Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!elroy!gryphon!keithd From: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MIDI Software? Message-ID: <16364@gryphon.COM> Date: 2 Jun 89 07:52:51 GMT References: <12540@shamash.cdc.com> <310@usl-pc.usl.edu> <4051@druwy.ATT.COM> <1024@taurus.BITNET> Reply-To: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 57 In article lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton) writes: >Regarding Mimetics SoundScape Pro-MIDI Studio -- the following is my own >unpartisan opinion: I too went through a time with SoundScape, in fact I'm still using it because I've yet to determine if the other packages will do what I want. I bought Dynamic Studio, like the interface, but found it wouldn't allow me to play while recording multiple Amiga samples driven from external MIDI devices sending on multiple channels. The manual eluded to this capability might be possible when combined with the Oasis program which is designed to read Ensonique Mirage disks, but the manual really isn't clear that this is so, and I was already pissed that the basic package doesn't provide the capability that SoundScape did that I consider essential, that I didn't want to go out and spend another $80 on something that "might" allow me to do what I need. The Dynamic Studio manual says: "Dynamic studio is capable of reading the Oasis files, and allows you to play the instruments it defines through an external MIDI keyboard (or other controller)". SoundScape allows me to preload 16 samples into the Amiga, individually tune them, assign them to be driven by external MIDI channels 1-16, then record what's going on on these channels while playing back the samples through the Amiga's 4 sound channels as available. Will Oasis add this capability to Dynamic Studio? Will Dr. T's KCS do this? What all do I need? Will Music-X? Because so far I have only been able to identify SoundScape as a program that can handle this first part of my needs (being able to play the music and record), yet it won't go past that (to reasonable editing), I have been doing relatively simple things where I don't try and edit. If there is an alternative, I'd sure like to hear about it. I'm considering using SoundScape as a player module on one Amiga, and some other MIDI recorder/editor on another Amiga to solve the problem, but this is horribly inconvenient. I've also seen several cases where it is desirable to multitask multiple MIDI programs on the same Amiga, perhaps connect the MIDI in port to the input of program A, the MIDI out stream of program A connected to the MIDI in stream of program B, and the MIDI out stream of program B connected to the Amiga's MIDI out port. Anyone ready to design and publish a MIDI stream IPC standard? And then how will we convince MIDI software developers to use it? (I know, it'll happen once DPaint IV supports it!). Keith Doyle keithd@gryphon.COM gryphon!keithd gryphon!keithd@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov