Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!iconsys!tom
From: tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Music
Message-ID: <203@iconsys.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 05:21:19 GMT
References: <32631KSN@PSUVM>
Reply-To: tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton)
Organization: Icon International Inc., Orem, Utah
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In article <32631KSN@PSUVM> KSN@PSUVM.BITNET (Peter A. Krupa) writes:
>I looking for a good music composer/player program.  I have an early
>version of Concertware, but its limited to sixteenth notes.  Ideally,
>I'd like music software that can manage sixty-fourth notes, and be
>MIDI compatible.  Any suggestions?

I bought MidiPaint last weekend, with a Professional Plus MIDI interface.
If you can overlook some of it's deficiencies and idiosycrasies, it's
a really nice program.  16 channels of output, and unlimited song length
(or 999 measures, I'm a little confused here).  You paint songs with
either of two paint brushes, one quantized, the paints from button down
to button up.  The paint display shows a piano keyboard oriented vertically
along the left edge of the window, with the tool pallette to the left of the
window.  Vertical dimension is pitch, horizontal is duration.  A song thus
looks like a piano roll.  Quantized notes are 128th's to quarters, with dotteds
and triplets in between (nothing larger, one of the irksome things).
Lots of MIDI events stuff, can record incoming. LOTS of features.  But
many quirks, look at it before you buy it.

I like it, but I'd like to see some changes.
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