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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions, things for sale
Message-ID: <7340065@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 91 19:54:38 GMT
References: <193@rosie.NeXT.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>    >Notator is of course the most powerful notaion program in the Atari 
>    >world.  It'll make you wonder how a 8mhz 68000 can do all that ;->
>    >It's also probaly the most powerful sequencer bar none.  The only 
>    >thing I would not recommend it for is if you want to do a lot of time 
>    >signature changes. I don't but it doesn't look as flexible as it 
>    >should (any comments out there?).

I have had no problem with them.  There are various gotchas alluded to in the
manula, but in my opinion, they are obvious, and the manual gives them far too
much attention, making it look like they are difficult to deal with when in
fact it is trivial.  The problems have do do with offsets in the arrange list,
and if you're doing notation, you probably aren't using arrange mode anyhow.

>    Have you guys ever heard of Cubase 2.0 by Steinberg Software? It also
>    has notation capabilities up to the level of professional use.
>    It is also cheaper than Notator, at least here.

I think it is slightly cheaper here too, but not so you'd notice.

When I was asking about notation software before, someone (probably you)
mentioned Cubase, as did a guy at Manny's, but he didn't know much about it.
Can you tell us more about it?  Comparison with Notator would be especially
appreciated.  I've never seen a review of Cubase, just the ads, which don't
seem to be overly hyped (hence don't make it look so impressive :-)

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