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From: hobie@sq.uucp (Hobie Orris)
Date: Sun, 20-Dec-87 23:00:01 EST
Message-ID: <1987Dec20.230001.10403@sq.uucp>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mandala System, VERY VIVID, Macro Pappa Read This.
References: <8712132054.AA04823@jade.berkeley.edu> <3198@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: hobie@sq.UUCP (Hobie Orris)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto

Rob McConeghy (malibo@arizona.edu) writes:
>In article <8712132054.AA04823@jade.berkeley.edu>, MOLNARRM@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) writes:
>> icons.  I know a custom digitizer would be expensive, but not that much, as
>> well I did not believe that the software should be that sophisticated.  So, I
>> asked them why they were asking $35,000 (U.S. Funds) for the system.  They said
>> their target was professional type entertainment, performers, and rock groups.
>> For these groups, money was no consideration, and $35,000 was a drop in the
>> bucket....
>
>   Talk about run-away capitalism! Why dont they just lease the system for
>   10% of the gate at any rock concert it is used at.
>    So all you folks who can't shake $35,000 out of the old piggy bank
>    to have one of your own might try catching it there.
>

	I have a copy of their flyer.  Very Vivid is selling a home version of
their software for $549 Canadian.  You need a real-time digitizer to use it.
A friend of mine who deals with VV says that it's only been tested with an old
prototype of Live! which they got for free.  Who knows how compatible this will
be with the new one?  I believe that it also only produces the sounds through
the use of an external synthesizer (they use a DX7), not the Amiga's sound.

 Hobie Orris			| "I'm checking out of this bourgeois motel;
 guest of SoftQuad Inc.,Toronto	| Push myself away from the dinner table and say
 utzoo!sq!hobie			| NO MORE JELLO FOR ME, MOM!"