DOC-RAM swapping with MIDI seqs (was 2 questions...)

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

In article mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune) writes...
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>Does anyone know of a program that let's you play samples via MIDI 
>control?  I mean REAL samples... big ones, like the kind you can load 
>into NoiseTracker.  I once sampled an entire Depeche Mode song, and used 
>it as an instrument.  hehehehe  But NoiseTracker doesn't support MIDI.  
>SynthLAB has AWESOME MIDI controll, but limited sample size.

	That's something worth programming! If you want to playback
MIDI files on your Apple IIgs (not connected to a synthesizer) the
only real option is synthLAB with it's seven preset instrument banks.
Unfortunately you cannot load more than one set of instrument-banks
at a time (due to 64k DOC limit) so playback is often limited. If there
was a way to swap instruments between RAM and DOC-RAM (like MOD players)
it'd improve playback quite a bit. I'm sure it would be possible to have
playback simular to expensive synthesizer keyboards out there using this
method! (afterall, the GS has the same wavetable chip used in the Mirage
synthesizer keyboard, although I'm sure even that had 128k DOC RAM). I'd
like to have percussion (drums), violins, trumpets, pianos, organs, flutes, 
bells, harps, etc, etc all available at once!

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Mitchell Spector
m_spect@pavo.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca