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From: snowdond@r2.cs.man.ac.uk (D.N.Snowdon (MSc PJ))
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Subject: Re: Roland D-10 and Music-X on Amiga
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Date: 6 Dec 90 14:07:48 GMT
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In article <1837@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
>In article <1990Nov30.110144.22714@assari.tut.fi> s117986@lehtori.tut.fi (Salmij{rvi Janne) writes:
>>
>>Has anyone made or is there available a soundtransferprotocol for    
>>Music-X (on amiga) and Roland D-10 ?
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>
>Yup, I made a protocol for the Roland GR-50 guitar synth, which is basically
>a guitar synth wrapped around a D-110. Contact MicroIllusions and ask about
>their forthcoming "Procotols Only" disk.
>
>Best Sequencer? Music-X v.1.1, just released. Without a doubt.        
  
  Alternatively, there is a program called 4D Companion
available from a British software house which is a patch
editor & librarian for the Roland D series of synths (D5, D10,
D20, D110). It didn't multitask properly with a friends
copy of Music X when I tried it, but I've since heard that
Music X is being updated to correct a bug in their MIDI
code which affected applications which tried to use the
serial port while Music X was suspended.
  I haven't used a GR50 (though I wouldn't mind getting one)
but I have heard that some of the parameters differ from
the D range of synths.
  The company is called Gajits (phone [UK] 061 434 2768) I can    38  find their address if anyone wants it. They also do a
similar program for the CM range of modules. They don't have
a US distributor at the moment so you would have to get it
directly from them (they do direct mail order).

PS I should mention that I am heavily biased as I wrote the
Amiga versions of these programs.

     Dave Snowdon (snowdond@uk.ac.man.cs.r2)
These days you have to be pretty technical before you can
aspire to being crude. (Johnny Mnemonic, William Gibson)