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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Amiga midi problems?
Message-ID: <533@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 17:22:22 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 22 17:22:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Aug-87 03:44:23 EDT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Why performers use the ST for MIDI.
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.amiga:7703 rec.music.synth:1338

They use the ST because there is no cheaper way to get a MIDI sequencer.
Apparently even a C=64 (the previous low-end favorite) costs more once you
add the MIDI hardware and whatever else you need to run a decent package.
The mid-range favorites are the Mac and the PC/AT (with the Roland MPU-401
sequencer or equivalent). For the high end there are dedicated machines.

As for the Amiga MIDI problems, I'd like someone to explain exactly what
they are without jingoism (on the part of ST people) or mealymouthed
platitudes (on the part of Amiga people). Is it just that people building
sequencer programs didn't bother reading page whatever-it-is in the ROM
kernal manual that explains how to keep time synch? (It's a pain... why
doesn't the clock device have a "periodically signal me" mode????)
-- 
-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)