davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) (02/15/88)
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Hi there! I've seen ads for Music-X lately, and I was curious if somone
in-the-know would enlighten me on how it stacks up to, say, soundscape.
I need a nice visually-oriented sequencer and a patch editor/librarian
for the ESQ-1 & the MT-32. It sounds like Music-X might be just the
ticket. Is it actually shipping yet? Any info would be appreciated.
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Wayne Davison ...amdahl!drivax!davison
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Osauha, zgp'd fgdmaq dg zalgza dmjh. Jd jh baqc ypjpkgqeudjba.cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (02/17/88)
In article <3065@drivax.UUCP> davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) writes: > Hi there! I've seen ads for Music-X lately, and I was curious if somone > in-the-know would enlighten me on how it stacks up to, say, soundscape. David Joiner, the author of Music-X has stated on BIX that he isn't finished writing it. (Now why they are advertising it I don't know). So you can't really tell how it stacks up to anything. What he had running at AmiExpo looked nice, I can only guess that he will continue the trend and come out with a decent package. My personal feeling on such things, is that when something is *done* and the author has moved on to other projects it takes something like 3-4 months to hit every dealer, since he isn't done with it yet I would guess it will be another 6-8 months before we see it. ALL SPECULATION AND OPINION, no claim is made to representing true facts beyond the initial sentence. On a different note, I went to Uniforum (where Atari had a booth and was showing some word processor for business, but I didn't see anyone stopping there.) Informix was giving away these nifty shoulder bags if you sat through a presentation on their new Mac II spreadsheet called Wings. (Also still vapor). The funny thing was after seeing the presentation I thought to myself, "Self, where have I seen this before?" and the answer was of course "in MaxiPlan!". To be fair, there were some differences (mostly in the word processing area) but the spread sheet capabilities were the same. I asked the marketing weenie if they had ever seen Maxiplan on an Amiga, and after explaining what an Amiga was he admitted he hadn't. (But I got the distinct impression that he would soon.) It also occured to me that it would be possible to do something 10 times better with the Amiga ASSUMING you could get one piece of co-operation from various vendors, specifically, they supported the clip board with IFF images *only* (they could do full clipboard support if they wanted, but only images are really required). Then you could take your MaxiPlan graph, or your Deluxe Paint sketch and drop it into your Shakespeare or ProWrite document. Of course you have a couple of Meg of memory so you can run all of these at the same time no? The combination becomes very, very powerful. Anyway, I got excited over the possibilities. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.