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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Warning: use of "Pyro" and Opcode's MIDIMAC Sequencer
Message-ID: <2642@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 10:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 10:16:00 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 07:18:35 EDT
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Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <548@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:
>
>I have been in touch with the tech people at Opcode systems regarding several
>System crashes Sequencer 2.54 (4 crashes to be exact, all during "takes." 
>It is their recommendation that I NOT use "Software Supply's" Pyro software
>while running MIDIMAC seq., particularly on the Mac's Finder 4.1/System 5.5,
>if I am running off an external Hard Disk. I should expect problems otherwise.
>
>
>						Jim Collymore

Interesting...can you elaborate a bit more Jim?  I've noticed that recently
I've been getting alot of deadlocks on launch when I use Sequencer 2.54.
I.e., I'd double-click Sequencer and about 50% of the time the program would
freeze upoon launching (apparently finished loading, but frozen mouse).  I'm
using Finder 6.0b<something>, System 5.5, Pyro!, and a Dataframe 20.  I never
did suspect it was a compability problem between Pyro! and Sequencer though.

As an aside, does anyone know why professional music software developers
can't seem to write code that follows Macintosh compability guidelines?  It
seems that the first thing to break (sometimes the only thing to break) is
music software.  Take the Mac II as an example - aside from Midipaint, which
was written recently, no sequencer program works on it.  Even Performer
2.xx, which was just released recently, won't work on a Mac II.  Meanwhile,
the guys at Opcode claim that they've been had since Apple changed the sound
manager on them...at the same time pre-Mac II Videoworks runs perfectly on a
II.

Christopher Chow
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