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- From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: MUSIC WRITER GS information needed!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.180945.21212@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1992Jul29.044954.3346@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Jul29.162249.21506@utstat.uucp> <31JUL199205191306@vax2.concordia.ca>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:09:45 GMT
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- In article <31JUL199205191306@vax2.concordia.ca> spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:
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- [ ]
- >
- > I have an older version 1.3 (Professional) which seems to work with MIDI
- >output to my keyboard, but the input to the GS never worked (i.e. Playing
- >scores on my MIDI keyboard to be converted into musical notation on screen).
- >The sound quality MusicWriter produces through the Ensoniq chip is simply
- >awful, sounding like music produced on a Macintosh Plus (or worse)!
-
- 2.0's sound is better though not great- better than on a Mac+ though! The
- purpose of MW was always notational. I don't think they gave much thought
- to their instruments. Had they supported MidiSynth then we would all have
- benifitted. I guess I should find out what became of them. Their products
- were not inexpensive, and to just leave( as was mentioned by Todd W.) the
- GS market soon after their 2.0 upgrade seems unfair, especially since they
- seemed not to have informed their customers.
- >
- >>What would be nice would be a midi (standard) translator which would take
- >>files from other systems and translate them into SL or DT sequences.
- >
- > "Music Modifier" can convert pc/mac/amiga/atari/etc MIDI file into either
- >Diversi-Tune or synthLAB sequences. It also does conversion of SL->DT or
- >visa-versa. The version I have is exteremly slow, runs under GS/OS although
- >uses a poorly designed ASCII text display, and rarely does successful
- >conversions. If a newer version exists I'd like to know. I've also heard
- >of something called "MidiMate", but have never seen it. Most SL sequences
- >have been converted from DT, Music Studio, and MIDI files, so there's some
- >program out there capable of doing proper conversions!
-
- Where can one get Music Modifier? MidiMate?
- >
- > At the moment synthLAB is my favorite of music programs! The tone quality
- >of instruments is incredible! (especially the Orchestra wavebank, and no
- >longer supported "INSTF.BNK" with pipeorgan, tubularbells, harpischord, etc)!
-
- Ah, how nice to hear this. Finally someone with taste. You should try to
- get hold of Minstrel or Ears, etc...by Chris M. . Minstrel is a SoftDisk GS
- NDA that plays back SL pieces. Rather nice to play Mahjong and have Minstrel
- playing in the background.
-
- Philip McDunnough
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-