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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: MIDI question
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Date: 2 Aug 90 18:30:14 GMT
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In article <14290@wpi.wpi.edu> jayg@wpi.wpi.edu (Jay Giurleo) writes:
> So here's the question: What should she look for in software? She
>doesn't need anything professional, but it should be reliable at least..
>and not impossible to figure out. Being a Mac person myself, I thought I
>would direct this question to those who REALLY know the software. Also,
>if you could E-mail this response to me, I would appreciate it.
>Thanks!

I would have emailed but we're experiencing email troubles with nntp
for some reason today. Two points to make :

#1) Once you record MIDI data, playing it back is never really quite
    as satisfying because you can hear where you missed a key or hit
    something a little to hard, etc. And heck, since its just a bunch
    of data why don't we go an fix it? But wait we need to find the 
    event in all this data. Ok did that, but wait I wish that melody
    line was a Piano instead of a Harpsichord, ... Anyway you start
    wanting to play games with it and suddenly you _must have_ a 
    sequencer. Several are available, I've got 4, I prefer Music-X.

#2) I've been playing around with Bill Barton's freely distributable
    midi.library functions and find them extremely easy to use. You
    could probably write a midi "recorder" and playback function in
    about 2 nights (one to read the doc, one to write/debug the code)
    That would be free to you so could get to the _must have_ a sequencer
    point with all of your cash intact. 


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