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From: steves@kepler.UUCP (Steve Schlich)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: The synthesizer as arranging tool
Message-ID: <479@kepler.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 14:38:29 EST
Article-I.D.: kepler.479
Posted: Mon Feb  3 14:38:29 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 02:34:53 EST
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Reply-To: steves@kepler.UUCP (Steve Schlich)
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
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Keywords: MultiTrak, ProCompo, Macintosh, OpCode


Kris Stephens wrote about Professional Composer, the Mac, and Computers &
Music in Daly City.

Kris,  the Professional Composer people have put out a sequencer called
"Performer," which will record your playing, allow you to edit (and unless
you play like a robot you'll *need* to edit) and then translate the data to
a ProCompo file you can print.  Nice idea, and although I haven't seen this
particular implementation, I HAVE seen others and I feel it's an idea whose
time hasn't quite come yet.  It is SO hard to play in absolutely perfect
time with the sequencer metronome.

As for Computers & Music, I bought my Casio CZ-5000 there and got a good deal
and what I felt was knowledgeable (sp?) help...but when I went back two weeks
later to see about a "hiccuping" problem I was having (with Deluxe Music
Construction Set), owner Joe West was very rude.  I wanted to conduct a test
using his hardware and my software to establish where the problem was.  
Turned out the problem was mine and I promptly left them alone, but not 
before I heard Joe's voice from the back room: "We'll run *our* test and
if it works for us, piss on him."

I didn't care much for that attitude, but understood it better when they
got a call from Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead.  With customers like that,
who needs to worry about a nerd like me?

Joe *still* is as knowledgeable as any salesman I've run into, though, and
does have fair prices.  I just didn't appreciate overhearing what he
*really* thought about me and my "small" purchase.
-- 

One town looks very like another /
with your head down over your pieces, brother.
       ---from "One Night in Bangkok"
            Steve Schlich, MicroPro Product Development
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