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- From: mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Deluxe Music Construction Set - Upgrade??
- Message-ID: <59321@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 11:46:35 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.174143.29439@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Harri Pesonen writes:
-
- >I just bought CU Amiga july issue, and with it came OctaMed Professional v3.0.
- >OctaMed has everything you will ever need. Musical notation is not as good
- >as in DMCS, but you can't create any effects (slide, fade, tremolo etc.)
- >with it. So you should consider learning to use note tracks, as they are
- >more flexible.
-
- The problem is that, if your ultimate purpose is not music performance BY
- the computer, this isn't an improvement. Almost everything I write is vocal
- w/accompaniment; humans need sheet music. The only acceptable compromise
- I've found is to use DMCS to edit and play the music, and then export it to
- Copyist to produce the paper output. DMCS makes a zillion simplifying
- assumptions which simply aren't true of a lot of the music I work with;
- Copyist deals with them at the expense of not being able to play; also, it
- has a rotten user interface and the importing process doesn't handle the
- output of DCMS correctly in all cases (which may well be a function of the
- latter). DMCS doesn't produce sufficiently good paper output for human use.
-
- Every other program I've seen is worse; they are all, at best, sequencers
- with some notational frosting on top. From my perspective, they have all
- the drawbacks of DMCS and more.
-
- I've come to the point where it seems I shall have to develop my own
- package, unless an improved DMCS appears which does what is needed.
- --
- C. Wingate + "The peace of God, it is no peace,
- + but strife closed in the sod.
- mangoe@cs.umd.edu + Yet, brothers, pray for but one thing:
- tove!mangoe + the marv'lous peace of God."
-