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system: You are Dave Gostl, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Andy Wishart about "THE MIX".

They wrote:
AW> Yep.  Mind you, I've done the soundtracks on several independent
AW> films with this limited setup and am finishing off another now.  A
AW> problem I find, though, is getting a sufficiently separated mix.  It
AW> could be my limited experience in mixing but I'm beginning to suspect
AW> that sourcing all the sounds from one place leads to a certain
AW> muddiness.

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assistant: So Andy Wishart was saying...
It helps to have sound sources or modules from different manufacturers.
When I only had my SQ-80 as a sound source, I noticed all my sequences
had a similar sound, even if the types of patches used was radically
different.
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system: You are Gerry Clark, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Pugh about "Re: Soundcards R Us".

They wrote:
MP> On 12 Mar 97  22:12:28, Gerry Clark said the following to Mike Pugh:
GC>>  It's ok Mike, I forgive you. You can get up off your knees now and...
GC>>  ...eccchhhh, stop drooling on my boots.
GC>>
MP> Oh, sorry. Can I polish them to make it up to you? :-) mp
-=> Yours sincerely, Gerry Clark <=-

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assistant: Hi Mike, how's things?
15-Mar-97 09:13:46, Mike Pugh wrote to Gerry Clark
          Subject: Re: Soundcards R Us
 Send money instead.
system: You are Gerry Clark, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Clint Savage about "RE: SOUNDCARDS R US".

They wrote:
CS> Oh poo! Was commenting on the bit that soundcards should be a part of
CS> this
CS> echo!
-=> Yours sincerely, Gerry Clark <=-

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assistant: Hi Clint, how's things?
15-Mar-97 08:13:51, Clint Savage wrote to Gerry Clark
          Subject: RE: SOUNDCARDS R US
 Try quoting some of the messages you're replying to otherwise it gets
 a bit confusing.
system: You are Gerry Clark, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rich Lockyer about "Soundcards R Us".

They wrote:
GC>>  I wouldn't even think about it. Virtual knobs and live performance
RL> don't
GC>>  go together.
RL> One of the guys over in the GUITAR echo, Gary McGill, does an
RL> live
RL> one-man-show that's a virtual clone of his studio CD, which is
RL> Live,
RL> he sings and plays guitar and the guitar leads... everything else is
RL> through his laptop and a synth.
-=> Yours sincerely, Gerry Clark <=-

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assistant: Hi Rich, how's things?
17-Mar-97 01:24:36, Rich Lockyer wrote to Gerry Clark
          Subject: Soundcards R Us
outstanding
excellent.
one
 Does he alter any settings live via his laptop or does he just leave it
 running?
 I took an Atari out on tour with me a few years ago but I found that
 switching patches via software was just too slow. Trying to click
 a mouse on the right spot when you're under pressure can be a dodgy
 experience.
 The Atari didn't make it to the end of the tour.
system: You are Rodney Rudd, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Gostl about "Yamaha FB01".

They wrote:
DG> I almost bought an FB-01 years ago. IIRC, its like a soundcard in that
DG> there is not too much you can edit from the front panel, but with a
DG> I think the parameters are similar to a Yamaha DX-100.

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assistant: You can edit a lot from the front panel, like MIDI channels, L-R, keysplit
range, setups, configurations, etc.  But you can't edit the tone patches
without a computer.
Could be, I'm not too sure.  I've never gotten around to editing any FB01
sounds.
system: You are Rich Lockyer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gerry Clark about "Soundcards R Us".

They wrote:
GC>  Does he alter any settings live via his laptop or does he just leave it
GC>  running?
GC>  I took an Atari out on tour with me a few years ago but I found that
GC>  switching patches via software was just too slow. Trying to click
GC>  a mouse on the right spot when you're under pressure can be a dodgy
GC>  experience.
GC>  The Atari didn't make it to the end of the tour.

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assistant: Hello Gerry!
On 20 Mar 97, Gerry Clark wrote to Rich Lockyer:
I think he's got the whole show set up beforehand so all he has to do is cue
up each set.
I can imagine.
C-ya! Rich
system: You are Tony Baechler, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Williams about "Re: CLASSICAL MUSIC".

