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From: talvola@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Talvola)
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Subject: Re: Sound Blaster with .ROL
Message-ID: <TALVOLA.91Mar12195418@janus.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 13 Mar 91 00:54:18 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pmahler@starnet.uucp's message of 11 Mar 91 21:37:12 GMT

In article <1991Mar11.213712.14268@starnet.uucp> pmahler@starnet.uucp (Paul Mahler) writes:

   In article <22.27d27e41@fryeten.uucp> doug@fryeten.uucp writes:
   >In article <1991Feb28.165754.6970@topaz.ucq.edu.au>, enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au writes:
   >> I have a Sound Blaster card and am happy with the sound it produces as music
   >> and samples. What I find frustrating is the lack of decent software (any) for
   >> producing my own music files and editing digitised samples. The ROL demos are
   >> good, but what software is used to produce them? I have FMSOUND for Windows
   >> 3.0, but it doens't have a facility for composition. Any answers?
   >> 
   >
   >I agree.  I have the money to spend on one of these boards but with the lack of
   >software available for musical composition it does me no good.  I would like to
   >see something that I can write and edit a traditional musical score and then be
   >able to play it through the Soundblaster and also be able to print it out on a
   >dot matrix printer.  If someone puts some software together to do that for
   >$150.00 or less then I'll plug out the money for the card and the software.
   >There is at least one company with software under a $150 of this type which
   >already supports midi interfaces but doesn't support the Soundblaster or Adlib
   >cards yet.  They are interested in doing this but they're not sure if the
   >market is big enough to invest the time and money. Their name slips my mind
   >right now, but if anyone is interested in calling them with pleas I'd be happy
   >to email their name and phone number.  I wrote the info down at home.  My
   >impression was that given enough interested phone callers they might just be
   >persuaded to take the risk and go ahead with the project.
   >


There is a Shareware/Freeware program called Musician which I have seen
on a few BBS's around the US.  It was written by some people in Finland.
It lets you enter music in sheet-music format, and then play them (on
a SoundBlaster or AdLib I think - I have a SB and it works fine) back,
and print them (haven't tried this - don't have a printer).  If anyone
wants a copy, I could probably mail it out to them, or upload it to
some anonymous FTP site.

-- Erik

P.S.: What happened to sequent.mcs.kent.edu -??? It was a great FTP
site for SoundBlaster software (I think I got Musician from there),
but anonymous FTP doesn't seem to work there anymore.  


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