Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!t22918 From: t22918@iti.org (Matt Ranney ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio Subject: Re: sonix Keywords: sonix Message-ID: Date: 27 Jan 91 01:56:03 GMT References: <1991Jan25.085753.6459@daimi.aau.dk> <1991Jan25.113534.23606@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lines: 25 bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes: >I hear my Amy belting out 10-15 *different* instrument-notes per second per >voice in stereo, well, I can see why I bought it-- there's even enough CPU >left to do blitter tricks, and with IntuiTracker, multitask. Granted, the >interface is cryptic. But that can be fixed with some serious programmers >doing some serious work on it. >I say, standardize it! Well, I love the NT module format. There are lots of great songs available for it, and the editors, in my opinion, are much better than Sonix or DMCS. Fore one thing, Sonix and DMCS are slow and clumsy. Sure, they have real looking notes on the screen, and DMCS makes some really neat displays and printouts, but come on, the computer doesn't read a musical staff, it reads numbers, like d#4 - 0000. Plus, it's easier to manage your 4 voices with Med/ST/NT because you've got a track for each channel. You want a chord, you know you're taking up 3 channels to play it. As far as the synthesizer function of Sonix, which is nice, you can take the money you've saved from buying Sonix and using Med/ST/NT, and buy Synthia. -- Matt Ranney t22918@ursa.calvin.edu