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From: rex@otto.COM (Rex Jolliff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Amiga and MIDI
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Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 07:31:03 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 28 07:31:03 1987
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Keywords: MIDI Amiga Atari ST
Summary: maybe builtin is better...
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In article <32160@auc.UUCP> rodney@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:
>Just as an example, not an endorsement:
>
>   From Skyles Electric Works: MIDI IN, 2 MIDI OUT, and MIDI THRU
>   It plugs into the RS-232 port.
>
>I think Mimetics also has a MIDI Interface with similar features and price.

hmmm... This sounds pretty scary to me.  If the interface is built into the
computer, then the software developers don't have to worry about writing
'drivers' to support all the different interfaces with 'similar features'.
However, if you have to hook the interface up as an afterthought, only the
software supplied by the interface manufacturer may be compatable.

The MIDI port is already there on the ST, so the musician who wants to become
'computerized' can just go buy an ST, and just any piece of music software, and
he's ready to go.  This guy's gonna have enough problems trying to figure out
why the program won't do the same things to his Juno-106, that it does to his
Yamaha DX-7 (?).  He really shouldn't have to worry about why the progam won't
talk to either of them (read: why the program wont talk to the interface.).

>..., I feel that the Amiga is by far a better computer, ...

Lets not start another war, okay guys?

>Rodney Ricks,
>  Systems Programmer,
>  Atlanta University Center Computation Center


(Both of them are far better computers... 8-))
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