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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Music-X
Message-ID: <1192@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 03:02:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 03:02:46 1987
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References: <1603@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
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[lineaters beware of the wizardesses. We eat line eaters.] 


In article <1603@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> page@swan.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:

>I just spoke with a few people from MicroIllusions, soon-to-be makers
>of the "Music-X" package for the Amiga.  The ad for the package says
>it does just about everything, so I called to find out a little more
>about it.  Nobody I spoke to could tell me anything about it.  They
>DID say that it would be shipping in mid-September.  I asked them how
>I could get a beta copy; they said "write to us and tell us why we
>should make you a beta tester; we'll decide on our beta testers RSN."
>OK, I think, but if you haven't gone to beta yet, how do you expect to
>go to stores in 5 weeks?
>
>The ad says "patch program included" or some such.  I asked them for
>what device ... even supplied some names of synths for them, but they
>didn't know.

David Joiner, the author, is on bix. The Microillusions people in general have
policy against outside beta testers. (Especially after the way Diga! was
ripped off from Aegis' beta test so badly.) ie. you'll have to do some serious
persuasion to convince them to make you a beta tester. Anyway, if you have
questions about Music-X he is the person to talk to and the only net he's on
right now is bix. (Or you can catch him thursday evenings at the LASFS - Los
Angeles Science Fantasy Society - weekly meeting on Burbank blvd near
Lankershim in North Hollyweird area.)

In order to make the serial port work correctly for midi purposes he has
entirely rewritten the serial device driver as midi.device. Knowing the
quality of David's recent work I suspect Music-X will be quite good.

As far as patch programs go I feel certain there'll be one for the CZ101.
I know David has one of them thangs. What else I have no idea yet.
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