They wrote:
MW> interested in any of my files I do have available demo files of all my
MW> work. If
MW> you would care to suggest a method of getting them to you I would be

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assistant: |Quoting Mark to Clint on 03-13-97  04:26.|
I am not going to call the UK for these demos, but I would like them.
If you are unable to do Internet email then I do not know what to
suggest, otherwise feel free to please send demos as attachments to
tb@earthling.net.  If you can do ftp, write to the above address and I
will make a temporary ftp upload directory available for you to put
files in.
Internet email: Tony Baechler, tb@earthling.net, or visit the
interactive fiction archive at ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive.
... Moderator: Burned out shell of a computer hobbyist.
___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30
system: You are Marc Williams, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Julie Pritchard about "Hello!".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Julie Pritchard to All <=-
JP> Well does anyone write on this BBS?  Someone please write so I know
JP> ya'll haven't forgotten me.
>> ANIME SENSHI <<

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assistant: Howdy,
So what to write. Things are getting slow lately.
Darn internet!   :-)
Marc
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marcw@lightside.com   (finger: marcw@mail.lightside.com)
marc.williams@mb.fidonet.org
... "He's losing his mind and he feels it going!"
system: You are Ross Watkins, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rodney Rudd about "YAMAHA FB01".

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assistant: I used to own a DX-100 and FB-01.  They are the same FM sounds.  The FB-01
really needs a computer to use it properly.  The DX-100 could be edited using
the MODE buttons....
system: You are Mike Pugh, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gerry Clark about "Re: Soundcards R Us".

They wrote:
GC> GC>>  It's ok Mike, I forgive you. You can get up off your knees now
GC> GC>>  ...eccchhhh, stop drooling on my boots.
GC> GC>>
GC>  MP> Oh, sorry. Can I polish them to make it up to you? :-) mp
GC>
GC>  Send money instead.
GC>

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assistant: On 20 Mar 97  09:50:46, Gerry Clark said the following to Mike Pugh:
and...
I'm a working musician, you *KNOW* that I have no money!! mp
system: You are Ruben Schouten, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Julie Pritchard about "Hello!".

They wrote:
JP> Well does anyone write on this BBS?  Someone please write so I know ya'll
JP> haven't forgotten me.

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assistant: On <23 Mar, 17:19>, Julie Pritchard wrote to All :
Ehrmm, well... I'm writing on THIS BBS, which is my own  :-)  but then again,
I don't think you mean that, do you? What is the problem, I just got "back to
life" on the international FidoNet area's...
Byebye, Ruben...
system: You are Nancy Wood, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Julie Pritchard about "Hello!".

They wrote:
JP>Well does anyone write on this BBS?  Someone please write so I know ya'
JP>haven't forgotten me.
JP>--- Maximus 2.02
JP> * Origin: The Spotlight BBS - (905)270-7045/6381 v.32bis/v.34 (1:259/5

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assistant: I don't know about the folks on your bbs, but your message madeit to San
Antonio. <G>
Wanna talk about Midi equipment, since MIDI-NET is the message base it was
posted in...<BG>
Personally I'd prefer some Roland or Kurzweil equipment but the Kurzweil
grands are a little too pricey for what they are able to do.
Nancy
Nancy
 * Wave Rider 1.10 [NR] *
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system: You are Markell Moss, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rodney Rudd about "Re: Soundcards R Us".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Rodney Rudd to Mike Pugh <=-
RR> Well, I wouldn't go so far as to ban all the soundcard discussions.  I
RR> just think the direction of the conference should be to encourage
RR> discussion of the more traditional MIDI topics.

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assistant: Besides, that's what MY Fidonet Echo is for!  :)
Moderator of the ADLIB/Sound Card Discussion Echo-
Take your sound card questions to that area and you'll be helped more
readily...
TTYL!
... No Tagline Today...
system: You are Mark Williams, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Clint Savage about "CLASSICAL MUSIC".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Clint Savage to Mark Williams <=-
> For years I used Cubase on the Atari ST computer then switched over
> to Cubase
CS> Tnx Mark; Did not notice that you were int the U.K. That makes file
CS> I use Cakewalk's <g>(3 versions on the H/D) but am not a programmer.

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assistant: Oh.. you are right... I am in the UK :-))
I have that here too but have not had time to really get into it yet.
Is there no mechanism within FidoNet to transfer private files across the
Atlantic ?
MARK.
system: You are Mark Williams, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rodney Rudd about "Classical Music".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Rodney Rudd to Mark Williams <=-
MW> Do you have access to a 24-32 note polyphony, 16
MW> part multi-timbral instrument ?
RR>
RR> No.  That's part of the problem.
RR> All my MIDI gear is Jurassic Era.  :)
RR>
RR> P.S. Are you the Mark Williams of "Mark Williams C" programming
RR> language for the Atari ST computers?

