Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!n44a!ima!inmet!rgh From: rgh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: is there a good C64 sound program? - (nf) Message-ID: <1020@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 06:12:38 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1020 Posted: Thu Mar 8 06:12:38 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 07:17:12 EST Lines: 32 #R:sri-arpa:-1700000:inmet:5800045:000:1497 inmet!rgh Mar 7 21:45:00 1984 C64 sound programs: The Feb'84 issue of Keyboard magazine reviews several music software packages for the Commodore. The one they thought most highly of is MusiCalc, from Waveform Corp., 1912 Bonita Way, Berkeley CA 94704 -- $74.95 for a minifloppy and a 65-page user's manual. "No knowledge of programming is required." The main screen of MusiCalc is divided into two sections: one pictures sliders which control the synthesizer parameters, and the other represents the 240-step sequencer. You can assign each of the Commodore's three voices a different sound, and play them all off the sequencer, or play one of the voices "live" from the keyboard, accompanied by the sequencer on the other two. Their summary: "We were expecting the Commodore to be a musical toy at best, and we were quite pleasantly surprised to see that the MusiCalc software turns it into a real musical instrument, albeit one with significant limitations." Another $30 buys MusiCalc 2 ("ScoreWriter"), which allows you to link up to print out scores and link sequences together, and they have several other add-on programs which offer various extra features. Other software reviewed in that issue: Commodore's "Music Machine" and "Music Composer", "Studio 64" from Entech, "Note Pro II" and "Note Pro Bridge" from Electronic Lab Industries, and "Musicomp" from Computer Alliance. Keyboard's address is 20605 Lazaneo, Cupertino CA 95014. Randy Hudson {harpo, decvax!cca!ima}!inmet!rgh