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Akai 726d tapedeck7/23/2023 ![]() Some versions allow sophisticated editing and music manipulation functions. (703) 644-8881Ī sequencer records real-time or step-time input of MIDI music and controller data. Separate versions sold for color or monochrome systems. Limited score printout provided via a separate program. You can change tempo or MIDI instrument patches every measure with playback through MIDI or the monitor speaker. ST Music Box ($49.95) Create your own music by step-time entry of music and MIDI control data for up to eight voices across four MIDI channels. ![]() Micro-W Distributing Inc., 1342B Route 23, Butler, NJ 07405. You can't create your own song files, but there are currently more than 100 music disks available-digital encodings of piano rolls, some originally cut by Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Liberace. MIDI Magic ($39.95) This MIDI player piano uses prerecorded music disks (six songs per disk at $19.95 each). Electronic Music Publishing House, Inc., 2210 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 488, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Real-time sequencer can playback through MIDI or programmable internal synthesizer through the monitor speaker. Works with prerecorded Music disks (12 songs per disk at $19.95 each). MIDIplay ($49.00) Combination player and one-track sequencer. T's Music Software, 220 Boylston St., Suite 306, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167. Bach, chord progressions/sample riffs, and drum patterns. T sequencer format for selections from J. Drums ($29.00 each) Prerecorded music files in the Dr. Activision, Inc., 2350 Bayshore Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94039. Designed with the Casio CZ synths in mind. Over 200 song data files are available on bulletin board systems. Playback can be through MIDI and/or a programmable internal three-voice synthesizer that plays through the monitor speaker. Step-time music entry for four independent music tracks with complete score printout. Music Studio ($59.95) The definitive home music program. For a player program, availability of prerecorded music on ST disks or as BBS files is important, unless you only want to hear your own playing. These programs also may offer song playback through the ST's internal monitor speaker as well as external MIDI instruments. Some player programs let you enter musical data in step-time along with non-music control events, such as changing the synthesizer voice or the tempo. Unless stated otherwise, you can run all of these programs on any ST.Ī player program uses a data file to reproduce music on a MIDI instrument (typically a synthesizer)-sort of a digital jukebox. Each category has programs with various levels of features, and there is some overlap between them. ![]() Here we'll cover five types of MIDI software: music players, sequencers, scoring programs, librarians, and patch/sample editors. Of course, the more MIDI equipment you have (samplers, drum boxes and expanders, for example) the more involved your music can be-and the more you'll appreciate having the ST to hold it all together! ![]() To use most of this flood of MIDI software, you need only your ST and a MIDI-equipped synthesizer, such as the Yamaha DX-7 or the Casio CZ-101. is helping to spearhead this MIDI invasion by encouraging music stores to sell ST computers. With its built-in MIDI ports and low cost, the ST is widely regarded as the new "musicians' computer." ST MIDI programs range from a player-piano simulation (based on real piano rolls) to a professional 64-track sequencer system. MIDI software patch editors, librarians, sequencers and more ![]()
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