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From: m204help@cca.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Amiga midi problems?
Message-ID: <19396@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 10:14:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  2 10:14:42 1987
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Summary: great getting info is fine....I think we're saying the same thing

In article <610@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <19269@cca.CCA.COM>, m204help@cca.CCA.COM (Keith Hedger) writes:
> > I agree that it is fine to discuss computers as they relate to music in this
> > newsgroup.....I just get tired of relentless arguments based on people's
> > die hard loyalty to a particular box.
> 
> How about flaming the people who *aren't* providing information, then...
> 
> I've heard and read comments from various people about the Amiga's unfitness
> for "serious" music. I'd really like to know what the problem is. Midi is
> Midi, after all (as Leo pointed out). There seems to be some perception
> that something is wrong with timing on the Amiga. Could someone please tell
> me whether it's a fundamental problem in the timer, programs failing to follow
> the rules outlined in the RKM, or hot air?
> -- 
> -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter
> --                  U   <--- not a copyrighted cartoon :->

Well yes the MIDI spec is the MIDI spec, but experience has shown us that a
device can adhere to the MIDI spec and still have problems.....this has nothing
to do with the Amiga though.......I find it hard to believe that there is       anything about the Amiga's  hardware or software design or implementation that
make it a computer unfit for music 'serious' or otherwise....as a matter of 
fact, I think that these perceptions are fostered mostly by the bickering I
was complaining about in the first place. I have heard only a couple of 
negative comments about the Amiga for music and they had to do with 
availability of software and price - NOT anything to do with the performance
of the machine. I own an Atari ST and I don't feel that the ST is necessarily
'better' than the Amiga......I bought mine because of the price and I felt 
that the extra cost (at that time) associated with the Amiga was related to
features that I would not find PARTICULARLY useful as a musician.....
that's not to say that the features would IMPEDE its' usefulness as a 
music computer, only that I personally didn't feel that some of them were
going to necessarily ENHANCE musical performance....I thought that the 
features had to do more with other types of processing that I personally
am not involved in.
Maybe someone with an Amiga can answer Peter's question more specifically,
and please ------ no responses from Atari owners .
And by the way......my note WAS flaming people who don't provide information.
Keitth Hedger