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Date: Sun 03-Dec-1989 23:59:45 From: Unknown Subject: Re: music was:Will the Next sell? In article <9865@zodiac.ADS.COM> jtn@ads.com (John Nelson) writes: > >I'm currently making a similar decision. I need a machine that will >support music applications. The NeXT hardware was tailor made for >musicians but wait a minute... where's the sequencers? Where's the >notation packages? Where'is the editor/librarians etc etc. >Sure, NeXT has music and sound objects that will let you write that >stuff ... but nobody has written it yet. Thus the Mac wins for >existing software and functionality even though it lags in sexy >hardware. There have been quite a few music programs ported to the NeXT already. (do you read this newgroup?) If you just want to run MIDI stuff you don't need a NeXT; stay with your toaster. If you want to make music the NeXT wins. The major problem is that the NeXT is still too damn expensive.
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