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From: tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga, MIDI, and DMCS questions
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Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 17:25:11 EST
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I have some questions about the use of MIDI and home computers in
arranging music.  The situation is that my wife is interested in
arranging barbershop style music.  This requires her to take existing
music and modify it for 4 voices.  I just finished reading a good
review of the Deluxe Music Construction Set for the Amiga by Rick
Pasotto, and I know that the Amiga has superb sound capabilities.

What she would like to do is:

1) Using a keyboard, play an existing piece of music and have it be
stored on disk or whatever.

2) Have a program like DMCS be able to read the data file and display
it in manuscript form.  Perhaps this step can be combined with (1)?

3) Modify the music measure by measure using, say, DMCS and play back
the results.

4) Add words and other appropriate notation to the manuscript.

5) Print the resulting arrangement.  One additional concern here is to
be able to change the spacing between the bass and treble clefs such
that the note stems and words fit between the two clefs.

It appears that if she is willing to use a mouse to key in the initial
music, DMCS may fill the bill for steps 2-5.  It must be painfully
obvious by now that I don't know anything about music or MIDI, so your
patience would be appreciated.

Is a MIDI device capable of input as in (1)?  Have any of you done
anything like this?  Or are we just dreaming here?  

Another possible direction is to make use of our PCjr (it is outfitted
with 512K, a mouse, and 2 drives), but it is limited to 3 voices on
playback.  Further, standard sound enhancement cards do not fit in the
PCjr.  Comments on this direction?

Thanks in advance,


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