Re: Music Composer v4.00

[AJMCD4@cfs02.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Mc. Donald)]

In article <806181015.4235@contech.demon.co.uk> sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk (Soenke Behrens) writes:
>From: sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk (Soenke Behrens)
>Subject: Re: Music Composer v4.00
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 19:10:26 GMT

>AJMCD4@cfs02.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Mc. Donald) wrote:

>>In article <3uc2q9$1a7@nnrp1.primenet.com> clay1@primenet.com (Clayburn Juniel/Effective Software Solutions) writes:
>>>From: clay1@primenet.com (Clayburn Juniel/Effective Software Solutions)
>>>Subject: Music Composer v4.00
>>>Date: 16 Jul 1995 22:11:21 GMT

>>>Version 4.00 of Music Composer also includes a sheet music interface.  You can
>>>enter notes using standard sheet music notation.

>>Yes yes yes!!!  I'd be very interested....  now a wild suggestion :   Would it 
>>be possible for Music Composer to do the old breaking of the 64k instrument 
>>sound limit???  I realise that due to speed problems this is pretty unlikely, 
>>but it would make Music Composer THE ultimate GS music program...

>I've actually kicked a simple and speedy way of doing this around for a
>while ... it wouldn't be much, but it would be something. Goes something
>like this: Take two more DRAM chips, a little glue logic (probably in a
>GAL), and one annunciator. The Ensoniq can bank-switch, all you need is, as
>I said, two DRAMs plus a bit of logic that takes a command to switch the
>bank (from the annunciator) and lets the Ensoniq "know" about it.

>Now, the drawbacks are:

>- Software has to be written to support the extra 64k. W/o software
>support, those extra 64k are just so much silicon (useless).
>- It's only an extra 64k. So you have 128k now. So big deal.
>- It requires you to solder around in your beloved GS. Yuck.
>- It takes an annunciator. Couldn't think of any other good way of getting
>a signal from the GS, other than a slot card (which would be something of
>an overkill)

>Would anyone be interested in this? If so, I could try and solder around in
>my GS (if someone else supplies the software to test the thing :), and then
>release instructions to the PD.

>Cheers
>Soenke "Vaporware" Behrens

>--
>I don't know what it is he's doing, it must be art