Re: What Can "SynthLAB" do?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu writes...
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>We like using synthLAB just to play music with. I don't mean canned songs
>(though they're nice as well) but with a MIDI keyboard my broether picked up
>at a pawn shop and loaned us. It's fun to be able to switch instruments. My
>wife really enjoys it and it's helped spark the kids' interest in music.

        I agree, adding a MIDI compatible keyboard makes synthLAB all the
more interesting. I especially like the way key positions light up as the
musical sequence is played, by watching it carefully, I was able to learn
part of Bach's 'Tocca & Fugue in D Minor' (I can play the first five minutes
or so, from memorizing the key positions synthLAB displayed; I never even
took piano lessons :). I also enjoy using the keyboard to control synthLAB
itself, there's some great sounding instrument patches available, quite
often better sounding than what inexpensive MIDI keyboards have built-in.
In essence, synthLAB can turn the IIgs into a fantasic sounding music
synthesizer when a keyboard is connected!

        My only dislikes are the lack of space to load in instrument
patches (64K) and the seven-voice note limit, although the latter
doesn't affect live-input too much, unless your a professional piano
player. Or using synthLAB for playback of MIDI files of course...

>-John

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca