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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Amiga KCS 3.5
- Message-ID: <92245.082431M-WHIT2@UMINN1.BITNET>
- From: Michael Whitten <M-WHIT2@UMINN1.BITNET>
- Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 08:24:31 CST
- References: <1992Aug24.085722.17139@cs.tcd.ie><92237.084659M-WHIT2@UMINN1.BITNET> <52735@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Organization: University of Minnesota - Computer & Information Services
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- On Aug 31 1992, barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) said:
- >>One of my favorite debates! MusicX: pretty and useless and doesn't work.
- > Doesn't work? Could you be a little more specific... like,
- >maybe actually present some evidence?
- >
- > I've used Music-X for years and it works fine for me. It certainly
- >has some flaws -- in particular, the Bar Editor screen refreshes too slowly
- >during playback -- but it has tons of functionality.
- >
- > Dan
-
- I think if a midi sequencer can't record midi accurately, it pretty well
- has zero functionality. If I watch the Error gadget (Huh? why would a
- midi sequencer even HAVE an error gadget, you ask?) and play even simple
- monophonic notes into Music-X it will tally approximately 1 note error
- every 8-10 notes....those errors are 'hanging' notes - notes without a
- note-off and that's wholly unacceptable. The other area of dysfunction is
- the Library section where the sysex librarian features of Music-X lie.
- What can I say? .... midi errors abound here, too. BTW, I was using an
- 1M Rev 5 A500, 1.3, and an ECE interface; I tried Music-X on four other
- similar setups with various midi interfaces and got the same thing.
- Subsequent back & forth mail with Matt Nathan at MicroIllusions finally
- had David Joiner (programmer) flaming Commodore's hardware & OS rather than
- his own midi driver. Dan, if that stuff ain't happening to you, then
- you've got a 'good' release. This was version 1.1......1.0 had done the same
- thing when I had hoped they'd fixed it. Something very fishy about that
- Micro'sIllusion outfit - they blew me off completely after that episode.
- With the release of Music-X 2.0 I will renew my own efforts to seek justice,
- but as it stands now, with their complete failure to follow up and their
- cavalier blaming of others for their own technical lack I have become
- dis-Micro-Illusioned. I wouldn't have bothered if I didn't think the
- program had a kernel of merit, but slowness also made it unusable - slowness
- in screen updating and in the roundabout notion of explicitly 'storing'
- and slotting sequences for use. I liked the grid, though, too....maybe too
- much - before long, I found myself accomodating the graphic aesthetic of
- grid display rather than the music and that's when I went back to KCS. It
- was like the difference between television and radio - with radio, the images
- were in my head, not on a screen...but, hey, that's just me and MY foibles.
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