Re: Music Studio 2.0 for Apple IIgs

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

In article "Brian Richardson" <webley@emeraldweb.com> writes...

>I have a bunch of 3.5 inch disks with music I wrote many years ago on my
>Apple IIgs with Music Studio 2.0.  I no longer have the software or the
>computer, but have become interested in trying to play these.  It would
>seem I have a couple options.
> 
>1.  If anyone knows of a program which will play Music Studio 2.0 .sng
>files, I could try and get IIgs emulation working on a Mac and record the
>files.

    I very much doubt you'll get a perfect reproduction of your old
songs using a software emulator, especially considering they're all 
still in beta form. Mind you, XGS for Windows does an excellent job 
with MIDIsynth so you may get lucky (it really depends on the speed
of the machine and how well written the Ensoniq emulation routines
have been written). It's worth a try in any case, you've nothing to
lose.

>2.  If anyone has an Apple IIgs and Music Studio 2.0 (or a program which
>will import Music Studio files and sound samples) and a decent tape deck or
>a DAT recorder, I would be happy to pay you well for your time.

    Well Music Composer for the IIgs can import Music Studio format and
then export as MIDI data files. I'm not sure how well it works though,
as I've never tried this myself. Another option is to use Music Studio's
built-in MIDI support to export live to another system (I have my IIgs
and PC linked together between an Audio Animator and Roland MPU-401).
The only catch with MIDI is you'll lose the wavebanks patches used by
Music Studio, though they didn't sound that great to begin with... ;)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca