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- From: danny@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Danny Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: GENERIC Synth Patch Editor Code (1/2)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.101005.26233@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 10:10:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.111530.2895@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.163123.22084@aston.ac.uk>
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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- wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim) writes:
-
- >Okay, I pulled this down and had a play with it (I've got a
- >Yamaha TX 81z) and here are my first thoughts.
- >1 - It's very pretty, nicely programmed... reminds me in a way
- > of the Midi Manager page from Cubase but with a few more
- > dedicated features like envelope displays.
- >2 - The price is listed in the docs as 29 uk pounds, or quite
- > a bit more in the states... I think 50 dollars plus about
- > 20 dollars airmail as it's a UK company. This means this
- > is more a demo than PD (Quite a lot is disabled) but the
- > actual software is pretty cheap (other generic editors go
- > for 1-200 uk pounds, from what I've seen... anyone know
- > better?)
- >3 - It _doesn't_ say whether you could program your own editor
- > modules if you bought the software, or if you'd need to buy
- > them as well... Does the original poster know?
-
- No you can't at the moment. This is a VERY non-trivial task. Coupled with
- this, the programmer involved has been working on it for over a year
- now. He needs to make a living, so this is how he intends to recoup his
- time.
-
- >4 - The load up time stinks. I'm running TOS 1.4 off a Sysquest
- > Hard drive and this thing took _one_and_a_quarter_minutes_
- > to load (I timed it...) which is way slower than anything
- > else I've seen. If the DA version (included in the full
- > package) takes this long to load, I'd never use it... this
- > (to my mind) is the biggest problem.
-
- It takes roughly that time off a floppy drive as well. I didn't realise
- it took that time off a hard drive as well. I'll ask the author about it.
- I don't know how long the DA version takes to load on boot up, but certainly
- when I used it on subsequent runs, it pops up instantaneously, ready to go !
-
- Any further feedback, gratefully received.
-
- Additionally, apologies to everyone who has to use modems to download news,
- or who has to pay for it. This was a long posting and I was unaware of the
- existance of the binaries group. Sorry for the time wasted.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Danny
-