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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MIDI Software for the Amiga - a brief review of PRO Midi Soundscape
Keywords: SoundScape, MIDI, Amiga
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Date: 9 Jul 88 07:31:07 GMT
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In article <786@rover.UUCP> mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth) writes:
>I recently purchased the Mimetics PROMIDI SoundScape program for my
>Amiga to use with my SQ-80.  So far, I have used the tape deck for
> ...
>The second problem is that there are logical device names hard-coded
>into the software.  This makes it impossible to move everything but
>the key onto a hard disk, as the device name is the same as the disk
>name!  I have spent many hours trying to move all but the key track
>onto my hard disk, and still find that the libraries insist on loading
>modules from the floppy.  Yuck.  It would be real nice if some thought
>had gone into properly using the Amiga environment.  

I do not have SoundScape, but I found this from a flyer a picked up last 
year at COMDEX Cbooth:

CUSTOMIZING Soundscape Start-up

You might have noticed that Soundsape 1.4 uses the device Default: when you 
do Load and Save operations. It will load a nd save from the default : 
until change it to something else like a disk name.  When you make a Soundscape
workbench disk  a file is ceratedd in the s directory called ss-modules.
Soundscape looks in thi file for commands before loading. Two commands are e
placed there when the file is created:

assign Default: SoundScape:
assign Help: Soundscape:

Users can edit this file to change the default settings to customize their
working environment. For instance, 

assign Default: Data:
or
assign Default: df1:
[ or , I say, assing Default: dh0:SoundScape]

[Similarly the article seems to imply that one could reassing where to look
for the "soundscape.library" by  doing:

copy Soundscape: libs/soundscape.library to dh0:libs
assign libs: dh0:libs
run Soundscape:Soundscape

This is pretty much standard with any program that uses custom lobarries:
they must be in libs:

Also if you boot from the Soundscape disk, the sSoundscape:libs will be
the default libs:, until you do the above assign.  The flyer implies that
you should be able to put the executable of Sounscape in the c
directory of another disk (possible dh0:c) and executit from there]

I hope this helps.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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