lazear@gateway.mitre.ORG (02/19/88)
Could someone please summarize the hardware and software available, perhaps with an indication if it is just "toy" stuff or compares in any favorable way with the stuff for the ST. Thanks. Walt (Lazear@gateway.mitre.org)
herb@hpindda.HP.COM (Herb Gellis) (02/26/88)
Not having a catalog in front of me, I will refer you to the "source". Hybrid Arts in the Los Angeles area is the only vendor to my knowledge that has ever produced/sold MIDI hardware and software for atari 8-bit. I have their MIDI box (connects to standard 8-bit daisy chain) and some software (16 Track Sequencer for 130XE, DX7 librarian/patch editor). They also had the same sequencer (with fewer features and memory) for the 48K machines. I believe there is more software (? librarian for Casio stuff?) but am not sure. I suspect they are no longer making any NEW software for the 8-bits. Although I have used the software only "lightly", it is quite full featured (the sequencer, that is). If you have more specific questions I can research same -- you will have to judge how it stacks up against ST software (including theirs). Oh yeah, they were also selling a software product similiar to the AMS(?) program, but for MIDI not the internal voices. I.e., a 3-voice "word- processor" for music, written by a group of folks in the SF Bay Area. I saw a demo of it a year or so ago. You could program nested loops of musical events, "subroutines", etc. Interesting. A programmers music machine rather than a players. . . |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| "What will I be when I grow up? | Herb Gellis | You are already grown up. | {ucbvax,...}!hplabs!hpindda!herb | You mean this is as UP as I will get?..." |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| | | David Gerrold, "When HARLIE Was One" --- ---