Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!ptsfa!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter 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 References: <769@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1717@munnari.oz> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 29 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!)