Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!mmdf From: rsine@nswc-wo.arpa Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Sonix Message-ID: <4229@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 88 14:13:26 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 38 In one of the messages I saw where a person named Meyers wrote: > I [heart] SONIX! My question is why? Are you doing something like sampling a whole piece and using Sonix to play it back? It's the only reason I can think of that someone would love Sonix. It didn't take me long to realize the shortcomings of Sonix (but it is good for the novice or beginning musician). Just to list a few of the things I can't deal with about Sonix: 1. Inability to tie notes between measures. 2. I do a lot of triplets - you ever try to do triplets with Sonix? 3. I'm not Zappa or anything but it would be nice to do a 32nd note. (don't feel bad DMCS can't keep up with it either at any reasonable tempo). 4. Only eight grand staffs. Sure the Amiga can only use four voices but if it supports MIDI why the limitation? 5. Chords, why not let me put a chord on one staff? Gee, that drives me nuts. 6. This one I'm not sure about but, I don't think you can beam. If you're gonna print the score and try to read it (or worse yet have someone else read it) the going gets tough. 7. No quins. Okay I don't use quintuplets myself but what if I did want to. 8. What about tempo changes? It's been a long time but either you can't do a tempo change or you can't change keys, in the middle of a score. One of those two is true, both are a hinderance. Well, I'm sure that's enough for now. We can discuss it more off-line, I like to talk music. I'm at rsine@nswc-wo.arpa. Ran