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From: grab@osu-eddie.UUCP (Charles Grab)
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Subject: Re: Review: Music Construction Set
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 16:17:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 16:17:26 1986
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Summary: Try Music Shop from Broderbund



Have you tried Music Shop from Broderbund software?  It avoids many of the
probles that you're having with MCS.  It allows you to change time
signatures and meter in the middle of a piece.  You can use one or two staves
on a piece.  Each staff can carry either clef, though once you've set them
you can't change in the piece.  It allows for tripelets, repeats with or
without second endings.  You can also get music up an octave from where you
have written it.  Custom sounds are possible.  It has provisions for
adjusting attack, sustain, decay, wave form, etc.  Tempo and volume controls
are also adjustable.  

The manual is a lot easier to read.  Most of the music theory is in one
section, with the program instructions in another.  The program is mostley
run by pulldown menus, and the whole thing can be convieniently run with a
joystick, though I've found a combination of both joystick and keyboard
works best.  Once you're all done composing, you can print the darn thing
out.  All in all, it's a pretty nice little program.  Offhand I don't know
what the price is, but I'm sure the average computer store can supply that
information for you.


					May your fifth never be diminished
					
							Charles Grab

PS  Anyone who wants to talk about nothing in particular, feel free.
    It'll give me more reason to learn how to work this *@!$%^$$^ mailer.