Path: utzoo!mnetor!intacc!zerobeat
From: zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Computer
Keywords: computer midi
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.164220.3174@intacc.uucp>
Date: 20 Apr 91 16:42:20 GMT
References: <1593@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Organization: Inter/Access Artists' Centre Toronto
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In article <1593@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> abmg@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Aliasghar Babadi) writes:
>Hi,
>
>	I would like to know what is the best available computer and software 
>for composing and editing music. I like to connect my keyboard to a computer
>and play something and save the music and later look at the written form of
>the music on the screen and edit some part and replay the whole or part of it.
>record the voice of more than one instrument on top of each other. Thank you
>for your help.


The two best computers for music are the Mac and the Atari(ST).  The software
that exists for either are quite amazing and roughly on par with each other.  
I have been using and Atari ST for 5 years and Notator software for the past 3
years and I think it blows away most of what is out there.  

Cubase for the Atari or Mac is quite good too.  Vision and Performer for the
Mac are quite amazing too.  The Atari computer is a little better for music
software because of its flexible operating system.  More things can be
executed *while* the song is running without interuption.  In practice, this
feature proves to be absolutely invaluable.  The Atari also comes with built
in Midi ports and is a lot cheaper.

In America, however, the Mac gets way more support for anything that isn't
music related.  There is a lot more non-music software available and it
usually is more powerful than Atari stuff.  In Europe, the Atari is *the*
computer of choice.  The two big software packages (Notator and Cubase) are
made in Germany.  Note that Cubase for the Mac does not run quite as good as
Cubase for the Atari.

The Amiga does not have any very powerful sequencer programs available for it.
The IBM PC has some decent ones, but don't really live up to the Mac or Atari
ones.

     ferenc