A friend of mine has an A4000 running OS3.9
What processor (e.g. 68030, 68040, 68060)?
(Reason: The ability to capture i/o streams issues)...
upon which he uses Deluxe Music 2.
Nice to see another “Deluxe Music 2” user...
However, the MIDI features of this program seem to be quite unreliable.
Tried with Bars&Pipes?
He also mentioned that Deluxe Music did a very bad job of saving a composition in MIDI format.
"Baricades Misterieuses" converted to .midi seems to be OK on my Yamaha XG50/CL Audigy 2/Sound Storm. But "Deluxe Music 2" may have issues with complicated midi imports and exports (e.g. Titanic.mid theme song)…
Deluxe Music 2 is more of a Desktop Publishing Music application than dedicated midi sequencer(this point was mentioned in the manual- see page 106).
"Even though Deluxe Music can accept music input from fairly quickly, it still not as fast as dedicated sequencer software. (read the rest)". "Deluxe Music is still an essential tool for editing, documenting, and printing your music in standard format".
There’re some limitations with Deluxe Music 2 . For example
1. Page 45, "double sharps and flats are not supported"
2. Page 46, "limit on ties; using the to tie notes in chords won’t always produce the desired playback result. The music will look right for printing purposes, but the second note in the tie may be re-attacked during play back".
3. Page 103, "The MIDI events that Deluxe Music receives in omini mode are note on and note off only". (should I continue?).
Reading page 103 may help to stem some the issues with Deluxe Music 2 and synthesizers...
Your friend is using Deluxe Music 2 beyond its design goals. Deluxe Music 2 is designed to work with dedicated sequencer software such as Music-X(page 106).
