Re: music & geek question

Get yourself a MIDI sequencer program. Then you can either play into it
with a piano keyboard, or enter notes using a typewriter keyboard, or
even record something acoustically with a mike - and then have the
computer play it back for you while you do whatever else you want while
it is going. If you don't already have one, get one of the Sound
Blaster cards for you computer, and you will then have a set of samples
that will give you sounds like good instruments (not synthesized
electronically, but based on acoustic recordings of actual
instruments). And of course, have something resembling a hi-fi sound
system.

I have been using Voyetra Digital Orchestrator, but they have now
supplanted it with their "Music Write" series, three models from $30 to
$90. (I have been using Coda Finale in conjunction with it, but that
baby usually costs 600. (I got mine for 200 in a get rid of last year's
model sale.)) I have used Cakewalk, and not liked it. All other
sequencers I have tried have occasionally skipped while playing, but
the Voyetra has not, it plays metronome-steady and keeps it up.

Google up "Voyetra" to get to their site.

-BB

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