C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) (01/16/90)
...software, that is. I really think someone could earn a bundle of moolah by
filling a gap in Amiga music software. What features will sell? How about
a music scoring/playing system that allows real-time alteration of Amiga voice
parameters during a song. For example, allow parameters of an instrument to
change while a song is playing. WHOA! What a novel idea! Let the user
put crescendos, decrescendos, vibrato, tempo changes, key changes, instrument
changes, synth parameter changes, this changes, that changes, etc. into the
musical score. Allow triplets, quadruplets, time signature changes, ritards,
atempos, etc. Allow manipulation of ADSR rates and levels during a song.
Allow the use of sampled sound instruments (a la Sonix) as well as synthesized
ones. Provide a player that can be freely distributed.
For the record, I have never used Deluxe Music Construction Set. I have
Sonix, and it has limitations. I think that DMCS might fix some of the
shortcomings of Sonix, but I think the real-time manipulation of sound in
Amiga music has not yet been offered in a software package. For people who
haven't got the time or money to get into MIDI, the program I described above
would be really useful. What do you say? If anyone is working on this sort
of thing or if you are interested in it, send me email. I am *not* an Amiga
programmer (yet), and I don't know C, but maybe someone else out there will
seize this opportunity and write a best-selling Music Program. I'll buy it.
As a final question, I saw mention of a program that allows up to 8 voices
to be played with standard Amiga hardware. I think it was called "Oktalyzer".
Has anyone heard of it, and/or are usable 'virtual voices' possible with the
current standard Amiga hardware?
/ Baird McIntosh (2nd yr CS/Math major, University of Missouri-Columbia)
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