James Gasson wrote: >> Sam/MIDI Sequencer huh? I though it might have been something like >> that. Well then, I have a few more questions. (...)
Justin Skists wrote: > It's very good. Just be patient with it if you're used to the latest PC > based MIDI sequencers. The SAM's not very fast with the GUI, if you > know what I mean... Oh, the things you say, they're just not true! *sniff* > It comes with converters to and from .MID. Unfortunately, they're > written in BASIC. The last time I tried to convert a .MID using these > converters, the estimated time to convert was something like 45 minutes. > And since I have something like 20 720k floppies stuffed full with midi > files, it just wasn't going to do. > > But but but... I did start writing a C version (for ProDOS and MSDOS) > of the .MID to sequencer files. But I stopped in favour of writing a > decent SAM native-.MID player (which I stopped in favour of moving > houses again!). If you want, I'll finish off the converter and send > it to you. If you want it as a native SAM program, you'll probably > need to wait a lot longer! Don't bother on my account. I don't expect I will convert to/from .MID much (if at all), but I just feel safer with that backdoor available. > Where can you get a copy of SAM Sequencer? I do not know. Persona > used to sell it. I can't remember, off by hand, who wrote it - but I > can check for you. I could always copy the disk and send it to you, > but the manual might be a problem since the package is on par with > PC based systems (almost)...however, someone might complain about > the legality of all this. If it's not still being sold, then I would very much like it if you could send me a copy. (Do you mean by e-mail?, because I live in New Zealand.) Otherwise, I'm willing to post off a cheque to anyone who will accept it. So how much does (did) it cost anyway? (Hmmm, perhaps I should rephrase this...) -- James Gasson
