nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) (01/06/90)
In article <10782@cadnetix.COM> larry@cadnetix.COM (Larry Peterson) writes: >A Review of Bars & Pipes [ ... ] I have the Bars and Pipes demo, and find a couple of things objectionable (BTW, I use Music-X, which is good though certainly far from perfect). I would be interested in hearing from an owner of the package if these are really problems or not. 1) No support for sysex yet. I *need* sysex to do certain varieties of patch changes on my M1R. 2) As far as I could tell, each "track" could only hole MIDI data associated with one MIDI channel. I'd like to hear I'm wrong about this one. I find it to be an unacceptable restriction. Do the top PC and Mac (ok, and Atari) packages typically work this way? In Music-X, I can put absolutely anything in a sequence. I depend on that quite a bit. 3) I was told by the Blue Ribbon Bakery (love that name, BTW) folks that when you construct an ABA format (or however you'd phrase it) that, for instance, the "A" data is *copied* to produce the second repeat. The memory-consuming aspects of that worry me. 4) I am not crazy about the "appearance" of the package. It looks very carnival-like to me. Certainly, that's purely a matter of personal taste. I guess that #'s 1 and 2 are really the killers for me right now. I certainly do give them credit for coming out with a truly *interesting* program. ________________ __________________ _________________________ //// \\// \\// \\\\ \\\\ Neil Weinstock //\\ att!cord!nsw or //\\ "Your hair is so... //// //// AT&T Bell Labs \\// nsw@cord.att.com \\// lustre-laden." - Moss \\\\ \\\\________________//\\__________________//\\_________________________////