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From: givler@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Givler - PA)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga,ingr.general
Subject: Re: AMIGA music software
Keywords: composition,synth capabilities,score printing
Message-ID: <9321@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Jan 90 14:42:52 GMT
References: <7070@b11.ingr.com> <7093@b11.ingr.com>
Reply-To: givler@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Givler - PA)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <7093@b11.ingr.com> goodloe@b11.ingr.com (Tony Goodloe) writes:
>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  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
>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

I use DMCS to write music for a Church Choir that I directed for some time
and the scores are legible. If you are going to put words in your music you
have to use a font that has lots of verticals and horizontals. In other
words Topaz looks lousy. 

The way that I enter the notes into DMCS is with the little keyboard that
is on the screen. It is not as fast as MIDI entry, but it has some advantages,
for one thing you don't have to have one hand on the computer and one on 
the keyboard. I have gotten to the point that I can enter a 10 page song in
2-3 hours. And my choirs like the DMCS output much better than my manuscript,
which is, to be kind, terrible.

Greg
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