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From: weissman@gnome9.pa.dec.com (Terry Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Music notation software?
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Date: 30 Oct 89 23:05:12 GMT
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In article <9496@pyr.gatech.EDU>, davidc@pyr.gatech.EDU (David Carter) writes:
> There most certainly is!  A company called Blue Ribbon Bakery, here in 
> Atlanta, is just about to release their new program called "Bars and
Pipes."  > 	...
> See the review and ad in the November AmigaWorld, pages 118-9.


Thanks for the tip!  I just dashed out and bought the November
AmigaWorld and read the review and ad.  It looks like a wonderful
sequencer, with lots of innovative features and ideas that I haven't
seen before.  However, it doesn't seem to have too much in the way of
making printed scores.  I called them and they confirmed this; there is
some ability to view your stuff in standard music notation form, but no
real printing capability.  They claimed, though, that their package made
a better front-end to the Copyist than other sequencers, since their
internal model is more musical and thus they save more useful
information out to the standard Midi files.  Who knows; it may even be true...

Anyway, they're sending me brochures with lots more information; I'll
try to remember to give a summary when I get it.  I also have pricing
and availability information:

- Starts shipping in three weeks (I never know whether to believe this
kind of cliam).

- Price is $299; there will be a 30-day introductory price of $235.

- They say that in the material that they'll be sending will be a coupon
good for a free demo version.  (The demo won't be able to load or save files.)

For more info, you can contact them at:

Blue Ribbon Bakery
1248 Clairmont Road, Suite 3D
Atlanta, Georgia 30030
(404) 377-1514

If you've actually seen a demo of Bars&Pipes, I'd love to hear what kind
of abilities you saw that related to the printing of musical scores.

- Terry Weissman		weissman@wsl.dec.com