Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!sri-spam!ames!oliveb!sun!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Deluxe MCS, crashing, and a SMUS question Message-ID: <12088@sun.uucp> Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 13:46:37 EST Article-I.D.: sun.12088 Posted: Mon Jan 26 13:46:37 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 27-Jan-87 06:22:37 EST References: <6550@alice.uUCp> <2091@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <971@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 40 Summary: Yes, DMCS is seriously broken In article <971@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>, page@ulowell (Bob Page) writes: > ... that the MIDI data > coming in gets lost, DMCS gets confused, a buffer overflows someplace, > and BOOM ... guru. > > I wonder if EA did any beta testing? You can't use MIDI-in with DMCS. > If DMCS were a 3-plane screen, all would be fine. > Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. ulowell!page, page@ulowell.CSNET Yes DMCS dies horribly, I talked to the customer service representative at Electronic Arts and he said that the MIDI input feature was only in "step" time, and that the note extending functions did not work very well. So if you have set the little requester box that specifies how many seconds are to pass before the note extends. *DO NOT* hit more than one note on the MIDI keyboard in less than that amount of time. (So if it is set to one second, don't press notes faster than one per second) If you do it will crash. Also don't ever hit notes faster than step time even when it is playing. So no, you can't play along with that base and rhythm track you just designed. Third never hit the MIDI keyboard when the program isn't expecting it. I was placing notes on the staff with the mouse and my wife pressed a key on the keyboard (Boom - GURU). And finally, if you read the manual like me, you would have seen the sentence "To use your Instant Music intruments with DMCS see Appendix B." Unfortunately Appendix B doesn't exist. That did not discourage this interpid code mangler, nay I copied all those intruments and songs from the IM disk onto my hard disk along with the DMCS stuff, loaded it up and selected one of the Rock Blues tunes from IM (Boom - GURU) move the instruments from the directories "Library 1", "Library 2", etc to the top level and tried again. Now it is 50/50. Sometimes it crashes, sometimes it doesn't. [SRB ignition ...] All in all I think this is the worst piece of junk that EA has ever had the gall to release, it definitely puts it up there in the Ranks of the SubLOGIC fiasco. [..Go for SRB Sep] -- --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.