Re: IIGS Music Software

[jalapeno1@mac.com (jalapeno)]

Tony Allen <allen.tony@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<3C32AFF0.66117749@sk.sympatico.ca>...
> Hello!
> 
> I have been given a IIGS (ROM3) with MIDI interface, 3.5 and 5.25 disk
> drives.  While I have quite a lot of experience with all Apple II's (II,
> II+, IIe, and IIGS) I have no software or documentation for accessing
> the Ensoniq sound chip in the IIGS.  I'd like to put the computer to
> work as a programmable metronome (capable of pre-set tempo changes
> during playback) or as a play-along "Band-in-a-Box" (using any built-in
> Ensoniqu sound patch library or MIDI out to an external synth.)
> 
> I'd be grateful for any software and info you can provide!
> 

Do a web search for "Music Composer" by Clayburn Juniel. Back in the
early-mid 1990's he was one of the more active IIGS developers of
music software. He also developed a user tool for the ensonic (I think
it was called ClaysMusicTool) for programmers.