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assistant: Maybe Speilberg would be interested in it then :-)
 No I am not... and for the amount of times I have been asked that I could
have
written a programming language!
 MARK.
system: You are Rodney Rudd, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Markell Moss about "Re: Soundcards R Us".

They wrote:
MM> Moderator of the ADLIB/Sound Card Discussion Echo-
MM> Take your sound card questions to that area and you'll be helped more
MM> readily...

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assistant: Thanks for the info.  I'm afraid my soundcard is beyond help at this point!
:)
system: You are Clint Savage, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Williams about "CLASSICAL MUSIC".

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assistant: Well Mark; I get midi files on AOL (America on line) in a text format. I use
the program MIME64D.EXE to convert them to binary. Not sure if the program
will put them into ascii mode, never looked.<g> Just looked in my "docs" file
and there is no mime64d file???? There are other programs that do this but if
FIDO has a size constrant on message size then this would not work. Now on
the internet??? It should be possible. My internet address is
clint.savage@24stex.com
I am not a web rider just use Telnet and FTP text modes. Some day maby will
fight the win programs and upgrade. Currently can't even get the scanner to
work in 2 programs.
Clint
system: You are Dave Ewen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Hello!".

They wrote:
MW>So what to write. Things are getting slow lately.
MW>Darn internet!   :-)

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assistant: I was looking at alt.binaries.sounds.midi and this seems really cool --
except that I haven't gotten it to work yet.
Midi files are Mime encoded into the messages posted there and can be
played with a mouse click. Netscape does the decoding.
I get an error message about my disk cache not being big enough, but I
don't know if that is really my problem. Maybe someone here knows how
to make it work?
system: You are Thierry Murcia, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "MIDIFILES".

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assistant: Salut tout le monde...
Collectionneur de Midifiles j'�change 50 Mb de MID de qualit�
professionnelle. Avis aux amateurs...
Quant aux intermittents du spectacle un soft unique pour PC
est disponible. (Dos ou Windows)
Amicalement, Thierry.
system: You are Nigel Airey, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "".

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assistant: Hi folks,
       New to the area so I thought I'd say hello. One of my main interests
s
music, especially house/techno. I've just bought a Yamaha CS1X, and whilst
some
stormin' sounds come from the speakers, the only way of building a track is
o
use an external sequencer. The program I'm using is Octamed Sound Studio,
running on an Amiga 500+, yeah, I know :-)  with 2MB RAM and 170MB HD. Is
his
the best prog for MIDI work or does anyone have other suggestions. Maybe a
dedicated sequencer would be a better way to go. Looking forward to hearing
your
views.
                          Catcha later,
                             Nigel
system: You are Barry Birchall, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Clint Savage about "MIDI FILE".

They wrote:
CS> Sir what do you mean by "Pro"?  I have gathered some nice things.

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assistant: By Pro I mean any thing that has been produced with love and some measure of
music knowlage, and makes use of program changes, sys exe etc etc. I tend to
use
Midi files as backing music as a guitar player I need some sort of backing.
system: You are Bjorn Kristiansen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Julie Pritchard about "Hello!".

They wrote:
JP> Well does anyone write on this BBS?  Someone please write so I know
JP> ya'll haven't forgotten me.

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assistant: On (23 Mar 97) Julie Pritchard wrote to All...
Hehe.. I'm not on your bbs, but I do write in this conference, though..
Say, do you know of a good source to quality midi files (preferrably on the
net)? BTW: What are your interests in midi?
-Bjorn
system: You are Rich Lockyer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Ewen about "Hello!".

They wrote:
DE> Midi files are Mime encoded into the messages posted there and can be
DE> played with a mouse click. Netscape does the decoding.
DE> I get an error message about my disk cache not being big enough, but I
DE> don't know if that is really my problem. Maybe someone here knows how
DE> to make it work?

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assistant: Hello Dave!
On 30 Mar 97, Dave Ewen wrote to All:
Rather than using Netscape, use a newsgroup reader like Free Agent.  It does
NOT include a MIME/base 64 decoder, but you can use an external utility such
as SJHB64.EXE for that.
Free Agent is somewhat different than Netscape... you download the headers,
then select which article bodies you wish to retrieve and trash the rest.
Once you retrieve the bodies, if it's UUE encoded, F.A. will do it... if not,
export the body to a file with a .B64 extension and run SJHB64 on the file.
C-ya! Rich
system: You are Jay Jose, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Midisoft Studio for WIN".

