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From: 6111231@PUCC.BITNET (Peter Wisnovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need Comparative Info on AMIGA vs. MAC+ for use in a MIDI system
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Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 16:30:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 16:30:19 1987
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In article <17012@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, shebanow@ji.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Shebanow) writes:
 
<
<I think that the Macintosh is definately the better computer for MIDI
<applications at this time. There is really very little music software
<available for the Amiga at this time. In fact, the only programs for
<the Amiga that I know of are Yamaha DX and Casio CZ synth patch editor/
<librarians, and a sequencer program.
<
<The Mac, on the other hand, has many different types of MIDI applications:
<
<        Patch Librarians/Editors for many (20 or more) different synths
<        Sound Editors for most digital samplers
<        Additive Synthesis software for Samplers
<        Sequencers (both pattern and track oriented)
<        Notational software
<        SMPTE support
<        "Artifically Intelligent" Music Composition and Improvisation Tools
 
One other mac goodie: a mac can be easily connected to a LaserWriter or
even a typesetter and produce publication quality sheet music using the
(Adobe, I think) Sonata font: I know you will all hate me for saying this,
but Sonata brings Desktop Publishing (there! I said the DP word! so sue me!) to
music publishing, which in some ways is more revolutionary than what
programs like PageMaker are doing with word processing.
 
 
Peter Wisnovsky
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