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 Lines: 33 In article <4229@louie.udel.EDU>, rsine@nswc-wo.arpa writes: (clip, clip) > 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