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assistant: Hello.  I have Midisoft Studio for Windows.  I think the program is great.  I
only have one problem.  When i try to print the music scores, it won't print.
Studio processes the pages to be printed but after its done that. the printer
doesn't print it!
        This might not even be a post regarding midis but is there anyone who
has Studio that might know how to correct my problem?   THankyou.
                                                                Jay
system: You are Marc Williams, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Ewen about "Hello!".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Dave Ewen to All <=-
DE> I was looking at alt.binaries.sounds.midi and this seems really cool
DE> -- except that I haven't gotten it to work yet.
DE> Midi files are Mime encoded into the messages posted there and can be
DE> played with a mouse click. Netscape does the decoding.
DE> I get an error message about my disk cache not being big enough, but I
DE> don't know if that is really my problem. Maybe someone here knows how
DE> to make it work?
>> ANIME SENSHI <<

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assistant: I'm not too sure about the cache. I never used Netscape's newsreader
much. I used to use OUI Newsreader. It handled MIDI files real good
since it used whatever midi file player you had setup in Windows.
What's the size of your cache? It just may not be big enough
for NS to do conversion work. Set the cache larger and see if the
error messages go away.
My sister has the Win95/Netscape computer and I haven't been on it
in awhile. I think I had the cache set for a couple meg but not sure.
Marc
--
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marcw@lightside.com   (finger: marcw@mail.lightside.com)
marc.williams@mb.fidonet.org
system: You are Rich Lockyer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jay Jose about "Midisoft Studio for WIN".

They wrote:
JJ> Hello.  I have Midisoft Studio for Windows.  I think the program is
JJ> I only have one problem.  When i try to print the music scores, it won't
JJ> print. Studio processes the pages to be printed but after its done that.

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assistant: Hello Jay!
On 31 Mar 97, Jay Jose wrote to All:
great.
What kind of printer do you have, and does it respond at all?  I've got an HP
Laserjet 4P, and if I try to send a file that is too big for it's internal
memory, it will sometimes print a partial page and sometimes not at all.  It
DOES respond though... the green light flashes indicating that it's getting
data.  I haven't had a problem with MSSW, but I assume that this could happen
if I tried to print a very large score.
One note though, when MSSW prints a score, it's not something you'd take to
orchestra practice.  While it MIGHT be possible to print one track at a time,
the default print will print all tracks on a separate staff, so your first
bar will be an entire page (or two, depending on how many tracks you have).
C-ya! Rich
system: You are Clint Savage, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Barry Birchall about "MIDI FILE".

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assistant: Barry, there are 2 persons that come to mind Re; "pro" music. one is
GaryW0001 on aol. He's into big band type things ie; john Williams and the
early bigBand type stuff. Some with melody track.
The other is Arnie Gross, sometimes here on Fido. He also produces vary nice
things and has a BBS. If interested I'll look up the name. I cleaned out AOL
of what Gary had placed there. If your looking for the "rock" type sounds
then these fall short.  <g>  Clint
system: You are Dave Gostl, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dave Ewen about "RE:HELLO!".

They wrote:
DE> Midi files are Mime encoded into the messages posted there and can be
DE> played with a mouse click. Netscape does the decoding.
DE> I get an error message about my disk cache not being big enough, but I
DE> don't know if that is really my problem. Maybe someone here knows how
DE> to make it work?

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assistant: So Dave Ewen was saying...
There are a lot of steps to go through to convert mime data into sound
from your speakers!!
Can you view pictures in the newsgroups in Netscape? Pics need a lot more
disk cache space compared to midifiles. I'd guess the problem is something
else.
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system: You are Dave Gostl, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Midi-Net message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Nigel Airey about "RE:".

They wrote:
NA> is music, especially house/techno. I've just bought a Yamaha CS1X,
NA> and whilst some stormin' sounds come from the speakers, the only way
NA> of building a track is to use an external sequencer. The program I'm
NA> using is Octamed Sound Studio, running on an Amiga 500+, yeah, I know
NA> :-)  with 2MB RAM and 170MB HD. Is this the best prog for MIDI work
NA> or does anyone have other suggestions. Maybe a dedicated sequencer
NA> would be a better way to go. Looking forward to hearing your views.

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assistant: So Nigel Airey was saying...
Is that the old analog synth with some of the switches behind a little
panel?
Nothing wrong with Amiga, but the better sequencer programs run on Ataris.
There might be better progs for midi on the Amiga.
Forget that hardware sequencer. You could get an Atari ST, monitor, Cubase
(or just about any used software) for less money and less hassle too.
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