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Conference napalm::commusic_v1

Title:* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:Mon Aug 29 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2852
Total number of notes:33157

1351.0. "Anyone using Roland's MESA w/IBMpc?" by SUBSYS::ORIN (Tax Return = Money to Burn) Wed May 04 1988 13:27

Is anyone using or can anyone point me to someone who is using the
Roland MESA (Music Editor Scorer Arranger) software on an IBM PC?
At the Roland clinic last night, I met and talked with Mike Mulcahy,
a professor at Worcester State College, who has a D50 and an IBM PC
and is trying to set up a teaching program for computer music there.
We looked over the manual, and all it does is describe the functions.
It doesn't give examples of how to create and edit phrases in the
phrase buffer and chain them into songs. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

dave
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1351.1MPS by RolandCHEAPR::ROACHFri May 06 1988 17:588
    I have the predecessor to MESA - MPS by Roland. It's an interesting
    product. I find that it seems to be very difficult to use for certain
    functions and it can be quite unfriendly. It does seem to work fairly
    consistently. If MESA is like MPS, there are probably better sequencer
    programs. I understand from Roland it is much different. This may
    be like comparing a PDP-11 to a VAX. (no I don't want to open a
    can of worms and talk about the relative merits of the two processors.)
    
1351.2I haven't used MESA, but...NCVAX1::ALLENTue May 10 1988 18:2814
    After initially looking at both MPS and MESA, I decided to look
    elsewhere.  It was not just because they seemed overly complex given
    the very low level of function.  Most importantly, it was because
    nobody up here had it, or knew anything about it.  This is especially
    true of the two dealer's who carried the product.  They knew nothing
    about how either MPS or MESA worked.  
    
    As mentioned in the previous note, there are certainly better
    sequencers out there; I use Sequencer Plus and have heard good things
    about 48 TRACK PC.  COPYIST is my transcriber (although I have not
    used it much, yet) and on paper, it has a lot more flexibility than
    MESA.
    
    Bill