🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1989Oct3.165904.18761@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mshapiro@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Blind Man With A Vision) writes:
   .
   .
   .
>Buy an IBM PC clone.  That's right.  I hope you're listening Atari.
>Because you have idiots for distributors, I decided  to buy a pc.
>
>This is really sad, considering that I could have had FREE use
>of an ST.  Thos eof you who are considering buying an atari may
>want to look at the retail/support organization before you commit.
>
>BTW, for those who are interested, I'm using Cakewalk for my MIDI
>software.  So far, I'm very impressed....


It's funny, but I started with a true blue PC and Cakewalk and then
decided to buy an Atari.  I like Cakewalk and still use it all the
time, but when I needed to get a sample editor program I couldn't find
one that would work satisfactorily on my PC.  The problem was that my
PC has one of the original CGA adapters, so I'm limited to the number
of sample editor applications I can run.  (This is one of my main
beefs with the PC, there is such a profusion of graphics adapters that
it is difficult to find an application that does what you want on the
hardware you have.  Worse yet, there doesn't seem to be any emerging
defacto standard hardware configuration for PC music programs, unless
you only look at programs that have a character graphics interface.)

Faced with having to buy a new graphics adapter monitor in order to
get a decent sample editor program and, I decided to spend the money
on an Atari 1040 ST instead.  Now I have two MIDI computers, it's
great, I can run a sequencer on one while I'm using an algorithmic
music generator on another, or a sample editor or whatever.  This
setup also doubles the available software I can run.  In short, I'd
say that both the IBM PC and the Atari St are only first generation
tries at MIDI computers.  Hopefully, boxes like the NeXt or perhaps
Unix workstations will begin to take hold in the MIDI world, but first
they have the get the prices down.  At any rate, I'm still waiting to
see a really good computing platform for MIDI applications, so in the
mean time I have to make due with what I have.

							stank


US Mail: Stan Kalinowski, Tektronix, Inc., Interactive Technologies Division
         PO Box 1000, MS 61-028, Wilsonville OR 97070   Phone:(503)-685-2458
e-mail:  {ucbvax,decvax,allegra,uw-beaver}!tektronix!orca!stank
    or   stank@orca.WV.TEK.COM