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From: jer@stiatl.UUCP (John Ramspott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga needs a good music
Message-ID: <9258@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 01:38:20 GMT
References: <90030707485723@masnet.uucp>
Reply-To: jer@stiatl.UUCP (John Ramspott)
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In article <90030707485723@masnet.uucp> john.coldrick@canremote.uucp (JOHN COLDRICK) writes:
>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

While I agree that it would not be wise for EA to dive into sequencers, my
reasoning is different. There is another non-ported, high-end sequencer that
is really awesome -- much better than Music-X. The program is called
Bars & Pipes, from the Blue Ribbon Bakery. Phone is (404)377-1514.
  It is powerful and VERY friendly, with a lot of flexibility. I have never
felt freer to create before, and experiment with no cost. If you want to
hear a track quantized, you put the quantize tool in the output stream,
and play with the parameters until it sounds right, or remove it altogether.
If you like it, you can "toolize" the track to make it permament.
 I do hope there is an upgrade to DMCS soon. It is really the only decent
note editor with playback capability. Copyist from Dr.T's is copy-protected,
does not play back music, and has ridiculous artificial limitations for
how long a score can be. DMCS is not that low end. When BRB finishes the
DMCS conversion module, it will make a great combo, and downright awesome
with a DMCS upgrade.

--John E. Ramspott
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John Ramspott						gatech!stiatl!jer
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