On 1/2/07, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
Sort of off-topic(-ish) but I'm looking for some
midi sequencing
software to run on my Powerbook 180. Actually, since they came out in
about '92 I think they might well be on-topic. Most of the synths I
want to connect are older than that.
Anybody got any thoughts on this? I tried Midigraphy but couldn't
really get my head around it.
I have an original copy (disk&manual) of Opcode EZ-vision - this
program is an "entry-level" MIDI sequencer that worked fine on my Plus
(IIRC) and I did fire it up on my SE30 and played around with it for a
minute or two.
I also have a disk with a program called "Trax" but I honestly can't
remember much about it (time to boot up the SE30 again, I guess...)
You can have those programs if you're keen on them.
We can bring this discussion really on topic by ranting about music
(and esp. MIDI sequencing) software from the old days - even merge
this with a wholly different topic that that is just now fading 'round
here: Let's face it, early MIDI software sucked - and hooray for
hi-res full-color displays. Maybe things were better on the Atari ST
side, but all I ever used (Amiga-based) was either too simplistic to
be useful, or too complicated (at least to me (*)) to "just do stuff".
I have a copy (also original, with manual) of KCS Level II for Amiga,
and never figured out how to really use it properly.
(*) This may be due to the fact that I mostly used Trackers before
leaping into MIDI. OctaMED is a heck of a great program, and a good
enough reason to keep my Amiga up and running.
I bought KCS and built myself a MIDI interface to join the MIDI
crowd... in the end I did all my MIDI sequencing with OctaMED. Also
very painful, but at least a more familiar kind of painful :-)
Joe.