personal Composer/2 with my IBM XT, Roland MPU401 midi interface.
>The Personal Composer is a very good sequencer and music typesetting.
>
>It is a wondeful software.
>
>Budi Rahardjo

Unless this is a new version of PC/2, I'd almost be willing to say that
you haven't used if very long.  Based on my experience with it (my dad
was running it with his MT-32 and K-1) it looks good on paper and looks
pretty good for a short while of running it, but I had about 5 different
times when the workspace got corrupted and things went quite awry.  Things
like the note off that corresponded to a given note on event was put ahead
of the note on and other such nastiness.

I was never able to get a call through on the support line to report the
bugs I found.  Always busy.

If you're just going to use it for writing up scores, it might do an ok
job of it.  If you're planning on using it for sequencing, forget it.

Dad eventually got an ST and Notator.  I don't know what kind of job this
does for printing but he likes the feel of it for composition so far.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   Matt Armstrong - Guru-In-Training - Part-Time Hacker - Starving Bassist
  `"initial.c", line 302: warning: '9' is not a standard octal digit'  - cc
     ...ucbvax!unmvax!ariel!xochitl!bonzo             bonzo@edsr.eds.com