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On 3 May 1998 01:01:43 , Les Dodman wrote:

>My son and daughter are now very heavy into music, they both play
>quitars. What is it I need  (hardware and software) for the Atari to
>take andvantage of it's MIDI ports? Is it possible to attach the
>quitars to the computer and enter quitar music tracks etc, can the
>computer play the quitars? Is there a speaker/amplifire system
>available for this system?

Hi Les,
With out getting into a long story about all the details the short of 
it is ... MIDI, stands for Music Instrument Digital Interfface and 
requires a midi cord to connect between some kind of software/hardware 
sequencer and a Midi player/tone generator (musical instrument). The 
midi instrument sends messages to the sequencer which stores it and 
plays it back or rather sends back messages back to the tone generator 
which ends as being heard as any type of instrument that the tone 
generator emulates whether a guitar, harmonica, piano and so on. This 
is similar to the old player pianos. Actually most of the synths or 
keyboards today can play sounds without sequencers. The other issue is 
actually what you're asking about ... playing an accoustic instrument 
and recording it. Using Computers to record back accoustic instruments 
requires special hardware/software. I'm not sure if they're  readily 
available for the 520/1040st's if at all. I use an Atari Falcon030 
with Cubase Audio Falcon software which enables me to do both, but it 
the Falcon has a DSP port required for the audio recording.

>
>Is it possible to pick up any of the stuff I need in the Toronto,
>Ontario Canada region?
>

Most music stores carry midi stuff, but not to many these days know 
much about the Atari computer. For doing Audio and Midi I'm not going 
to recommend other platforms but that is an option.

Hope you can wade thru all this,
Charlie Bechler


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