KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Kendall 'Opusii' Sears) (05/14/89)
>> Jeff Wabik writes ... >> .......... When inputting from the (piano) keyboard, aside from >> not capturing note durations correctly, any even slightly "complex" >> (more than one simultaneously) or quickly-entered notes cause DMCS to >> guru .. Average Amiga uptime once inputting via MIDI is about 5 >> seconds. > > I have run DMCS since I first got my Amiga 18 months ago and have > never had any problem like this. I think you still have a hardware > problem, because despite its limitations in functionality, DMCS is as > far as I know at least stable. Otherwise I think we all would have Nope I have had problems with DMCS Guru'ing when reading from my synthesizer. My setup is extremely stable, ie ECE midi, Casio CZ230S, A500. I don't have ANY problems with any software EXCEPT DMCS. Thus I use other various programs to sequence, and then use DMCS to edit the resulting score. > Depending on what specific application you are interested in, Dr. T's > has about the best software going for the Amiga (in my humble > unpartisan opinion), but it also costs more. The KCS sequencer is > excellent, and the new Level II addon to the sequencer has amazing I agree Dr. T's is the best that I've seen so far. But it is still lacking in some respects. I hope soon to see something for the amiga that is written by a group of Amiga Programmers/MIDI'ist. I personally think that something written by such a group would be absolutely awesome. Comments Anyone? Opusii Kendall "Opusii" Sears KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.bitnet ...!psuvax!ulkyvx.bitnet!KRSEAR01 (UUCP) K.SEARS (GEnie) --------------------------------------------------- "VIC's LIVE... Really. I just used one..."
page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page) (05/15/89)
KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Kendall 'Opusii' Sears) wrote: >I have had problems with DMCS Guru'ing when reading from my synth... Everybody does. The timing base is not stable enough in DMCS, and the thing is written in 4 bitplane mode so the graphics steals clock cycles from the CPU, which means you can't catch all the serial port interrupts. This is the program that launched a thousand ST fanatics (and the press, unfortunately) to cry "the Amiga can't do MIDI". For a good time, have dmcs do a read from MIDI and wiggle your synthesizer's modulation or pitch bend wheel. Instant crash. Electronic Arts has continually said, since before version 1, that DMCS is not meant to be a MIDI input device. That's why it has a SoundScape port in it, so you can have SoundScape do all the timing and MIDI work. >I hope soon to see something for the amiga that is written by a group >of Amiga Programmers/MIDI'ist. I personally think that something >written by such a group would be absolutely awesome. Whadja have in mind? If you're into Forth, you can use HMSL, by far the most powerful and flexible of all the "sequencers" (although that's not really a good term for what it is). You'll have to throw away your idea of how to do music scoring, but you won't mind. HMSL is not cheap, but how can you put a price on flexibility? :-) For cheap stuff, Bill Barton's midi.library is a nice base to start from -- it's modular, documented, stable, and free! Comes with a bunch of low-level tools (with source) that you can use or build on. For another, Pete Yadlowsky recently released MidiClock, which provides a stable timebase on which to build MIDI applications. It's written in Forth but doesn't look too hard to convert to C if you're so inclined. There's also a publicly available generic synth programmer/librarian called 'glib' that getting wide use. All this cheap stuff should be on People/Link, and maybe BIX. Some of it has been posted to comp.binaries.amiga, so check your favorite archive. HMSL is a commercial product. >Comments Anyone? Things are coming along. Maybe slowly, but that's where you can come in. Make your own contribution, or give encouragement to these folks. And spread the word about tools you find. Just like there are a lot of text editors, we'll probably see a lot of publicly available MIDI tools soon. ..bob
terry@braille.uwo.ca (terry cudney) (05/19/89)
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You'll find the most recent version of glib (alpha v1.6) recently posted on
comp.sources.misc. It is the C source for Manx with an Amiga makefile.
--terry
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******************************************************************************/mjm@manatee.cis.ufl.edu (Michael Murphy) (05/22/89)
Would some of you Amiga-midi users mind emailing me info on what software & hardware you're using? Specifically, i'd like to be able to have a different synth controller tell the Amiga to play (i'd like my Ibanez XMG midi guitar controller to be able to play samples that i make with Perfect Sound & AudioMaster). Thanks in advance for any info. And i'll summarize & forward if anyone else is interested. -Michael Murphy mjm@beach.cis.ufl.edu -- -Michael Murphy mjm@beach.cis.ufl.edu