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From: herb@hpindda.HP.COM (Herb Gellis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Re: MIDI & 8-bits
Message-ID: <4230002@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 88 01:37:22 GMT
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Not having a catalog in front of me, I will refer you to the "source".
Hybrid Arts in the Los Angeles area is the only vendor to my knowledge that
has ever produced/sold MIDI hardware and software for atari 8-bit.
I have their MIDI box (connects to standard 8-bit daisy chain) and some
software (16 Track Sequencer for 130XE, DX7 librarian/patch editor).
They also had the same sequencer (with fewer features and memory) for the
48K machines. I believe there is more software (? librarian for Casio stuff?)
but am not sure. I suspect they are no longer making any NEW software for
the 8-bits. Although I have used the software only "lightly", it is quite
full featured (the sequencer, that is). If you have more specific questions
I can research same -- you will have to judge how it stacks up against
ST software (including theirs).

Oh yeah, they were also selling a software product similiar to the AMS(?)
program, but for MIDI not the internal voices. I.e., a 3-voice "word-
processor" for music, written by a group of folks in the SF Bay Area. I saw
a demo of it a year or so ago. You could program nested loops of musical
events, "subroutines", etc. Interesting. A programmers music machine rather
than a players.

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