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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DMCS..Not exactly standard.
Message-ID: <379@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 15:04:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.379
Posted: Fri Jul 10 15:04:59 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 06:16:17 EDT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: DMCS, SONIX, SMUS, music
Summary: Copyright Paul Simon...?

> Four scores which demonstrate this are available on request.
> (Graceland, Under African Skies, Homeless, Diamonds On The Soles of Her Shoes)

While I'd like to see these scores, I'd like to note that if you distribute
them you're probably guilty of copyright infringement.

> Also, you might like to try to store "Debussy 1st Arabesque" (on the DMCS
> disk) as a SMUS file and load it again. Look (and hear) the instrumentation
> at bar 95.

DMCS does a couple of things badly when it saves as SMUS. Triplets,
quintulets, and cross-bar ties vanish... and repeats aren't saved as
repeats, or duplicated if SMUS doesn't grok repeats. Also, of course,
positional information and non-song info vanishes. That I can live
with.

> And if you think about it, do you really expect that a file of 2000 bytes
> reproduces music faithfully which is stored in 20000 bytes as DMCS file?

I expect it to faithfully retain the frequency, volume, instrument, and timing
information. I don't care so much about playing styles, and I don't care
at all about text, et al.

Question: has anyone run across a better set of instruments than those
that come with DMCS. It's only Rock & roll has a good set of extra ones,
but the piano (the one I have a prticular gripe about) and other duplicated
ones are identical. Oh well, at least it's better than Music Studio.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)