brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested) (10/22/89)
My desire is to get into music composition, not having any formal training. I have looked at a few keyboards, and have found the Roland D-5 to be sufficient for my needs (8 voices plus drums). Now, the hard part. Realizing the rivalry between Amiga and Atari exists, I ask those of you with some experience with both machines to help someone to decide the "best path for my particular needs." I am aware, also, that both Commodore and Atari will have new machines out soon. This may be under the category of sci-fi, though. In any case, I shy away from small systems, like the A500, for future support reasons, and the fact I will necessarily need large memory (~1 MB RAM to begin with). I am afraid, however, that local support of both machines is spotty here in Portland, Oregon. Sure, there's PC's (dull, number-crunching-intensive machines), and there's MAC's (too overpriced). Is there an optimum solution? Money is, of course, an issue. A few grand is ok for a music system, CPU, a word processor, and a couple games. But for amounts over that, I think I will simply crawl back into my shell and wait for cheaper times ahead. Thank you so much. ================================================================================ | Brandon G. Lovested | "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, | indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM | My life is my own." | ================================================================================
hedger@inmet (10/23/89)
Both the Atari ST and the Amiga are fine for MIDI processing, but I would recommend the Atari and heres why: 1) Built in MIDI ports. 2) Price (1040st,mono monitor = @800.00) 3) Software Availability- There is a LOT of music software available for the ST. I don't think this is true for the Amiga. I know that there has been more and more stuff appearing for the Amiga lately, but there isn't near as much music software available for it as for the ST. ===================================================================== | | | Keith Hedger : {...!}uunet!inmet!hedger hedger@inmet.inmet.com | | 'It is a sad, but beautiful world..........' | =====================================================================