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From: nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga SEQUENCERS
Keywords: sequencers midi
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.002937.23128@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 00:29:37 GMT
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In article <17299@brahms.udel.edu>, jon@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:
> I am becomming frustrated with the selection of sequencers
> out for the Amiga.

Which ones have you tried?

> Every program seems to have it's falling.

That is commonly true on all machines.

> Is there a sequencer that is just plain 'ol TERRIFIC???
> One that supports variable-length patterns that can get mapped
> onto tracks?  One that DOESN'T CRASH? (or BOTH????)

Music-X has never crashed for me in two years.  You can put any length anything
into any sequence and do anything with it you want.  In that respect, it's
about as powerful as anything I've ever seen.

I have other complaints with the program, but it does seem to address those
particular issues.

> I look at the Mac and DOS sequencers and they seem FAR more advanced
> in ease-of-use as well as sophistication.  Can't a MAC prog be ported
> with veritable ease?  

I have a friend who recently got a Mac with MOTU Performer.  See Performer's
beautiful UI.  See Performer's mega-cool features.  See Performer crash.
See Performer's copy protection get all f*cked up.  See Performer crash again.

Hey, I agree that Amiga sequencers are behind in some ways.  But it is very
easy to think of how much greener the grass is in Mac-ville, when the truth
is that they've got plenty of problems too.

Porting a large complex program like a sequencer is never such an easy thing;
the scarcity of programs available on both the Mac and the Amiga leads me to
believe that it is a particularly difficult port, probably due to the
differences in the OS.

                                   - Neil

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