viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (01/26/89)
In Article 6389 of rec.music.synth, oxford@Apple.COM (Wil Oxford) writes: [Exerpted from his review of the 1989 Winter NAMM show.] > This was the show for all of the Mac software houses...But perhaps > of most interest to the rec.music.synth crowd was our (Apple's) first > music software product. The net will have to forgive me for blowing > our own horn, but I think we blew away the software side of the show > with our announcement of the MIDI management tools for the Macintosh. > > [Stuff deleted.] > > .....we have answered your requests with a set of tools which not > only will allow you to send MIDI data streams from one application to > another under MultiFinder transparently to the application, BUT in > addition, allows you to run the separate applications simultaneously > under MultiFinder AND also takes care of the really hairy problem of > how to make sure that the different applications all share a common > timing environment. And best of all, it's free. > > [Lots of interesting information about the product deleted.] > > William V. Oxford, Ph.D., > System Extension Sound Group, > Apple Computer, Inc. This sounded great and I wanted to know just *how* this stuff will be distributed to the general body of users 'free'? William indicated that beta copies are out to developers now, but how will the home-based programmer get his/her hands on this stuff after it is released? (within the month, according to the info.) Sounds like a great new beginning for MIDI software, if all is true. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon W. Backstrom "Yah sure...we gonna have fun, you bet!" Computer Science Department Indiana University Internet: viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Lindley Hall 101 UUCP: {ames,rutgers,pur-ee,att}!iuvax!viking Bloomington, IN 47405 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------