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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: <670@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 09:59:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 09:59:25 1987
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In article <2306@cbmvax.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
> In article <610@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > 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
> As pointed out a couple of times, there is no fundamental reason why the Amiga
> is not fit for serious MIDI use.

If there's no MIDI software that works properly, then it doesn't matter if
the machine is fundamentally capable of doing MIDI or not, now does it? After
all, a Macintosh is fundamentally capable of concurrent multitasking, right?

So... the question then becomes...

	1) Is there a problem caused by software not timestamping events
	   correctly? (apparently not)

	2) Is there a problem caused by software not generating events
	   correctly, presumably because it's not keeping proper time?
	   (This seems to be the common complaint: MIDI events generated
	    by the Amiga not being in sync with everyone else)

	3) Is there no problem and most (if not all) Amiga MIDI software
	   works correctly (barring DMCS)? (what I suspect, but do not know)

Will someone from rec.music.synth who has experience with MIDI and has
seriously looked at the Amiga get in on this? All the technical people on
comp.sys.amiga are (quite rightly) saying there is no fundamental problem.
What does the real world say? Are the harmonics right as well :->?
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