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From: john.coldrick@canremote.uucp (JOHN COLDRICK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga needs a good music
Message-ID: <90021218522459@masnet.uucp>
Date: 12 Feb 90 19:36:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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Just a thought on those open comments to EA for upgrading their DMCS
program.  I agree that it would be very nice to get an upgrade to this
ancient old prgram - but a lot of the options you were mentioning are
quite sophisticated(read expensive).  When you say that it should be
able to read MIDI in real time - well, now you're talking a sequencer. 
There are already several programs on the market that can do most, if
not all the functions that you described, but they are high end music
programs.  For EA to dive into that already established market would be
an expensive proposition.  The only high end, non-ported sequencer on
the Amiga market currently is Music-X - and look how long that took!
  I perceive DMCS as a low end home use program.  I don't know if EA has 
officially dropped it or not - that would be a shame since it's such a
common program.  It should be de-bugged, spiffed up a bit, etc; but I
think it would be better for someone to start from scratch if they were
to do something with the power you describe.  And you better be prepared 
to spend several hundred!
 
  J.C.
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