brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested) (10/23/89)
I wish to get into composition, not having any formal training. I intend to buy a computer system that supports MIDI, a keyboard, MIDI, and appropriate software. Fine, now what? COMPUTER -> Amiga, Atari, MAC, PC? This is intended to be a hobby, so I have eliminated MAC as being too expensive. KEYBOARD -> I like the Roland D-5 (8 voices plus drums ~$895) SOFTWARE -> ? A couple grand for a nonprofessional home system that can do other things will be fine. Anymore than that, in terms of price, I will just use my uncle's recording studio and play... ================================================================================ | 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." | ================================================================================
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (10/24/89)
In article <504@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested) writes: | | I wish to get into composition, not having any formal training. |I intend to buy a computer system that supports MIDI, a keyboard, MIDI, |and appropriate software. Fine, now what? | |COMPUTER -> Amiga, Atari, MAC, PC? This is intended to be a hobby, so | I have eliminated MAC as being too | expensive. | |KEYBOARD -> I like the Roland D-5 (8 voices plus drums ~$895) | |SOFTWARE -> ? | |A couple grand for a nonprofessional home system that can do other things |will be fine. Anymore than that, in terms of price, I will just use my |uncle's recording studio and play... Although the choice of a computer is often as much a "religious" question as it is a factual one, the fact remains that cost & flexibility are important. Amiga is the most flexible due to its multi-tasking O/S which allows you to record midi while another task receives & sends & another plays it on the built-in synth... Amiga 500 is very cheap, a midi converter also very inexpensive - software for Amiga is competitvely priced. Many of the packages around are ported to all the machines you mention. Try Soundscape for an amazing midi/patchboard/do-everything type package... Amiga video/graphics are the best as well... Cheers, -- .... Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \**/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/C/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _/ >_ "But... but.. reality isn't *real*..." - Pippy the Zkinhead