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From: elson@otc.otca.oz (Elson Markwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: sonix
Keywords: soix
Message-ID: <2208@otc.otca.oz>
Date: 29 Jan 91 05:46:59 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.085753.6459@daimi.aau.dk>
Reply-To: elson@otc.UUCP (Elson Markwick)
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In article <1991Jan25.085753.6459@daimi.aau.dk> pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes:
>   To put it all together in a single question: Where are all the
>musicprograms, that should look like Sonix and be made in the 9O's ?
>Am I the only one, that miss notes and hate columns with A#4 DF23's ?
>
>Everybody with an opinion about notes and bars and soundtrashers and
>... post your opinions! I long for debate about this!
>(And Deluxe Music Confusion Kit is not the way to go!)

I tend to like "soundtrasher" myself, but mainly for the reasons you outlined
I HATED Sonix because the instrument editor sucks (or maybe that's just my own
lack of ability to get it to do anything worthwhile), and that damned 8SVX
sample format.  Oh and there's no realtime record facility on Sonix either.
(Come to that a real time record facility on Soundtracker that allows you to
record more than one segment at a time would be kinda nice for all us jammers).

Another thing you've gotta remember too is that not everyone can read music (in
the notes and bars sense) but most everyone can do *something* reasonable with
the soundtracker type interface.

'Course what I would really like to see is a pair of 40kHz DACs stuck inside
the Ami, so you could get a really decent cymbal sound out of the thing.

Cheers, Elson

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