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From: goodloe@b11.ingr.com (Tony Goodloe)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga,ingr.general
Subject: Re: AMIGA music software
Summary: for what it's worth
Keywords: composition,synth capabilities,score printing
Message-ID: <7093@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 11 Jan 90 15:25:25 GMT
References: <7070@b11.ingr.com>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <7070@b11.ingr.com>, frodo@b11.ingr.com (Chuck Puckett) writes:
> 
> 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).
>
> ...would probably be Deluxe Music Construction Set. 
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>  CHUCK PUCKETT, Intergraph   phone: 205-772-1825  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I have used DMCS on a friend's AMIGA and my Kurzweil.  It did everything
you asked for. It did a pretty decent job at printing on his Epson
printer. We have even used the scores from DMCS for a small brass ensemble
- just to say that the scores are very readable. The biggest drawback
that I see is the method of entering the music for the score. It would
seem that selecting icons and placing them on a staff with a joystick or
mouse would be nice, but it gets old - fast. I've seen other methods
that are superior, such as entering values in a table:

Note	Duration	MIDI Channel
c5	16		1
f#5	8		1

etc.

hope this is worth something.

tony