ex343@uiucuxf.cso.uiuc.edu (12/13/87)
Hi there,
I am very interested in music especially classical music. I will get a
new job soon, and I am interested in buying a personal computer. My primary
interest in the personal computer is writing music and play them on my
stereo equipment. It has to generate high quality stereo sound and has
user friendly software that I can write music with. It has to be able to
emulate various types of instrument. I also like to have a Fourie analyzer
in it. Well, in short, the more options there are the better. Note I am
not interested in doing anything else on that computer since I will have
access to a HUGE VAX cluster in my new job. The only thing I am interested
is music.
I heard that Amiga and atari are pretty good music sythesizers, but
I don't not know what kind of things I can do with it. Would some one send
me some suggestions as to which machine I should buy along with what software?
Also if you can give me a brief description of what that machine/software
can/cannot do, that will be great.
Please send me e-mail at xia%uicsrd@a.cs.uiuc.edu .
Thanks in advance.
Eugenerichard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (12/16/87)
In article <46200008@uiucuxf> ex343@uiucuxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >Hi there, > > > I heard that Amiga and atari are pretty good music sythesizers, but >I don't not know what kind of things I can do with it. Would some one send >me some suggestions as to which machine I should buy. Well, more net.goddesses have amiga's than atari's. (Makes as much sense as anything else) {Carefull with that ax} >Eugene -- "Well they say, that Santa Fe, is more, than 90 miles away" UUCP: {ihnp4!crash, hplabs!hp-sdd!crash}!gryphon!richard INET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM
peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (12/17/87)
In article <46200008@uiucuxf>, ex343@uiucuxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > I heard that Amiga and atari are pretty good music sythesizers, but > I don't not know what kind of things I can do with it. Would some one send > me some suggestions as to which machine I should buy along with what software? The Amiga is a pretty good synthesizer... at least the 500 and 2000 are. The 1000 is only a decent synth. The Atari has no built-in synth capabilities at all. If all you want to do is music, a Mac or a PC/AT might be better... there's more software currently available for them. If you don't already have a keyboard, the 500 is probably the best value you can get for low-cost music synthesis going. > Also if you can give me a brief description of what that machine/software > can/cannot do, that will be great. The Amiga cannot: Protect tasks from each other. Realistically support multiuser work. On the other hand it can: Run as many tasks as you have memory for. It can run more tasks in a given amount of RAM than any of the other personal machines in their native O/S. Produce the best graphics and sound of any machine in the under 5 grand area. Support up to 10 MIPS peak performance for simple array operations that can be supported by the blitter. Generally it's more like a less than 300 KIPS machine. Support any hard drive the Mac can, for about 2-300 bucks more for the SCSI interface. Support up to 9 megabytes of memory without breaking the rules. (back to multitasking) the number of commercial applications that can not run multitasked can be counted on the fingers of one foot. You never have to code in assembly language again. Even for device drivers. (sustained cheer). You communicate between tasks using message ports. Mutual exclusion can be handled by passing messages, or by explicit semaphores. VMS people will love the ASSIGN statement. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.