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From: gene@ntvax.uucp (Gene De Lisa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: music was:Will the Next sell?
Message-ID: <1989Dec3.235945.29655@ntvax.uucp>
Date: 3 Dec 89 23:59:45 GMT
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Reply-To: gene@ntvax.UUCP (Gene De Lisa)
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In article <9865@zodiac.ADS.COM> jtn@ads.com (John Nelson) writes:
>
>I'm currently making a similar decision.  I need a machine that will
>support music applications.  The NeXT hardware was tailor made for
>musicians but wait a minute... where's the sequencers?  Where's the
>notation packages?  Where'is the editor/librarians etc etc.
>Sure, NeXT has music and sound objects that will let you write that
>stuff ... but nobody has written it yet.  Thus the Mac wins for
>existing software and functionality even though it lags in sexy
>hardware.

There have been quite a few music programs ported to the NeXT already.
(do you read this newgroup?)

If you just want to run MIDI stuff you don't need a NeXT; stay with your
toaster.  If you want to make music the NeXT wins.  The major problem is
that the NeXT is still too damn expensive.
-- 
Gene De Lisa
gene@dept.csci.unt.edu

You really don't need a clever quote here.