EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 55, Issue 12 This issue's topics: Sequencer Software for PCs (2 messages) Sequencers Sequencing/Performing Programs (Mac) (2 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 16:50:22 GMT From: Martin Rootes Subject: Sequencer Software for PCs Dear All, I am about to migrate from my old trusty (and slowly deterioating) Atari ST to a PC set up. The very probable supplier of the Hardware has agreed to throw in software of my choice at cost price to make the deal more attractive to me. However, I've just found out the cost for my favoured software CuBase (I currently use this on the Atari) is astronomical even at cost. So what I'd like to know is:- What software is available and recommended for PC's, with facilities, look and feel as close as possible to Cubase (but price should obviously be less). The machine will be a 486-DX 33MHz with a Sound Blaster 16 card (anything that may exploit the capabilities of this card would obviously be good). A rapid response would be much appreciated as I want to clinch the deal as soon as possible. Martin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Rootes - Senior Systems Programmer/Analyst, Sheffield Hallam University Email : M.Rootes@shu.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 11:05:56 MDT From: Bob Erkamp Subject: Re: Sequencer Software for PCs In article <7398E7992@oak.shu.ac.uk>, Martin Rootes writes: >Dear All, > > I am about to migrate from my old trusty (and slowly deterioating) Atari ST >to a PC set up. The very probable supplier of the Hardware has agreed to throw >in software of my choice at cost price to make the deal more attractive to me. >However, I've just found out the cost for my favoured software CuBase (I >currently use this on the Atari) is astronomical even at cost. So what I'd like >to know is:- What software is available and recommended for PC's, with >facilities, look and feel as close as possible to Cubase (but price should >obviously be less). The machine will be a 486-DX 33MHz with a Sound Blaster 16 >card (anything that may exploit the capabilities of this card would obviously >be good). A rapid response would be much appreciated as I want to clinch the >deal as soon as possible. > > Martin. Well you will find that most equivalent titles cost more on the PC. I can never figure out why this is (I own an Atari). You might look at Cakewalk Professional but I think you will find it difficult to get an equivalent PC product to many of the excellent Atari programs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Erkamp --> It Could Happen <-- A L B E R T A R E S E A R C H erkamp@arc.ab.ca "Some people make me pro-nuclear" C O U N C I L ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 16:26:53 LCL From: Anthony Arviola Subject: Re: Sequencers I know most of you out there are using Macs, but I'm a PC user and have a question for those using PC's. I see a lot of IBM people using Cakewalk. I've never used it, but apparently it's pretty powerful. I have used Voyetra's SP Gold for quite a while, and my students catch on quickly to the features, which are pretty extensive. Am I in the dark here? I don't see anyone else using Voyetra. Maybe someone who is experienced with several other programs could give me some insight. Thanks Eric Moseley stratton@tenet.edu I used Sp gold for a long time. Cakewalk for Windows is much more powerful. You can access multiple midi/sound cards through the Windows multimedia drivers. You can store sysex and design your own sysex init strings easier than in Sp. You can even view notes in three other forms other than piano roll (standard music notation is one of the three.) You can also design custom macros that can set different variables such as velocity, pitch, etc. Sp gold is a great product now becoming a victim of more agressive programers/musicians. Good day, Tony ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 21:31:33 -0400 From: "James M. Macknik" Subject: Sequencing/Performing Programs (Mac) -=To All You Musicians Who Use Macs for Live Performance/Recording=- I have a friend who really needs to purchase a sequencing/performing program for a Macintosh, and I'm not quite sure what to suggest to him. I'd like to get a few opinions from people on the business, or people who are experienced with the best programs out there. If you could, I'd like to know what the best programs are - what features they have, and such. As well, I'd like to know you're opinion on the lowest model to use the program on without going crazy. A good program on a slow Mac can be worse than a bad one on a fast Mac. A few replies to this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Jim James M. Macknik Assistant to MicroComputer Specialists Senior - Connecticut College Department of Academic Computing New London, Connecticut Connecticut College Home (203)-439-4748 Work (203)-439-2094 BITNet: jmmac@conncoll.bitnet InterNet: jmmac@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 13:47:51 +0000 From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: Sequencing/Performing Programs (Mac) > I have a friend who really needs to purchase a >sequencing/performing program for a Macintosh There's a few sequencing programs available (I've covered the differences between Performer and Vision many times in various forums), but I don't know of anything approaching a "performing" program, unless you count Opcode MAX (which is more of a toolkit for building systems). ... or Bland-in-a-Box. Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************