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From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Computer Fan!!!!
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Date: 1 May 91 15:13:42 GMT
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>Haven't Atari Corp. dropped the ST?

Not unless something drastic has happened in the last three days.  Quite the
contrary, they recently introduced at least 4 relatively new models: the Mega
STE, the TT, and this month, the ST Notebook and the ST Pad.

>>The Amiga does not have any very powerful sequencer programs available for it.
>
>We Amigians do have a lot of powerful midisoftware. Dr.T's Software do support
>and port most of their programs to the Amiga.

Dr. T's is also on the ST, and it is about the third or fourth best package out
there for it.  KCS and Music-X remain the only serious Amiga sequencing
packages, and neither can hold a candle to Notator or Cubase, in many people's
opinion.

This, of course, is not an inherent limitation of the Amiga - someone should
be able to write a really powerful intergated sequencing / scoring package.
Multitasking several programs is nice, but is no substitute for seamless
integration of sequencing and notation.