Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MIDI Software? Message-ID: <105160@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 16 May 89 20:59:17 GMT References: <12540@shamash.cdc.com> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 30 Jeff Wabik writes : -> .......... When inputting from the (piano) keyboard, aside from -> not capturing note durations correctly, any even slightly "complex" -> (more than one simultaneously) or quickly-entered notes cause DMCS to -> guru .. Average Amiga uptime once inputting via MIDI is about 5 -> seconds. Lynn D. Newton writes: -> I have run DMCS since I first got my Amiga 18 months ago and have -> never had any problem like this. I think you still have a hardware -> problem, because despite its limitations in functionality, DMCS is as -> far as I know at least stable. Actually you are both right. When I bought DMCS right when it came out it was unusable with MIDI input. Period. However, about 6 months later I got some Mail from EA that said they had made "great improvements" in it and that for only $X (which I think was 20) you could get the update and it wasn't copy protected. So I sent off for it, and sure enough it cured the MIDI guruing problems. You still couldn't get it to record in "real" time, but that's why I bought SoundScape and MIDI magic. Of course Music-X would appear to have everything I want in a Sequencer but David Joiner (talin on BIX, and the author for the most part) keeps making it "better and better..." Argh, gosh I wish he'd just ship it. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "A most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!"