From:	"Ethan Giordano" <lostreality AT geocities DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Do we have any music software?
Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:29:49 -0400
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free is always a relative term when it comes to software, it's really
whether you want to pay or not


George Foot wrote in message <61llc6$lua$1 AT news DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>...
>Ian Miller (itmiller AT dera DOT gov DOT uk) wrote:
>: I'm unlikely to buy myself a sound card unless I can use it for
>: composing music. Is there any music-notation-to-music-sounds
>: software available that I can build using DJGPP?
>
>I'm not aware of any good free MIDI sequencers; there are a number of good
>commercial ones. I personally use Voyetra MIDI Orchestrator Plus, which is
>sufficient but not stunningly good. I use it because it came with my sound
>card (AWE32 PnP). It's for Win95, btw, which your .signature says you use.
>A sequencer called Cakewalk is reputedly good, but as I said it's not free
>and I don't know of any free ones.
>
>If you abandon the idea of getting something that compiles with djgpp, and
>look instead for a shareware or commercial sequencer, I suggest you ask in
>one of the MIDI-oriented newsgroups for opinions on the sequencers.
>
>--
>George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
>Merton College, Oxford

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