Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!pnet02!mriley From: mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sonix -> IFF (was Re: IMPORTANT!!!!) Message-ID: <4445@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 13 Jun 88 05:20:16 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 27 In foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy) writes: > In article <4365@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes: > >whatever) so I'm kinda hanging loose until the dust settles. I > >really *want* to do another version, but I'm sorta stuck with doing > >it with Aegis... > I hope hope you do. There are many things about Sonix that I like much > than its major competitor. However I wish you had had a save .SMUS option. Sonix _does_ save its scores in the IFF/SMUS format. Earlier versions of Sonix (aka Musicraft) did use a custom format; however, I did switch to the SMUS standard because everyone wanted me to. I'm not sure that Sonix has derived any benefit from using SMUS, but hey, maybe it did... From what I am told, DMCS can read and write SMUS as an option (though it defaults to a quazi-IFF format of its own) but there's not a whole lot of compatibility since DMCS supports more staff notation features than Sonix and Sonix supports some types of instruments that DMCS doesn't. At first sight, the SMUS standard appears to be comprehensive, but it seems to have failed as far as implementation and practicality are concerned. -Mark- UUCP: {ucbvax!ucsd,rutgers}!crash!gryphon!pnet02!mriley INET: mriley@pnet02.cts.com "Hey, I don't _use_ programs, I write them..." ;-)