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From: mapjilg@gdr.bath.ac.uk (J I L Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: MED3.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.110438.23276@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Mar 91 11:04:38 GMT
Organization: Bath University Computing Services, Bath, England
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Some more thoughts on MED3.0. Firstly, may I say I think it's an
incredible product, and having such sophisticated and robust
software available in the public domain is one of the Amiga's
big selling points. Teijo Kinnunen has supported the product and
listened to what people want/need, and that's more than most
commercial companies do for their users. OK, grovelling over, there
are a few criticisms! Firstly, one thing that would be nice to
do is to load/save a range of blocks or tracks rather than the whole
song. For example, if you have two pieces that you realise would 
sound pretty good together, then you've got to type in the second
part all over again. On a similar tack, how about a printout routine
for listing your songs? I must say that I preferred the old title
bar - the timer's nice, it should stay, but I think that 3.0 doesn't
look quite as snappy as previous versions (also due to the more
easily readable but rather uglier main menu). I'm not sure that the
horizontal scrolling song list works all that well. It's hard to
see what's going on most of the time. Finally, the documentation 
doesn't say what hardware you need to use the sampling features.
It would be nice to know what device it uses (PAR:, SER:, NIL: ??? :-))
Thoughts? 
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