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From: glewis@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Glenn M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sonix problem and comments
Message-ID: <4590@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 16:34:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 16:34:25 1987
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Reply-To: glewis@cit-vax.UUCP (Glenn M. Lewis)
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	I am sorry that this must travel over the Net.  My host refused to
accept Brent's address as a valid one.  It apparently does not know where
"QUESTAR" is (I don't either).

In article <451@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> you write:
>I'm having trouble with Sonix... certain instruments, namely HighHat
>and most of the IFF instruments on the Data Disk, won't load.  Two
>demo scores that are included won't run because they can't load the
>instruments they need.
>
>I've checked to make sure that they're in the Instruments directory;
>they even show up when you pull down Load on the Instr. menu.  But
>when you select them, it says, 'Can't load instrument from disk.'
>
>I'm running a single-drive machine.  I did add 'DF0:' in front of the
>name of the Instruments directory when I switched to the Data Disk,
>but no luck.  My own scores and instruments load fine from both disks.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Incidentally, if there are other "serious musicians" (i.e. who've had
>some good theory, studied an instrument, etc.) out there who are contem-
>plating buying Sonix, I've got some opinions... :-)  Send e-mail and
>I'll reply.

Brent -
	I don't own Sonix, and this may sound stupid, but I would check to
see you if have enough memory to load in all of those instruments.  It may
not tell you that you are out of memory, even though it is.
	The reason I say this is that if you have a single-drive Amiga, odds
are that you do not have any external memory expansion, and thus, have at the
most, 512K.  Sampled instruments take up a great deal of memory.
	Yes, I consider myself a "serious musician" in my spare time.  I have
played several instruments, have had some "good theory", and enjoy music.
I own DMCS, Pro MIDI Studio, and a CZ-101.  These are fun to play with, but
most of the time I prefer playing a real piano or other instrument, or just
listening to music.
	Hope I did not offend you by the suggestion of lack of RAM.  It was
just an idea.
						-- Glenn Lewis

P.S.  How *do* you like Sonix?  I am planning on getting Music-X from Micro-
Illusions when it comes out (soon, hopefully).

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