| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
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Has anybody heard anything about AEGIS SONIX yet? I stopped
by the Memory Location and they dont have it in stock yet. But the
place in Worcester advertised it in this months Amiga World. Has
anybody tried it? From the blurb in AW it sounds better than Deluxe
Music.
Anybody for a review?
-p
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| 371.1 | ... | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Wed Mar 11 1987 20:46 | 20 | |
As you may know, Sonix is the last remake of Musicraft. I did have
a chance to use an, er, ahem...beta copy called Sonix 1.3. It is
vey much like Musicraft in appearance and function, with some
additional support for MIDI (Musicraft had none).
Sonix has a wonderful instrument design screen, with analog slider
gadgets to control ASDR envelopes, harmonic content, low frequency
oscillation, and a host of other musical terms that I do not
understand. Deluxe Music is sadly wanting in the area of instrument
design. The instruments themselves are much more rich and vibrant
and realistic sounding in Sonix.
Deluxe Music has more control over note entry and editing than Sonix.
Sonix does not support crescendo and descendo, slur notes, beam
notes, etc.
So, its kind of a weird situation...Sonix has terrific instruments
and instrument control, but DMCS has better note entry. Maybe somebody
will take the best features of each program...'Deluxe Sonix'...
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| 371.2 | ... | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Wed Mar 11 1987 20:53 | 6 | |
I forgot to mention in .1 that Sonix now supports the IFF music
format. Sonix scores are stored in .SMUS files, and actually do
work with Deluxe Music and Deluxe Video.
I hope Aegis is holding back Sonix to add some of the features of
DMCS. I would definately buy Sonix with these features.
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| 371.3 | Price Est.? | CURIUS::TOMLINSON | Sun Mar 15 1987 11:31 | 3 | |
Any idea on what this software might cost?
Kristine
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| 371.4 | MORRIS::SMCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Sun Mar 15 1987 13:01 | 5 | |
The Software Shop (Mar/Apr Amigaworld, pg 97) lists Sonix for $51
mail order (or in person Worcester Ma).
steve mcafee
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| 371.5 | Thanks | HOUSE::FRACTAL | Tue Mar 17 1987 21:52 | 8 | |
Thanks for the replys...The guy in Worcestor lists it for 51
but he doesn't have it in yet.
It sounds like a pretty good deal for 51 bucks even without
the crescendo etc etc, but it would be nice.
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| 371.6 | Sonox is here.. | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Wed Apr 08 1987 09:03 | 3 | |
I was in the Software Shop on 4/4/87, and they had a half-dozen
or so copies of Sonix. I believe the price was $51.00.
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| 371.7 | Colortone keyboard for Sonix | CGFSV1::CALENG | Calgary Field Engineers | Tue Apr 21 1987 15:37 | 8 |
Hi,
In the Sonix manual, there is reference to a Colortone keyboard
that plugs into the second mouse port. Does anybody know what it is
and where I can find it?
Thanks in advance
John
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| 371.8 | I saw Sonix.. | LABC::GRAY | Wed Apr 22 1987 14:50 | 16 | |
I saw Sonix being demonstrated in the Aegis booth at the February
Commodore Show. Aegis had a Yahmaha DX7 on a rack MIDI-ed into
an Amiga runing Sonix. The developer of the product was there giving
demos of its ability. In terms of MIDI-power, it didn't seem to
have a whole lot. When I asked if it could do multi-track sequencing,
record/playback, etc.. the developer responded to the effect that
they were in firefighting mode on the program and had just barely
squeezed out what they were showing.
I didn't see the Colortone keyboard there at that demonstration.
You might try calling Aegis Tech Support.
-Tom
Gray
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