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An Ensoniq Mirage!! --An Ensoniq Mirage!!! Wow! You have one
<eplative deleted> setup there! Please keep this file posted with
your comments on the system!
I am MIDIed into my Amiga with the Midi Designs MIDI interface and
run Music Studio. I am not that happy with either of these products,
but I bought them along time ago (right after the Amiga came out
and products of this nature started shipping...01/86ish.)
You are right not to buy Music Studio --I think it is pretty poor
(with a little work though, they could make it a decent product!)
I am not that impressed with the Deluxe Music Construction Set (by
Electronic Arts) or the Sonix package (by Aegis) --though I have
only seen these programs demoed. (I do not own either of them.)
My solution, being a S/W techy, is to write my own system which will
play/record/sequence (multi-track playback) and read/write files with
Music Studio, so I can use its fancy graphic oriented note editor. A
product that accepts MIDI-data "live" off of the serial port and puts
it "live" on a note staff with auto-correction properly implemented
(to correctly score the durration of every note) would be a major
undertaking. Based on what I saw from Aegis, Electronic Arts, and
Activision at the Commodore Show in February, I don't think there
will a product that advanced "on the market" for at least six months
to a year. Based on what I have seen, the best commercial system
out there seems to be the Mimmetics SoundScape package, though I
don't think it has a note-editor. (I believe it does have multitrack
record/playback capability though.)
In terms of MIDI interfaces, the best one I have seen is the MIDIgold
box which has multiple MIDI IN and OUT ports.
I am really interested in creativity-type stuff combining MIDI
instruments (I am working with Yahmaha's DX, FB, and RX stuff), video
(ala Genlock, Alive, VCR --I am going to get the Genlock when Alive
ships next month), and software (Deluxe Paint, and my own custom
stuff...) This machine is fantastic. I mixed the track "OPUS"
off the "Art of Noise" albumn on my CD with some images from
Kaliedascope right after I bought my Amiga and the results were
enough to get a local night-club interested in using my stuff!!!
Good luck with your Ensoniq Mirage.
-Tom
Gray
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| re: < Note 441.1 by LABC::GRAY >
> Based on what I have seen, the best commercial system
> out there seems to be the Mimmetics SoundScape package, though I
> don't think it has a note-editor. (I believe it does have multitrack
> record/playback capability though.)
Not too sure what a "note-editor" is, but SoundScape allows you
to edit MIDI events including note value (pitch) and note length
(duration).
John
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| Mimmetics SoundScape package does not have note editing. I have
been using it trying to learn how to record a 'song' and then edit
it later which seems to be quite difficult. The documentation is
sparse, but the software is quite powerful. We us it primarily
for entering 'step time' track data, which is a way to enter MIDI
note and time information so that is is played back exactly as you
entered it.
If anyone has any comments or questions on this software I would
love to entertain them.
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| I am looking for any C source code that anyone has written, that
will read from the the serial port MIDI data. I have tried
unsuccessfully to do such as that, and I am currently getting very
frustrated. If anyone has, or can get their hands on some sources,
please let me know!!!
Thanx A Lot
Derek
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