mshapiro@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Blind Man With A Vision) (10/03/89)
Well, folks....I finally decided..... For those of you keeping up on the story, I was looking for MIDI s/w for a 520ST or to expand to a 1040st. Well, after much frustration, I decided to.... Buy an IBM PC clone. That's right. I hope you're listening Atari. Because you have idiots for distributors, I decided to buy a pc. This is really sad, considering that I could have had FREE use of an ST. Thos eof you who are considering buying an atari may want to look at the retail/support organization before you commit. BTW, for those who are interested, I'm using Cakewalk for my MIDI software. So far, I'm very impressed.... A really stupid tale is now at its end.
stank@anvil.WV.TEK.COM (Stan Kalinowski) (10/05/89)
In article <1989Oct3.165904.18761@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mshapiro@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Blind Man With A Vision) writes: . . . >Buy an IBM PC clone. That's right. I hope you're listening Atari. >Because you have idiots for distributors, I decided to buy a pc. > >This is really sad, considering that I could have had FREE use >of an ST. Thos eof you who are considering buying an atari may >want to look at the retail/support organization before you commit. > >BTW, for those who are interested, I'm using Cakewalk for my MIDI >software. So far, I'm very impressed.... It's funny, but I started with a true blue PC and Cakewalk and then decided to buy an Atari. I like Cakewalk and still use it all the time, but when I needed to get a sample editor program I couldn't find one that would work satisfactorily on my PC. The problem was that my PC has one of the original CGA adapters, so I'm limited to the number of sample editor applications I can run. (This is one of my main beefs with the PC, there is such a profusion of graphics adapters that it is difficult to find an application that does what you want on the hardware you have. Worse yet, there doesn't seem to be any emerging defacto standard hardware configuration for PC music programs, unless you only look at programs that have a character graphics interface.) Faced with having to buy a new graphics adapter monitor in order to get a decent sample editor program and, I decided to spend the money on an Atari 1040 ST instead. Now I have two MIDI computers, it's great, I can run a sequencer on one while I'm using an algorithmic music generator on another, or a sample editor or whatever. This setup also doubles the available software I can run. In short, I'd say that both the IBM PC and the Atari St are only first generation tries at MIDI computers. Hopefully, boxes like the NeXt or perhaps Unix workstations will begin to take hold in the MIDI world, but first they have the get the prices down. At any rate, I'm still waiting to see a really good computing platform for MIDI applications, so in the mean time I have to make due with what I have. stank US Mail: Stan Kalinowski, Tektronix, Inc., Interactive Technologies Division PO Box 1000, MS 61-028, Wilsonville OR 97070 Phone:(503)-685-2458 e-mail: {ucbvax,decvax,allegra,uw-beaver}!tektronix!orca!stank or stank@orca.WV.TEK.COM