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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Amiga midi
Message-ID: <1660@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 12:34:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  9 12:34:40 1987
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Reply-To: page@swan.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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Summary: It's the application software, not the machine/OS
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peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) is continuing to ask "What's wrong
with the Amiga's MIDI?"

Nothing.  So why are people complaining?

They're not.  One person read one article in a magazine that stated
the version of the music program he tried didn't handle MIDI well.
The normal forces of USENET mangled that observation into a couple
of religious wars and machine bashing, as well as tons of theoretical
banter from the Amiga folks, but Peter still didn't get an answer.

The package was EA's DMCS version 1, which didn't handle MIDI very
well.  Don't bother asking WHY it didn't handle it well ... why
are there bugs in operating systems?  Certainly not because the
hardware is bogus.  The application software just didn't work right.

DMCS version 2 now has working MIDI.  All the other software packages
commercially available for the Amiga that support MIDI do not have
the problems that the original DMCS had.

So is there a MIDI problem on the Amiga?  No, and there never was.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}