From: Michael Toomim Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Do we have any music software? Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 01:36:33 -0800 Organization: Sonic,Santa Rosa CA,http://www.sonic.net Lines: 18 Message-ID: <34E6B721.9CF6AA07@usa.net> References: <87k9flu36f DOT fsf AT hasn DOT dera DOT gov DOT uk> <61llc6$lua$1 AT news DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: d53.pm.sonic.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk > 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 Not only can you use midi, but there is a lesser known format commonly called MOD. (short for amiga module) This format is completely software based- it sends the finished sound stream to the sound card. There are NUMEROUS free "trackers" (compositional software programs) and the advantages of this format is that you can supply your own samples, you don't need a hella expensive sound card, and it will sound exactly the same on any computer. It does take up additional cpu cycles, but for a 4-channel mod look at about 1.something % cpu power taken up on a 486 100. Not really much of a problem. For trackers try www.maz-sound.com, and for libs try http://www.rt66.com/~brennan/djgpp/ .