Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ssd
From: ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sonix
Summary: Sonix for beginners.....
Message-ID: <2693@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 28 Sep 88 05:12:11 GMT
References: <4229@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <4229@louie.udel.EDU>, rsine@nswc-wo.arpa writes:
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> 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:
 
I got Sonix for just that reason - it looked like a good tool for a 
beginner (me).  Unfortunately I found that I ran into things I couldn't
do rathjerer more quickly than I had expected.  Some of these things can be
circumvented or approximated, but figuring out how to "fool" Sonix into
putting out a particular sound may be better suited to someone with more
knowledge of what sort of things might work.  So in this sense I found 
it failed me as a beginner, too.  Within it's limits, though, it is a
good tool.  I can only hope that Aegis will pull things together and get
into a position to let Mark Riley take another shot at it and polish up
a few of the rough edges. 
 
> 1.  Inability to tie notes between measures.
 This one got me almost immediately, upon trying to work a collaboarator;s
 original score into Sonix. She wasn't impressed with the results, nor was
I. 
>  
> 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.
 My biggest dissapointment with Sonix - given the way the staff looks on
 the screen, the printout is pretty tacky; and the size is all wrong for
 any serious use.  I've used it to generate little things for my 6-year
 old to practice, but it doesn't stretch much beyond that. From what I've
 heard, that area is advantage DMCS.
> Ran

 Scott Denham