MIDI on an Atari ST - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Feb 2002

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  From: Christopher Smith &lt;csmith(a)amdocs.com&gt;

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  Here's an odd one.  Hypothetically, if I have a
keyboard, with no
 internal sampler (a hypothetical Ensoniq ZR-76, say... for which
 I could probably never hope to find the sampler upgrade board ;), 
 and would like to use an Atari ST to do some sampling (and play
 back of samples, too -- triggered by the keyboard), is there a
 way to do it? 
You cannot transfer a sample to a non-sampling synth.  All you can send it
is MIDI and patch data.

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  I'm not familiar with Atari ST software, but I
just happen to 
 have an ST520 setting around not doing much, and wonder whether 
 it could be used for this purpose.  ISTR that STs had decent 
 MIDI capabilities for the time. 
MIDI and sampling are unrelated.

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  Otherwise, what sort of MIDI-ish stuff can be done
with this 
 machine?

 It might make a good secondary sequencer, patch editor, etc, 
 anyway... 
Sure, as long as you can obtain or write a sequencer and patch editor.  The
patch editor has to fit both the Atari *and* the target synth.

Glen
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