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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Review of SoundScape Pro MIDI Studio (LONG)
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 20:45:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 20:45:22 1987
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In article <12792@topaz.rutgers.edu> (Jonathan D.) writes:
>Pretty amazing, I must say, but you have to buy all three products
>to get it.  Why go for DMCS and Pro MIDI Studio, since they seem to do
>the same thing?  

They do not do the same thing. Pro MIDI studio is a MIDI sequencer and
controller, used to produce songs using MIDI equipment. The Amiga is
a virtual MIDI sound source. DMCS on the other hand is a Music composition
tool that lets you play your music through the Amiga. DMCS is oriented
toward creating music on 'paper', and the Pro MIDI Studio is oriented
toward creating music through multi-track recordings. 

>Couple of questions about Pro MIDI:
>
>1)	What format does it save the files?  DMCS uses SMUS, and it
>would be nice if the two could transfer songs back and forth...

For the most part Pro MIDI stores the files in its own format, they
supply a SMUS convert program on the disk to convert them to SMUS
format. If you have soundscape.library (the file) in the LIBS: 
directory of the workbench, and you start DMCS, DMCS will load
SoundScape *FIRST* and then register itself as a module and start 
itself up. DMCS can be used like any other module in the 'patch bay'
you can send MIDI events to it, record MIDI events from it. 

>2)	How much is Pro MIDI?  I'm debating which program to get,
>and right now, I'm leaning towards DMCS (some Mac owners I know 
>also have DMCS, so I'd like to exchange songs with them (Yes, it is 
>possible)).

About $150 when I bought my copy. Check out the back of AmigaWorld for
discount mail order prices.


--Chuck McManis
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