[bit.listserv.emusic-l] RE. Playing Live

nick@LFCS.ED.AC.UK (Nick Rothwell) (02/05/90)

>I know some people are happy with the Alesis sequencer.  Also, have
>you heard of the gear in which it always you to record and play real-time
>MIDI data on a cassette.   That should make things simple if all of your
>pieces are planned in advance.

Be wary of the MIDI<->cassette machines; although they theoretically
have enough bandwidth to carry a fair amount of MIDI data, the effective
baud-rate is apparently low enough to cause serious flamming on big
chords and so on. I don't know how they handle large SysEx dumps, for the
same reason.

		Nick.