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

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
> 	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!

Sounds cool.  I really just want to use my GS as a sampler, utilizing ALL 
my RAM.  I already have synthesizers taking care of everything else in my 
MIDIstudio, just no sampler, and I can't afford a good one right now.  
The GS would work fine with a little compression, gating, and 
processing.  I basically need a NoiseTracker with MIDI support.

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