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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MIDI interface : what software's good, and how?
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.081541.9168@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 08:15:41 GMT
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SynthLab works with MIDI keyboards better than anything else I've seen
(take that with a grain of salt). You can have the keyboard drive the
ensoniq and the recorded tracks drive combiniations of the ensoniq and
MIDI out... it's powerful, as MIDI was meant to be, but SynthLab's editing
is barely above 8 track tape recorder and is very inadequate for real music.
What is needed is a hybrid program between SynthLab and SoundSmith that gives
you both the power and flexibility of MIDI Synth but with the direct editing
capabilities SoundSmith has ... this is a simplification of course and it's
an application screaming to be written.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu

P.S. Why haven't I written one you ask? Well you'll find out in a few weeks.