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From: frodo@b11.ingr.com (Chuck Puckett)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga,ingr.general
Subject: AMIGA music software
Keywords: composition,synth capabilities,score printing
Message-ID: <7070@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 9 Jan 90 22:23:59 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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I would appreciate recommendations on a program or (best set) of programs to
run on an AMIGA 1000 that provides the $KEYWORDS capabilities. I would like
to have composition for multiple instruments, a set of instruments in a 
library, and the ability to playback my composition for review using the 
AMIGA's onboard sound abilities. The composition capacity should have the
usual stuff: choose key and time, notes (down to 64ths), rests; hopefully,
it would have bars and ties, etc. Printing needs to be done to a dot-matrix,
hopefully with the AMIGA standard printer driver (this may be a bit much for
such specialized symbols, but when you're asking, ask for it all). I don't
need MIDI stuff, though I suspect that most programs of this ilk will provide
some MIDI capability anyway.

The thing that I have heard about that seems to satisfy my MMRs (Minimum
Mandatory Requirements) would probably be Deluxe Music Construction Set. I
realize that I invite ages-old commentary when I ask for opinions on this
program, but, what the heck: this forum is well-known for revisiting issues
when someone like me sticks his nose in a new arena and asks "Huh?" I invite
you over to rec.arts.drwho to find ever new requests for the knitting pattern
for Tom Baker's scarf or to rec.music.gdead to discover what the dancing
bears really mean.

Besides DMCS, what other program(s) might you suggest, and why? Danke in 
advance. (Or why not DMCS?)

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