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In article <1992Aug7.142400.13342@stc.nato.int> koelman@stc.nato.int writes:
>> 
>> Not to mention that Presto is a really great program.  Even if you're
>> not into MIDI *at all*, I highly recommend checking out what this
>> app can do.  The user interface is top notch -- definitely NeXTSTEP
>> through and through.
>> 
>
>But if you are into MIDI *heavily*, it appears
>kinda toyish compared to Cubase (ST, MAC & PC), Notator (ST)
>and Vision (MAC) just to name a few.
>
>but at least there is *a* MIDI sequencer on NeXT...
>
>Ton K.
>(ST user but only for MIDI :-))
>
>--
>Ton Koelman   e-mail: koelman@stc.nato.int (NeXT Mail Welcome!)
>SHAPE Technical Centre, P.O. Box 174, 2501 CD  The Hague
>The Netherlands  (voice: 31-70-3142429, fax: 31-70-3142111)

Agreed, it is functional but why should I use it when I can
(supposedly) purchase Ardi's 'Executor' emulation.  From what
I hear it can allready run music notation on the NeXT and hopefully
in the next release they can get things fixed up enough to run all 
Mac music applications all for $80.00 (hopefully).  Then there's Quorum
but they'll take a while.  Yes, emulations are slower but maybe a cheap
one could buy us some time while we wait for Presto to get better.

I would like to see Presto work out a deal with Metaresearch (Soundworks)
and Ariel.  (According to Ariel 'Soundworks' is going to be bundelled with 
their products so a relationship appears to allready exist.)  I believe that
musicians and multi-media people need a software that can give them all the 
abilities of 'Presto' plus all the abilities of 'Soundworks' along with a 
utility that can syncronize and/or convert all the different time codes 
(MMC, MTC, SMPTE, VITC, etc.) on the fly (mathmatticaly it will be a 
challenge) so that we can make our production studios (consisting of all 
our other hardware) work cohesively and in sync.  The Mac can't do this yet 
partly because of hardware limitations but mostly because the major music 
software companies have their own idea of what an industry 
standard is and refuse to incorperate each others standards without expensive 
licensing agreements.  Its seems apparent that they would rather compete and
force users to constantly make a choice between companies rather than between 
innovative software.  Why not have the best of everything instead of 
having to wait for company xyz to catch up to the features of company abc.
NeXTstep offers us the ability to truly include whatever software abilities we
want in addition to our own custom applications.  Why not use it.
'Presto' is good because of its ability to play back material using the 
DSP56001.  Hopefully, the makers can expand the program to make it great.


maurices

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Open your mind and read--but not on a CRT
Open you heart and compose--but not on a computer
Creativity comes from the soul--not from a CPU...........but it helps
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