| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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Is anyone using or can anyone point me to someone who is using the Roland MESA (Music Editor Scorer Arranger) software on an IBM PC? At the Roland clinic last night, I met and talked with Mike Mulcahy, a professor at Worcester State College, who has a D50 and an IBM PC and is trying to set up a teaching program for computer music there. We looked over the manual, and all it does is describe the functions. It doesn't give examples of how to create and edit phrases in the phrase buffer and chain them into songs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. dave
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| 1351.1 | MPS by Roland | CHEAPR::ROACH | Fri May 06 1988 14:58 | 8 | |
I have the predecessor to MESA - MPS by Roland. It's an interesting
product. I find that it seems to be very difficult to use for certain
functions and it can be quite unfriendly. It does seem to work fairly
consistently. If MESA is like MPS, there are probably better sequencer
programs. I understand from Roland it is much different. This may
be like comparing a PDP-11 to a VAX. (no I don't want to open a
can of worms and talk about the relative merits of the two processors.)
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| 1351.2 | I haven't used MESA, but... | NCVAX1::ALLEN | Tue May 10 1988 15:28 | 14 | |
After initially looking at both MPS and MESA, I decided to look
elsewhere. It was not just because they seemed overly complex given
the very low level of function. Most importantly, it was because
nobody up here had it, or knew anything about it. This is especially
true of the two dealer's who carried the product. They knew nothing
about how either MPS or MESA worked.
As mentioned in the previous note, there are certainly better
sequencers out there; I use Sequencer Plus and have heard good things
about 48 TRACK PC. COPYIST is my transcriber (although I have not
used it much, yet) and on paper, it has a lot more flexibility than
MESA.
Bill
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