On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:36:34 GMT, 102334.12@compuserve.com (Mark
Johnson) wrote:

>jrveazey@inter.CUT_THIS..net.co (J. Richard Veazey) wrote:
>Winjammer is an actual sequencer, for creating or massaging MIDI
>files. I think BintheB is probably appropriate for those times
>when you just want to get some ideas about what MIDIs to make with a
>sequencer, playing around with rhythms and solos, sort of getting
>lulled into the repetition and predictably, just like auntie sitting
>down at the Conn over the holidays to play a workmanlike version of
>Hello Dolly, to something of polka beat.
>for a rendition every day). But if one wants to produce MIDIs that
>don't sound completely canned, I don't see how BintheB could do the
>job.

>Peace.

As a new user of midi software, especially one who is not a muso, I
have found Band In A Box is an excellent program to start with. I also
have Midisoft studio and found it a little daunting to compose from
scratch with just blank staves. I use BIAB to input the basic guitar
chords from sheet music and generate the rhythm etc in an appropriate
style. Then save it as a midi file and open it in Studio so I can see
each pat and how it is written. Then add the melody with the keyboard
and modify or add the little extras to the other parts.

I have found the percussion and rhythm sections of a midi file very
hard to do with just the keyboard and BIAB can generate these for me.

Just my 5cents worth.


cheers

Tony Jardine
(CubbyHole)
cubby@rainbow.net.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~rayton