Xref: utzoo rec.music.synth:3934 comp.sys.amiga:20924 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!noao!nud!rover!mph From: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga Subject: MIDI Software for the Amiga - a brief review of PRO Midi Soundscape Keywords: SoundScape, MIDI, Amiga Message-ID: <786@rover.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 88 22:20:45 GMT Reply-To: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az. Lines: 31 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 saving and playing sequences on the SQ. I have also used the sampled voices to play on the Amiga hardware. I'm new to this stuff, but as far as I can tell, most of the standard MIDI sequencer stuff is present and seems to work. I'll post more as I progress. The major complaint I have is that this program is horrible in two aspects: It is copy protected, and the protection is the key disk variety, but not really. If the original disk is not installed, it does not simply request the key disk, but crashes the whole system. This is inexcusable, and a good enough reason not to buy the program. 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. If you are a floppy only user, and you don't mind having a $150.00 investment riding on a single floppy, then go ahead. If, on the other hand, you have a hard disk and/or have a floppy drive that eats a disk from time to time, DO NOT buy this brain-damaged port. Mark Huth P.S.: If anyone can tell me how to get around these problems, I would be glad to change my opinion..