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From: rnm@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Marsanyi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga needs a good music score editor/player
Message-ID: <16511@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 4 Mar 90 19:18:26 GMT
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Reply-To: rnm@well.UUCP (Robert Marsanyi)
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It seems to me that the solution is not an "all-in-one" approach, which will
satisfy virtually nobody and, if developed, lead to the Mac situation of
large,
large, comprehensive programs that principally differ in "flavor".  I would
suggest that, on the Amiga, a more logical solution is a number of smaller
special-purpose programs, each good at what they're designed for, with the ab-
ility to communicate both by file (IFF and Midifile) and in real-time, using
message ports or something analogous to the Apple MIDI Manager.
 
Scoring programs that handle just scoring would be nice.  I've tried Dr. T's
The Copyist; it does a lot, but I find it near unusable in editing since it
doesn't really know much about the symbols it's manipulating.  Kind of a spe-
cialized paint program.  Output is very nice, though.
 
And, a plug for HMSL, a _serious_ computer music environment developed on the
Amiga and only reluctantly ported to the Macintosh.  Development continues to
be spurred by the Amiga, with the Mac playing catchup.  There really is stuff
out there ...
 
--rbt
robert@f24.n125.z1.fidonet.ORG     OR rnm@well.uucp