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From: mblakele@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Michael Blakeley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DMCS 2.5 + Mac II
Message-ID: <725@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 5 Apr 89 18:22:05 GMT
References: <705@varian.UUCP>
Reply-To: mblakele@jarthur.UUCP (Michael Blakeley)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <705@varian.UUCP> david@varian.UUCP (David Brown) writes:
>I recently purchased Deluxe Music Construction Set v2.5 for a Mac II
>and am bothered by an annoying little thing - there is a click at
>the beginning, and most noticeably, at the end of every instance of playing.
>This is most noticeable when I am just picking out notes from the
>piano display; when playing back a piece, the notes are coming rapidly
>enough so that the click only happens at the beginning and end of
>the whole piece.  It sounds like DMCS is turning on and off the sound
>chip constantly.  I have tried it on several Mac II's (under Multifinder,
>the ending click may be one or two seconds later, but it still happens).
>I also tried a Mac Plus - worked OK there.
>
>Has anyone else encountered this?  I called Electronic Arts, and the
>only thing that they could suggest was a bad diskette; that they've
>had no such problems on a Mac II.  

	Yeah, I've had the same problems.  It's even more annoying through
external speakers, and the sig/noise is pretty low, too.  Maybe EA wants
us all to use midi instruments?
	I could handle building my own interface, I guess, but I'm a 
guitar player, and I don,t like any of the midi guitars around.  Why
buy a midi keyboard that I can't play?  If I had $ like that, I'd
get Virtual Memory and join ADPA, too.

>David Brown	 415-649-4000
>Orion Network Systems 1995 University Ave. Suite 350 Berkeley CA 94704
>{pacbell,lll-crg,zehntel,ista,rtech,csi,kinetics}!varian!david

P.S.
	If you have any music or instruments for DMCS you're willing to
share, please do.  My address is in the .sig

						-- tad

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