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Subject: Re: Amiga and MIDI
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Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 03:00:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 03:00:48 1987
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So whos usin a serial interface for a printer anyway.  What do you
do when you want to use your modem? Disconnect the printer?  Spend
a hundred bucks for a switch?  Many of the available midi interfaces
for the Amiga have pass thru for the serial port so it can be used
with a modem (obviously not at the same time).  Seems to me the question
isnt whether one system has built in midi interface or not (fifty bucks
for an interface isnt gonna break anyone whos seriously talking about
spending the money to get into midi music in a serious way).  The question
should be which machine overs the most versatility for various applications.
If we were just talking about buying a machine for music we might as
well buy a Yamaha puter.  Obviously offers some of the best internal
voice capability some fine application software.  Im sure that there
are all kinds of machines that do one thing  better than my AMI does.
I bought the machine because it does lots of things in a way thats
adequate for my needs

Mike McDaniel